Having been spending a serious amount of time quilting in the last 5 years, I have yet to find my nitch....traditional, modern, or landscaping. I am attempting all and appreciate others who dig in and do the same. Perhaps modern is my least favorite because I have not mastered the combination of colors and tone. But combining modern as a background and then overlaying a landscape sounds interesting.
As for Gee's Bend quilts, I truly love their optimism in improvising and creating not only a quilt for warmth but now days, a quilt for modern art. I commend the ladies and would do well to sit with them a full week learning their craft and filling myself with their beautiful harmonized music. What a bus tour they had on public television a few years back. Congrats to them.