Editing Quilting (section)

=== Modern quilting ===
In the early 21st century, modern quilting became a more prominent area of quilting. Modern quilting follows a distinct aesthetic style which draws on inspiration from modern style in architecture, art, and design using traditional quilt making techniques.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Grant|first=Heather|date=September–October 2012|title=The Birth of Modern Quilting|journal=McCall's Quilting Magazine|pages=56–58}}</ref> Modern quilts are different from art quilts in that they are made to be used.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://themodernquiltguild.com/content/about-mqg|title=What is Modern Quilting?|website=The Modern Quilt Guild|access-date=2017-11-29}}</ref> Modern quilts are also influenced by the [[The Quilts of Gee's Bend|Quilters of Gee's Bend]], Amish quilts, [[Nancy Crow]], [[Denyse Schmidt]], [[Gwen Marston]], Yoshiko Jinzenji, Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Quilting with a Modern Slant|last=May|first=Rachel|publisher=Storey Publishing|year=2014|isbn=978-1-61212-063-8|location=North Adams, MA|pages=7, 14, 18, 27, 51, 59, 66}}</ref>

The Modern Quilt Guild has attempted to define modern quilting. The characteristics of a modern quilt may include: the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and alternate grid work.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Plunkett |first1=Jessica |title=What Is Modern Quilting? |url=https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/2023/04/24/what-is-modern-quilting-2/ |website=Modern Quilt Guild |date=24 April 2023}}</ref>

The Modern Quilt Guild, a non-profit corporation, with 14,000 members in more than 200 members guilds in 39 countries, fosters modern quilting via local guilds, workshops, webinars, and Quiltcon—an annual modern quilting conference and convention. The founding Modern Quilt Guild formed in October 2009 in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/about/ |website=Modern Quilt Guild}}</ref>

QuiltCon features a quilt show with 400+ quilts, quilt vendors, lectures, and quilting workshops and classes. The first QuiltCon was February 21–24, 2013 in Austin, TX.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/quiltcon/|title=QuiltCon|date=February 20, 2012}}</ref> QuiltCon 2020 was held in Austin, Texas, February 20–23, 2020 and featured 400 juried modern quilts from quilters around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quiltcon.com/about-quiltcon|title=About QuiltCon|website=QuiltCon}}</ref>