While reading all of your comments, I was thinking of the pile of old quilting magazines I have been looking though lately. Last summer I got a box, at a garage sale, of 1980-2000 quilt magazines. I find I flip through those pictures thinking I don't really like what they considered "modern". The magazines also had plenty of more traditional blocks that are still being used regularly in today's quilts. Each "era" will produce their own unique style of quilt. Someday, in the future, we will look back on today's "modern" quilts and say they were unique in their own way to that period.