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Modern Quilting

Category: <span>Modern Quilting</span>

Eye-catching modern quilt patterns showcase contemporary colors and crisp design. Often using negative space and improvisational piecing, modern quilters also adapt traditional quilt blocks – such as log cabins, stars and medallions – with curated fabrics or baskets of scraps. While modern quilting designs work for any size and use, many makers use their bold graphics to make baby quilts. Tutorials make it easy to start your next modern quilting project.

Catch some inspiration from our Modern Quilters on Create Whimsy!

Improv Quilting

Modern Quilt Artists

Homage by Jacquie Gering

Spotlight: Jacquie Gering, Modern Art Quilter

Jacquie Gering begins each quilt with an idea, but lets inspiration lead throughout her process, sometimes taking the work on unexpected, but welcome, turns. Known for her use of clean,...

American Album

Spotlight: Alexis Deise, Contemporary Quilter

As a contemporary quilter, Alexis Deise works in series to focus and dig deeper into ideas that are important to her, all while honoring the women who built an enduring...

Repelling Radial by Audrey Esarey

Spotlight: Audrey Esarey, Modern Quilter

Like many creatives, Audrey Esarey dabbled in many artful activities while growing up. But it wasn't until she went to a quilting class with a woman who would later become...

More Modern Quilting

Steep Courthouse Steps by Karen Maple

Spotlight: Karen Maple, Quilt Artist

Converting ideas into two-dimensional images drives the work of quilt artist Karen Maple. She starts with a story, often about social injustice, and creates compelling contemporary images using the traditional…
Orange Creamsicle by Michelle Wilkie

Spotlight: Michelle Wilkie, Textile Artist

Clean and simple lines along with colors that engage the viewer are bound to set textile artist Michelle Wilkie's quilts apart from the crowd. Achieving the seeming simplicity of minimalist…
Melon Sky by Ann Feitelson

Spotlight: Ann Feitelson, Quilt Artist

With formal training as a painter, quilt artist Ann Feitelson dedicated the first years of her art career to using a paintbrush, creating landscapes and still lifes with vivid, expressive…
Pulsar by Yvonne Fuchs

Spotlight Yvonne Fuchs, Modern Quilter and Designer

Most people fear rejection. Instead, Modern Quilter and Designer Yvonne Fuchs actively pursues it, pushing her skills to discover her strengths and the processes that best express her vision. The…
Alcazar Blooms by Tighe Flanagan

Spotlight: Tighe Flanagan, Quilter and Designer

Life takes interesting turns, and a stint teaching in Jordan for the Peace Corps ignited a passion for the geometric grids and patterns of Islamic art, transforming Tighe Flanagan from…
Weather Bubble Temperature Quilt by Jo Avery

Spotlight: Jo Avery, Fiber Artist

Fiber artist Jo Avery began creating with needle and thread as a child when she sewed alongside her big sister. That lit the spark for Jo, and she takes a…
Blue Confetti by Cindy Grisdela

Spotlight: Cindy Grisdela, Improv Quilt Artist

With a commitment to creativity as an attribute that develops best when nurtured and encouraged, improv quilt artist, teacher and author Cindy Grisdela works on improving her art quilting skills…
Spinning Stars by Cheryl Brickey

Spotlight: Cheryl Brickey, Classic and Modern Quilter

With the planning and precision of an engineer, classic and modern quilter Cheryl Brickey designs beginner-friendly patterns that appear complex. She enjoys the challenge of designing for those pre-cut packets,…
Maria and the Finch by Kristin Shields

Spotlight: Kristin Shields, Fiber Artist

As a child, Fiber Artist Kristin Shields dabbled in just about every craft imaginable. She tried them all, but always returned to creating with fabric, needle and thread. When she…

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