I just had a conversation about this with some of my quilting friends.
We could get into an hours long discussion again of what is a "modern" quilt, but I'll spare us both. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Here's a link to the Modern Quilt Guild - there are chapters all over the country.
As you can see from the pictures of some of the meetups, the demographics tend to skew younger than many existing guilds.
http://themodernquiltguild.com/
I think it's great that there is new blood in the quilting world.
Victoria in NYC created the Bumble Beans site, and I think she facilitates the NYC MQG meetings.
Her very cool blog is here:
http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/
Many new books have some out recently, including
http://cherryhousequilts.bigcartel.c...ct/city-quilts.
You can see that "modern" runs the gamut from using crumbs to squares on a white background.
Sometimes I don't find them all that different from traditional quilts, and sometimes I'm, like, meh.
Sometimes it's all solids, and other times it's using a collection from one of the name designers -
Denyse Schmidt, Amy Butler, Mary something, Anna something other.
Here's what comes up on a Google search for images of a "modern quilt."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...lUKyw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1272&bih=602&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Sorry for the long url - you can't use tinyurl on this board.
I think I stretched the board.
And I'll bet a lot of the initial push was because someone from the Quilt Police
told them what they were doing wasn't perfect or didn't qualify as a quilt because.....a,b,c.
And we've all seen it happen at guild meetings in some form or another.
And it's no surprise that the participants are younger, and might be coming from a different place.
But that's really irrelevant.
I would take a look around, find something that YOU feel like making, choose colors she'll want in her house and then proceed from there.
Maybe present her with 3 to choose from (if you want to be really, really nice ;-) ).
The WORST thing is to try to make something that doesn't interest you at all, either in fabric or technique.
Because then it's just torture to finish.