Improvisation In Modern Quilts--Shashari Kiburi

There is a short video on this subject on the Modern Quilt Guild's website that is well worth watching. It is almost a tangent but the artist dyes some of her fabric, and just looking through her website and listening to the talk made me want to get back into dying a bit. This is both educational on the subject of improv quilting as well as a demonstration of her process, so if you are someone who learns by watching and doing rather than by reading, yet another reason to check this out. The characteristics that are important to her in her own work are: * Wonky * Bold Colors * Use of Negative Space * Change in Scale * Use What You Have And a corallary is to Do What You Know. She favors half square triangles and Drunkard's Path, which are two things that I favor as well. She lays things out, then decides to slash a block and insert something into it, which is both bold and less initimidating, because you start with something traditional and then you literally cut it up to make something else.