I will have to look up the exact quote but it was something like...of the 50 or so aims/ purpose of the group, workmanship is about number 35, indicating the importance of it in moderns quilts. And some thought that for me the exciting element is freedom of design. This is not an exact quote but the gist of it. This resulted from a conversation I had with a quilter who is also a freelance writer for the newspaper. My conversation was about another subject related to the modern movement.