Originally Posted by
charlottequilts
ha! I'm the very opposite - more into the fabrics and colors, with very simple designs. I find myself often bothered by scale, so i haven't gotten into the modern quilts with big slabs of color. I even scaled down YBR.
one thing I truly don't get, though, is why manufacturers' patterns, designed to go with a given fabric line, often require you to hack their fabrics into small, unrecognizable pieces. I'd think it would be the opposite, something to show off their fabrics.
hugs, charlotte
Charlotte, I don't get that either - but even the traditionalists have large scale prints where they get hacked up into bits. (Check Windham and Kaufman free patterns).
I think the difference is when you cut a modern print into small pieces there is such uneven color variation that the block design is sometimes lost, where in the traditional you can still follow the scheme, just with more texture/variation.
I just got some wild very modern FQ for Christmas and I am puzzling over them now. When I finish hand appliqueing my first Baltimore block maybe I'll have a look at using them in a Swoon.