As I returned home from the Modern Quilt Guild’s QuiltCon in Pasadena, I tried to focus on the trends that are emerging in the Modern Quilt movement. The one that really stands out is that quilters are using their work to voice their emotions, their beliefs, and their affirmations. In particular women are speaking out about issues, using their quilts as a way to express not abstract thoughts… but actual words.
Words, phrases and quotations are everywhere in quilts today. I have been seeing this in quilt exhibits all around the world for the last year, and I would say this QuiltCon had the most powerful and direct use of ideas being expressed directly and sometimes bluntly, through appliqued, pieced and stitched words. It is a tsunami of ideas and it cannot be repressed or blurred.
The youngest quilters are speaking out too. I am so heartened to see that QuiltCon is yet another quilt exhibition that features the work of children and teens. They are also using it as a medium to express ideas, emotions, frustrations, and sometimes to point out truths that adults don’t want to speak out loud.
I am posting photos from QuiltCon in batches, so check out my photo pages this week as I upload more images. You may or may not agree with the ideas in the quilts, but you will never forget them. These quilters are pursuing Freedom of Speech through this traditional craft, speaking for themselves, their sisters, their children…and we all have the opportunity to speak our Truth and share our thoughts with our community.
Quilts from top left, clockwise:
Feminist Quilt by Darci Read
Strong Tradition by Allison Chambers
I am Enough by Jessica Levitt
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
* The photo collage above features quilts from QuiltCon, plus fabrics currently in stock at eQuilter.com
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eQuilter Classroom & Event Calendar:
March 17 – eQuilter St Patricks Charity Sewing Day! (Please RSVP!)
April 14-15 – Lisa Walton workshop @ eQuilter Classroom
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March 1 – May 15 – Registration for ‘Love Your Mother‘ Quilt Challenge
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April 5-7 – SAQA Conference San Antonio TX
April 25-27 – Quilting Arts TV
May 18-20 – Quilt Market – Portland OR
June 27 – July 11 – Sweden
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