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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

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…
Everything by Maria Shell

Spotlight: Maria Shell, Modern Quilter

Modern quilter Maria Shell is known for improvisation, but thorough planning and adherence to design principles are the foundation of each piece of fiber art she creates. Improv based on…
Vista Toscana

Spotlight: Debbie Jeske, Modern Quilter

Like many Modern Quilters, Debbie Jeske began quilting with traditional patterns and techniques. But once she knew the "rules", she decided to experiment with breaking them and now creates quilts…
Macaroons quilt by Sarah Hibbert

Spotlight: Sarah Hibbert, Modern Quilter

Taking a cue from the Bauhaus movement, modern quilter and collage artist Sarah Hibbert designs with bold colors and striking geometrics. Like many modern quilters, Sarah began quilting classic patterns,…
Calypso Swirl

Spotlight: Rachaeldaisy Dodd, Quilt Designer

With blasts of color and pattern, award-winning Quilt Designer Rachaeldaisy Dodd makes her presence known through her art. Working with a variety of fabrics provides endless opportunities to combine color,…
Orange and peach quilt

Spotlight: Julie Burton, Quilter and Pattern Designer

Quilt designer Julie Burton admires traditional quilts, but discovered that when she made them, she took the blocks into her own design sensibilities and transformed them. The result is Julie's…
Broadcast Quilt

Spotlight: Brigit Gail Dermott, Modern Quilter

With bold color choices and an eye for geometry, Brigit Gail Dermott is making her mark in the Modern Quilting universe. Many of her designs begin with colorful paper collages…
Red orange yellow and grey quilt

Spotlight: Shelby Skumanich, Quilt Alchemist

With a background in photography and an admiration for the Gee's Bend quilters, Shelby Skumanich mixes her trained compositional eye with the freedom of improvisation. The resulting quilts are striking…
Rosy Retrospection by Emily Bellinger

Spotlight: Emily Bellinger, Contemporary Quilter

As a fine art student, Emily Bellinger encountered the perceived wall between art and craft, but believed that the disciplines have too much in common for any conflict to exist.…

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