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 ...

Collectors and curators alike prize Amish quilts for their timeless simplicity and graphic style that can also look modern. Believe it or not, early German-speaking immigrants warmed their beds with ...

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 ...

Quilting isn’t just for Grandmas anymore. A younger generation of quilters is coming up, designing fun, modern pieces. Katie Vickery is a modern-day quilter who blogs, podcasts, and now does Facebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of quilters from across the world are expected in Austin over the next few days to celebrate their contributions to a centuries-old tradition. QuiltCon 2020, the annual event ...

The seeds for the Lancaster Modern Quilt Guild were sown when Deb Fry went to a local quilt show and was shocked by what she saw. There were quilts made with 14,000 beads and quilts made from ...

Pat Van Burkleo wasn’t looking for a hobby when his mother decided she wanted to make quilts for her grandchildren. Quilting was new to her, and she wanted her son’s input on picking out fabrics and ...

Hillary Griffin, center, learns to sew a standard quilt block called "orange peels" from Valerie Luberecki during a meeting of the Modern Quilt Guild in Raleigh. Liz Condo newsobserver.com Since the ...

Dispel the myth! Quilting is not just for the older generation anymore. Tisha Nagel and Katie Burford of the Indy Modern Quilt Guild tell us modern quilting brings a fresh perspective to traditional ...

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 ...