One of my pet peeves is when there are more Traditional quilts at the meeting than there are Modern quilts. There really needs to be a separation of modern and traditional, everything in its place.
When we started the Modern Guild we wanted to separate ourselves from traditional quilting found at the other 6 or so guilds in the area; we wanted a place for the Modern quilting ideas.
I happen to do quilting in both Modern and Traditional methods but share membership in both Modern and Traditional Guilds. Sometimes the two lines cross, I do admit that. And there are times when you can "modern up" a traditional pattern quite nicely.
It really concerns me that the Modern Guild is going to swing into the typical "Traditional with Some Modern Quilts" I see in all the other guilds now.
If the work that is being done by the members is anything indicative of the show and tell last night, this is exactly the way it is going. And don't get me wrong, it was beautiful. And most of the members share Modern roots with me and have done many Modern Quilts over the years Perhaps there are new members who are unaware of what makes a Modern Quilt modern as opposed to traditional. Maybe the answer is education.
I wonder how other modern guilds deal with this issue.
Anyone out there in a Modern Guild who has seen this phenomenon and worked through it?
I understand too, that the quilts themselves have changed over the few years Modern Quilting has been around and defined. In the early days, it was easy to decide what was Modern and everything else was Traditional.
So how do we always know? I guess we need to decide that through informative education and decision making.
And deciding what we are willing to look at as Modern, Traditional and Art Quilting.
Something to think about, since I personally saw both of these quilts at QuiltCon.
