A slightly belated welcome, I've been traveling this past week from Illinois to Michigan, after having moved from Seattle to Illinois earlier in the year.
I generally work in a more scrappy traditional look using modern techniques. In my former sewing group, one of the ladies was not really all that modern but was very improv. Some of seeing her work and that her process was different than my admittedly control freak style, but that the end results were lovely rubbed off on me.
Looking forward to seeing pictures of your work -- it can take some of us a bit of time and trial and error to figure out how to post them, but I'm hoping maybe some of your modern will also rub off on me!