As I mentioned yesterday, I love that the Modern Quilt Movement often builds off of traditional blocks. Today we look at the Log Cabin Block challenge……

In this quilt, the purple and orange battle it out for prominence!!

I appreciated her artist statement and thought you might like to read it too……

What a fun way to make a quilt!!!

This next quilt is the epitome of a Minimal Log Cabin. In her statement, she said she wanted to deepen the saturation of the fabrics as the size increased. I think that she accomplished that!!!

I Love the textures that sprung from the quilting (quilted by Monika Jozsa).

This quilt is based on the nest of a Funnel Web Spider…..one of the deadliest spiders in Australia…..

I am not sure about the inspiration but it has an amazing perspective!!

This improv Nine-Patch is certainly colorful!!!…..

I really liked this quilt……

I love the improvisational piecing in each of the strip sections.

This quilt started off with a bunch of curved strips and grew from there…..

I loved her comment about this improv piecing process. She said it was “at times freeing and oftentimes frustrating.” Haven’t we ALL felt that way??

Well, that is all for today. Come back tomorrow and we will finish up this category!!!

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As I wandered into this category, I wondered exactly what constituted a Minimalist Quilt. The answer was waiting for me……

EXTREME SIMPLIFICATION….how is that done??

The first quilt that I saw was this one……

…and I LOVED the simplification!!!

There were two “white on white” quilts that were each interesting in their own way. The first one…..

….has great quilting to accent the circles, but when you get closer to the circles…..

…you can see that the textures are from various types of fabric. It was ingenious!!!

The next “white” quilt……

….looked like it was an incredible example of precision piecing.

BUT NO….instead it is a white fabric over a black batting so the white parts are where the seam allowances keep the batting from showing thru. Have a closer look…..

The feeling of transparency is even further emphasized in this quilt!!

I enjoy the green lines formed by improvisational piecing….

It is so stunning with the black background fabric!!

There were others that I enjoyed, but this last one was my FAVORITE…..

Now you are probably looking at this and seeing a blue circle set on four different shades of purple fabric…..

PSYCH!!!!!

The purple background fabric is all ONE fabric and the color changes are made with the quilting threads. Look closely at this zoom-in photo…..

When it is up this close, you can’t see the color change but when you step away…..it is ASTOUNDING!!!

I definitely consider this to be Minimalisn at its best!!!

Keeping coming back for more excitement from QuiltCon!!

If you are excited by all of these straight-line quilting designs, you might be interested in this…..

Under the Quilt Con rules, a “Small Quilt” is judged ONLY by its size. It doesn’t matter what technique is used. As long as the perimeter of the quilt is less than 119 inches, it can go into the category.

Here are a few of my favorites…..

This first one was made of 1/4-inch hexagons…..YES….1/4-inch……Yikes…..

She started this on March 18, 2020….the first day of the COVID crisis!! Each set of rows represents one month….the top row represents the low temperature and the bottom is the high for the day.

The blocks are 3-inch modified log cabin blocks. It was very effective!!!

Now, if you really don’t like burying thread tails, you might try this……

The thread tails are covered with Tulle and then quilted into the design…..

Such fun!!!

I truly loved the quilting on this next quilt…..

In her artist statement, she said that the quilting was inspired by several stained glass windows that had various sections in them. She chose to fill these sections with quilting rather than glass!!!

This is some amazing quilting.

And, look at the cut-outs at the base of each of the geese columns/rows.

This blue and green strip pieced quilt zooms in on the narrowing neck of a wicker basket……

I love the idea of taking an object, focusing on a certain aspect of it, and using that to design a quilt.

Oh great…something else to add to the list of quilts that I want to make!!!

This quilt was interesting too…..

I love the way that the waves are formed without there being a single curvy line!!! She achieved this by creating two panels of wedge shapes arranged into color gradients and then interleaved them together to make this great wave!!!

This was the 2nd place winner…..

It had improvisational piecing, perfect matchstick quilting, and bits of hand stitching thrown in for good measure.

The first-place quilt was this one……

Once again, it featured improvisational piecing, impeccable matchstick quilting, and bits of handwork.

One of the things that I love about matchstick quilting is the ridges that form when you leave a bit larger space between SOME of the quilting rows.

Come back tomorrow and we will look at more from QuiltCon!!!