QuiltCon is the inaugural conference and quilt show of the Modern Quilt Guild.
QuiltCon is sponsoring a Quilt Block Challenge curated by Elizabeth Hartman of Oh, Fransson!
The challenge guidelines require using colors consistent with the QuiltCon logo to create a quilt block that reflects what modern quilting means to you.
Elizabeth Hartman selected a stack of Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton colors consistent with the logo and wrote a great blog post on choosing colors and fabrics for making your block. We’ve created a Pink Chalk Fabrics QuiltCon stack based on her color selections.
And, of course, since the color matching was in full swing, Diana created 4 new color stacks inspired by the QuiltCon palette!
Entries to the Quilt Block Challenge are being accepted now through August 15.
An impressive lineup of workshop teachers is beginning to form including Denyse Schmidt (she’ll also be the keynote speaker), Malka Dubrawsky, Elizabeth Hartman, Anna Maria Horner, and Weeks Ringle & Bill Kerr.
Entries for the Quilt Show will be accepted July 1 through October 31. Registration for the conference begins on August 30th.
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I haven’t done a giveaway FOREVER. (I also haven’t actually selected winners for our last two giveaways so please bear with me as I get caught up, I see light at the end of the tunnel!)
Up for grabs are 4 QuiltCon Solids Stacks. Leave a comment stating what modern quilting means to you. I’ll draw winners on Monday. Winner’s Announced
Happy Weekend! xo Kathy
Kathy Mack
Carrie + Diana
Hmm, modern quilting — I think it’s gonna be quilting with a social media element to it. I’d never get my inspiration if I didn’t have the resources available to me online that I do now!
Modern quilting is fresh ideas making use of the past for inspiration. Updating with graphic patterns, bold color choices, and use of solids as a strong design element.
I love the fabrics on the cake plate! Just moved and wondering whre to store my cake plates. Thank your for the solution. I am going to serve up some fat quarters on the cake plates in my sewing room. Inspiration in all kinds and forms. Thank You!
I’d love to win one of these. I already have several block ideas in mind but no fabric selections yet.
Modern quilting is the use of bright bold fabrics. And the use of bright solids in the negative spaces. And we are inspired by the older traditional quilts that we put a new spin on. Thanks for a chance to win!
modern quilting to me is something extremely easy linear and colourful, if you quilt only with solid and vivid colours it’s less country stile to me ^^)
To me, modern quilting = freedom. Wonkiness is celebrated; free-form piecing is encouraged and there are very few “rules”. LOVE all the colors in your stacks–so, so pretty!
Modern quilting to me means quilting for fun and following as few rules as possible. Modern quilting is about problem solving and figuring it out, even if you end up with something different than you intended.
Looks like I popped in just in time!
I love your color stacks!
I really can’t connect with the term ‘modern quilting.’ I feel like quilting is quilting, no matter what you make. It’s like art…all artists create, but the things they create are different. But I do have an opinion on modern quilts. For me they’re fresh, crisp and often bold.
Modern quilting involves improvisation, reworking of the old blocks, negative space, lots of time on the internet highway visiting blogs and quilt shops, new friendships full of encouragement.
To me, modern quilting means going for it and not having to follow traditional quilting rules. It makes quilting more of an art form than functional(equally important).
To me, modern quilting has two elements. The first is visual, and I usually associate it with more “white space”, although that space is not always white. The second has to do with a less “fussy” feeling, the sense that passion drove the design and creation of the quilt.
Now I’m going to race to the beginning and see what everyone else thinks. Oh, how I love the Pink Chalk community.
Modern quilting, to me, is the opportunity to bring a strong, graphic, colorful interpretation to the centuries-old tradition of quiltmaking.
Thanks for a giveaway chance !
Modern quilting to me is being on the internet and learning to quilt online , as I did . I don’t know a lot of quilting history ; I consider ‘modern’ quilting machine stitching rather than hand stitching ! The ‘modern’ stuff I’ve seen is bright colors with awesome free motion quilting . I live around some Amish communities and have always seen a lot of solids with dark backgrounds , so I don’t consider solids ‘modern’ . I guess I really don’t know what it is !!!
I struggle to define modern quilting. I am split into two with it – one is the idea of quilting in such a huge community because of social media and the internet, and the other is the design/color/actual quilting done, the evolving of sewing. I think of modern quilting in the second sense as a style of quilting. But I like the first definition for myself because I am not sure of my style yet.
I think that modern quilting is free to try all traditional methods in new ways, with many different colors used that once were considered not to work together.
Is this Modern Quilting conference open to the public? If so, how do I get more information?
Thank you!