{"id":4665,"date":"2017-02-01T22:54:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2017-02-01T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:54:41","slug":"meet-latifah-saafir-modern-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/meet-latifah-saafir-modern-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Latifah Saafir And Modern Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tLatifah Saafir<\/a>, modern quilter, pattern designer, and founder of the Modern Quilt Guild.\"\"<\/a>\nHer special presentation was held Tuesday evening, January 17th at the Ontario Museum of History and Art in conjunction with the exhibit being held there, Modern Quilts Redesigning Traditions. \u00a0<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\nThe lecture began with Latifah giving a brief history on how the modern quilting movement began in 1998 when it became \u201ccool\u201d to use solid fabrics again. Quilters Gwen Marston and Nancy Crow\"\"<\/a>\nalong with the Quilters of Gee’s Bend<\/a> and Yoshiko Jinzenji,<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\nwere some of the artists that championed the return to using solid fabrics. The first modern quilt book was published by Weeks Ringle<\/a> and her husband Bill Kerr also around 1998.\"\"<\/a>\nLatifah shared that she \u201calways loved quilts.\u201d While she learned how to quilt from her mother when she was 6 years old, when Latifah got her first sewing machine at age 10, she sewed mostly garments. At age 15, she checked out quilting books from the library. Their designs were basically the traditional, Amish quilt kind. In 2008, Latifah saw her first modern quilt and said to herself, \u201cI can do this.\u201d\nAbout the same time Latifah made her first modern quilt, the modern quilting community was also getting started. First, an informal Flickr<\/a> Group was formed in 2008 to share digital images of the work being created by modern quilters. It was an instant hit among younger quilters. Then, after the Long Beach Quilt Show in 2009, Latifah started the Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild with 25 members.\"\"<\/a>\nOther areas around the world wanted to duplicate what the LAMQG started and today there are over 100 guilds worldwide.\nIt\u2019s been almost 10 years since the modern quilting movement began. When asked where does Latifah see the future of modern quilting going, she replied, \u201cWho knows–!!\u201d One thing is for sure: the interest and skill level in modern quilting continues to increase.\nJan has been a modern quilter for 7 years and belongs to the Temecula Valley Modern Quilt Guild. She was attracted to modern quilting because it is \u201cnon-judgmental.\u201d \u00a0She is self-taught, doesn\u2019t use a pattern and just \u201cfigures things out.\u201d\n[caption id=\"attachment_4666\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]\"\"<\/a> (ltor) Sharon and Jan[\/caption]\nSharon came from Los Angeles and has been quilting just 6 months.\u00a0She takes classes with Jan. She started quilting after she retired from nursing and has made one baby quilt. She heard about the lecture through Road\u2019s social media and was interested in learning more about modern quilting.\"\"<\/a>\nDebbie, Maria, and Pat all belong to the Inland Empire Modern Quilt Guild. The guild was started in September 2016 by a group of friends and now has 20 members. They came to the lecture and trunk show because they are big fans of Latifah.\nEven long-time quilters are turning to modern quilting. Denise lives in Orange County, California and has been quilting for over 30 years. She considered herself a \u201ctraditional, Quilt-in-a-Day quilter\u201d and fell into modern quilting because she wanted to do something \u201cdifferent, new, refreshing and colorful.\u201d\n[caption id=\"attachment_4676\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]\"\"<\/a> Latifah’s signature “Glam Clam”– clam shells blown up.[\/caption]\nLatifah hopes modern quilting will continue to inspire quilters to take ownership for their work and most of all, that it will inspire a new generation of young sewers.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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