{"id":1776,"date":"2014-05-02T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2014-05-02T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T23:57:34","slug":"up-close-traditional-vs-modern-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/up-close-traditional-vs-modern-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close: Traditional vs. Modern Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">What makes a quilt <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">modern<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">? Are there aspects of traditional quilting found in the modern quilt movement? Can modern and traditional quilters coexist?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who better to ask to compare modern vs. traditional quilting than modern quilter, <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/road-2014-faculty-spotlight-meet-jacquelyn-gering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacquie Gering<\/a>. Jacquie taught classes at Road 2014 and served as one of the judges for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/what-is-modern-quilting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern Quilt category<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacquie came in to quilting following a career in education. She taught elementary through high school, where reading was her specialty. She was also a high school principal. It was while researching the ladies of Gee\u2019s Bend that quilts first appealed to her. From reading the ladies\u2019 books, hearing them speak and sing, she felt their \u201cspirit\u201d and wanted to be a part of the quilting world. That was 6 years ago. Since that time, she has developed a sense for modern quilting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacquie believes modern quilting is just traditional quilting mixed up. They differ by how they use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clean Lines<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/up-close-traditional-vs-modern-quilting\/attachment\/clean-lines\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1785\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/clean-lines.jpg\" alt=\"clean lines\" width=\"355\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<strong>Negative Space<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/winning-modern-quilts\/attachment\/best-use-of-negative-design\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1735\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Best-Use-of-Negative-Design-780x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Best Use of Negative Design\" width=\"565\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Grid Work<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/winning-modern-quilts\/attachment\/modern-piecing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1736\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modern-Piecing-1024x906.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Piecing\" width=\"633\" height=\"561\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional quilting aims for <b>balance <\/b>while modern quilting gives the <i>feeling<\/i> of balance. There is definite <b>structure <\/b>to traditional quilting with its rows and columns. Modern quilting has structure that is hidden. It is disguised through its asymmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Jacquie differentiates the two styles by saying with modern quilting, \u201cimperfect is good.\u201d Her goal as a modern quilter is to be \u201cperfectly imperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever you preference, traditional or modern, there is a place for both techniques in the quilting world.<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,27,32],"tags":[777,1318],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-2014","category-road-to-california","tag-modern-quilting","tag-traditional-quilting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Modern-Piecing.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}