Favorites - Modern

There are beginning to be more modern quilts at the shows. Here are some of my favourites from the AQS in Phoenix.

Just Passing Through in Plum and Periwinkle

by Nancy Scott

No, the colour really did not come through correctly.  

The background quilting was gorgeous; lots of feathers and some pebbles, etc.

Moons Over Bars

by Susan Gerrity

Again, gorgeous quilting in the negative spaces.  Lines and echoed circles. 

 Between the horizontal lines are strips of very small McTavishing.  Wow!!

Modern Mirage

by Lee Heinrich

Very geometric quilting in negative space.

Buckles and Belts

by Linda Hungerford

Amazing background quilting featuring - paisleys, wishbone and lines 

to continue the buckles and belts in the negative space.

Upland

by Dianne Firth from Australia

Upland was inspired by the way water, captured in dams above the coastal plain, takes on the 

colors of the earth as fine particles of clay hang in suspension in the water.

Cycles 2

by Leanne Chahley from Edmonton, Alberta

The colours reflect sun-bleached sand, sky, and the ocean at the beach, while the modern, 

industrial, matchstick quilting evokes the weathered driftwood and rock textures.

Quilteenies 3: Going Ape

by Carol Steuer

This quilt plays with negative and positive space.  

Each shape is individually quilted and attached to a hand-painted border.

Curves of Color

by Charlotte Noll

This asymmetrical, intersecting, improvisational quilt features pieced curves with gray as the neutral.  

It was raw-edge appliqued and quilted using repeating double line quilting curves.

Lotsa Gray - Bit O'Orange

by Ellen Palmer

The quilting in the gray repeats a few squares and lots of feathers.

Lily Pad

by Pat Van Oordt and Cory Allender

I'm sorry the detail is not evident from this picture.  Lots of detailed quilting and threadplay.  Awesome!

A Walk Around the Block

by Claire Victor

This quilt shows the quilters fascination for tumbling blocks.  She says the border was very challenging.  

Spinner

by Marlene Oddie

Traditional blocks at the end of the wind-turbine blade give a new twist to traditional patterns.

The quilting in the gray area creates a wind effect.