Modern Quilt Patterns
Modern quilts come out of the modern quilting movement, which puts emphasis on simple, bold, abstract designs with bright colors and contemporary commercial fabrics, often including a large field of unpieced fabric that shows off the quilt stitching. Many modern quilt patterns are abstractions of traditional quilt blocks; these are referred to as modern patchwork.
I have tried hand stitching of all kinds. Anything to do with needles and thread has been in my project basket at one time or another. But every so often I discover something new.
The back of a patchwork quilt block made with English paper piecing, using comics for the paper.
Several years ago I was helping a friend clean out her neighbors sewing room and we came across a beautiful piece of hand piecing. It was a patchwork block from a Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt and it captured my heart immediately. Not only was it pretty and colorful, it…
