I can't remember who it was in this thread who made a distinction between modern and contemporary, but you're dead right. I'd probably call my style contemporary if I had to call it something. Modern quilting is a specific movement, and it does not by any means cover all of contemporary quilting. It doesn't even cover most of it. I do sometimes admire "modern" quilts, but it's not the sort of thing I'd make. For starters, it tends to rely heavily on retro fabrics, using patterns from the sixties with brighter colours, and that's not really my style. I don't want to do large areas in white, partly for aesthetic reasons and partly because I doubt its practicality, and I personally don't really like light grey.
I draw from a wide variety of styles, including traditional American (while American quilting dominates traditional quilting, it is definitely not the only tradition out there), various contemporary styles, other traditions. For instance, the baby quilt I'm working on at the moment is drawing from Indian textiles and Welsh quilts.
https://www.threadbias.com/projects/...-baby-quilt--2 I'm planning to make something based on Islamic geomtric designs at some point, which will involve piecing a lot of odd angles and messing about with mirrors for kaleidoscope effects.
For the people who fancy trying modern quilting but can't do free-motion quilting, I've also seen quite a lot of quilting in that style done with hand quilting, the big stitch quilting style with large stitches and thicker thread. It can look very attractive, and is quicker and easier to do. I've taken to using perle #8 thread for a variety of reasons: if I'm going to put all that work into quilting, I want it to be nicely visible, and you get a far better range of colours. However, I haven't been able to retrain myself to do larger stitches yet, and the biggest I've managed is 8 stitches to the inch (topside)! I'm going to have to practice for the next quilt, because I want more of a sashiko look with the stitch size.
I really like the way that quilters today feel free to mix and match styles. My last quilt was a traditional Welsh wholecloth, only I used perle #8 thread, a bright marigold colour in a soft sponge effect for the top, binding (Welsh quilts usually have a knife edge), and a wholly untraditional Valori Wells print of owls on flannel for the backing. I've done a few contemporary variations on log cabins, they're fun to play with. American patchwork is an amazing tradition to draw from, there's so much of it, but I don't like the old-fashioned fabrics and I certainly don't like traditional American quilting. Whereas Welsh quilting really does it for me, and adapts well to both traditional and contemporary quilt styles. So many possibilities...