Quilt Inspiration Timeline 1980's to today

Maybe Kaffe Fassett was not really the first quilt that I fell in love with.  I think the first would have been a Baltimore Quilt with appliques, not this exact quilt but one very much like it, then every once in a while, I would see something else.

1980's in NYC Baltimore Quilt circa 1849

1980's Then there was a crazy quilt circa 1885

1980's The Amish Quilt 1900-1910

1995 Then the watercolor quilts 

I buy fabric (Liberty of London)

I go to London and buy... more fabric

And the ever important

The years go by.....

1995 Postage Stamp quilt - Kaffe Fassett

1997  A new addition to the family, I buy fabric an try to make a whole cloth quilt.
I never finish.


1998 Stuck at the airport for an overseas assignment I purchase a magazine that is silly with lovely quilts (The Quilt Sampler Better Homes and Gardens) I don't know which one I like better, and am seriously considering starting a quilt despite studying for my MBA and having a full time job that involves travel.

1999 The Gee's Bend quilts (1930's - 1980's)

2001 Still travelling I find a Traditional Quiltworks magazine with the zig zag log cabin quilt pattern.

I buy fabric.

 

2012 I decide that in order to make the zig zag quilt, I should start with a simple pattern.
In Color Order, posts about a flag quilt using half rectangle triangles.... I think I can manage this.
I buy fabric.

All of this inspiration slowly percolating.
If I don't start quilting, I'm going to run out of space.

If you haven't been accosted by quilt inspiration ....

Here are a few links to sites that work for me.
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC, Quilt Collections.
Or you could google the Modern Quilt Guild Images.