Here are the Inspiration Quilts for the “How New is Modern?” Show
- Minimal Color Palate and Piecing
- Asymmetrical Design
- Lots of negative space
- Uses versatile Half Square Triangle Blocks to construct Broken Dishes block
- Detailed quilting in negative spaces
- Red and White palate makes for strong contrast and graphic visual impact
- Slightly off piecing gives it very different feeling than if it were perfectly executed
- Rob Peter to Pay Paul Block uses curved piecing
- Quilting mimics and highlights piecing
- Atypical Materials, Pieced from velvet scraps, lots of texture
- Improvisational piecing
- Verticality of piecing vaguely reminiscent of Chinese Coins quilt
- Deep, Rich Color Palate dominated by reds and golds with pops of bright colors
Log Cabin
- Utilizes foundation/paper piecing
- Scrap quilt madewith value play
- Interesting first and secondary patterning created from piecing
- Limited, mostly neutral color palate with pop of brighter colors
- Red used not in the centers of the cabins but on the first and second logs