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 ...

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 ...

St. Louis Modern Guild Representative Susan Muszynski and owner of Warm N Cozy Quilting Sadie Neuman stop by the studios to share details of what attendees can expect at this weekend’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fiber artists showing their creations in the “Beyond the Canvas” exhibit this month have found a way to express themselves as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...