Posted by karikazo on 2005-09-13 12:10:14
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ohhh, I'm so glad to see quilting mentioned when I happened to pop in here for the first time in ages.
I'm slowly moving from traditional-style to artsy-style quilts. I adore it. I am a member of my local quilt guild and while some of the members and workshops are very un-hip and not to my taste, we also have more artistic members and some workshops about exciting new techniques. It's possible to make very hip or artistic quilts, but they have very little presence in the media, compared to hip knitting or other crafts.
Here's some things I like to look at. Sorry I am too lazy to make pretty links.
http://www.angelamoll.com/secretdiary.html Love these "secret diary" art quilts.
http://weewonderfuls.typepad.com/ Wee Wonderfuls often has links to great quilt things, or her own nice quilts
http://www.angrychicken.typepad.com/ ditto Angry Chicken--she features a quilt-related thing every Monday, and she sells "small quilts" in her online shop.
http://www.lisacall.com/index.html Lisa Call makes really beautiful art quilts and she also has a blog: http://blog.lisacall.com/
http://www.ruthbmcdowell.com/ Ruth McDowell's art quilts are fantastic, as are her daughter's--I think her daughter used to post on this site or supernaturale, can't remember which one.
http://www.janesassaman.com/ Another fav art quilter, Jane Sassaman, who has so much energy in her work.
http://www.pamrubert.com/ Here's one more art quilter, who makes cartoony-style quilts that are very charming. She also has a nice blog: http://www.pamdora.com/
I don't have a link but I recall someone on craftster once had made a Super Mario Brothers quilt that was very cool.
ETA: I almost forgot Fun Quilts, one of my favorite sources of inspiration--http://www.funquilts.com/ They have a great new book out called The Modern Quilt that has very hip designs.
I don't have much advice about putting on the binding (if that's what you were talking about)--I'm not very good at that yet myself. Each book or website has slightly different instructions; I found that the instructions in The Modern Quilt (the book I just mentioned above) helped me a lot. It gets better with practice!
