Ghostrider -- was not trying to be definitive but rather broad strokes tendencies as I've observed them. I think that looking through a flickr stream of Modern Quilts gives a good sense of the variety, but also of the prevailing flavor. And I'll stand by my comment about batiks being a contemporary choice, but largely shunned by modern quilters. Doubtless someone will pull up tons of examples of modern batik quilts to prove me wrong. But it's my observation that batiks are not used by the modern quilters who I follow.