{"id":652,"date":"2013-04-04T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-04-04T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:00:04","slug":"why-modern-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/why-modern-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Modern Quilting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Modern Quilting could be found all over Road this year. There were vendors, classes, fabrics and materials all dealing with the modern quilting movement. What is a modern quilt you ask? Emily Cier, one of our modern quilting instructors, described what it\u00a0isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 \u201cModern quilts are not easy, sloppy or crooked. Rather, they require good craftsmanship in putting together quilt blocks made of solid colors.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-654\" alt=\"modern\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/modern.jpg\" width=\"858\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>At the lecture, <i>Thoroughly Modern Quilting,\u201d <\/i>attendees were asked, \u201cWhy did you attend this event? Spotted in the class were exhibit curator Helen Remick and her friend of 53 years, Melissa. They have known each other since they were college roommates at UC Davis. Both quilters, Melissa came to Road to see <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2SAHL-ap\">Helen\u2019s exhibit<\/a>. Together, they wanted to learn more about modern quilting. Most attendees were after the same thing as Helen and Melissa. In addition, they offered these comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0been a quilter for 30 years and am looking for a new look.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am a displaced quilter. The modern designs make me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI like how anything goes with modern quilting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMy 28 year old daughter told me about these kinds of quilts.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-655\" alt=\"modern_quilts_img_1581\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/modern_quilts_img_1581.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI wanted to see first-hand where quilting was going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOur age wants more modern fabrics and looks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI love the designs and enjoy the night time activities at Road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am looking for new designs and was drawn to the angular quilting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Whether someone was an experienced quilter or a newbie, modern quilting was a fun technique to check out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about modern quilting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><i>\u00a0 <\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/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":0,"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":[22,26,32],"tags":[777,1103],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-2013","category-road-to-california","tag-modern-quilting","tag-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}