When Alissa Haight Carlton and Latifah Saafir organized the first Modern Quilt Guild meeting in Silver Lake in October 2009, they hoped they would find a few other like-minded quilters who wanted to ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lauren Hunt is quick to point out that her quilts aren’t like your grandmother’s. And her quilting skills weren’t passed down through her family, either. The 27-year-old refers to a ...

The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio’s Education Program is the recipient of the “Focal Point” quilt, the Great Lakes Bay Modern Quilt Guild’s 2017 QuiltCon Charity Challenge quilt. To highlight this ...

Fabrics are lighter, brighter and bigger prints, with a lot of architectural or irregular florals, said Elaine Johnson, who owns Harper's Fabric and Quilt Co. in Overland Park, Kan. Also popular are ...

Quilting is often a considered a traditional craft, but a new generation of modern quilters are bringing a decidedly contemporary flair to the art. Milwaukee's Lee Heinrich and Chicago's Faith Jones ...

Today's quilters aren't afraid to think outside the boxes of their grandmothers' designs. Forget about muted pastels and dainty calico prints. Instead, modern quilters go big and they go bold. This ...

PASADENA, Calif. — “SHUT UP and Listen,” proclaims a quilt in bold, red letters. It shows a muted American flag, hung upside down on its phantom flagpole. The aggressive “SHUT UP” is rendered in ...

Ahead of their first show, the Lake Superior Modern Quilt Guild says we can think of their work as an evolution of tradition quilting. Member of the group Jen Gustafson explains, “Traditional quilting ...

QuiltCon is an international gathering of quilters who have taken the age-old tradition and given it a modern aesthetic for today's home. It is the only modern quilt show and conference of its kind ...

This isn't your grandmother's "Log Cabin" quilt, and the Baton Rouge Modern Quilt Guild is OK with that. In fact, guild members are thrilled with the quilt's improvisational design, because it's been ...

When an exhibition of minimalist, hand-stitched quilts from Gee’s Bend, Ala., went on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002, the collection of 60 quilts by former slaves and their ...