I predict...

[telophase]

...that the last quarter of 2010 is going to see quilting show up on the radar as the trendy fabric art du jour, as I went to look up quilting on Amazon and the VAST MAJORITY of the books I found are being published in September 2010-January 2011.

I'll probably be totally over it by then.

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[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I think you're right- knit/crochet is definitely fading out, which I don't mind so much as long as my local shops stay afloat.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The annoying part is that there's several books that I'd like to check out ... which are all not yet published. There's one that's just been published, but B&N doesn't have it in a store close to me, according to the online search, and Borders' website appears to be down right now, so I can't check there.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of one-yard project books now that look fun, too. I keep thinking I should finally outsmart my sewing machine.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I was going to predict that after that uptick in popularity we'd see the first Team Edward quilt around the end of the year. But I'm too late.

http://cdn2.team-twilight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Minas-Edward-set-006.JPG (http://cdn2.team-twilight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Minas-Edward-set-006.JPG)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am not surprised.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Please god, let the era of Ugly Quilts be over soon.

For the past two decades, so much of contemporary quiltmaking has been steered less by a coherent eye for design so much as it has been as a reaction to traditional style. As a result, there are quilts made in eye-watering colors of clashing prints with random shit sewn to it.

I'd love to see some of the etsy/maker/hipster aesthetic applied to modern quilts, so you'd have something that wasn't tied to rigid pattern, but was actually pleasant to look at.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

While I don't particularly like abstract quilts, I ahve hopes for this book (http://www.amazon.com/Quilting-Line-Color-Techniques-Abstract/dp/1596683333/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3A2B5POVT9QOF&colid=3A5G879BL0LFP), when it comes out.

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

Quilting seems to be rapidly becoming trendy here in Britain lately, possibly because of the very popular quilt show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The book that went with the show is very good on the history of British quilts, which isn't at all well documented. I'm going to be avoiding that section of Amazon for a while though - my wishlist is already eight pages long!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*checks the V&A website* Darn, leaving long before I get there in October. :)

I limited the books to 4 or 5 items on my wishlist. XD

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

All of these random bursts of popularity for traditional crafts are really rather odd from the perspective of someone who grew up around them. Personally, I'm waiting for a resurgence of some of the papercrafts, like quilling and scherenschnitte. They lack the utility of most of the textile crafts, but the tools and supplies also take up less space.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My mom's a weaver, so it feels a bit odd to me, too. :D AND I remember the handcrafts of the 70s. Like macrame.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Ooh, macrame. As an 80s baby, that really should have been before my time, but there were a couple of women in my parents' church that never left the 70s and dragged them into the summer camp craft classes. We did that and Christmas ornaments from plastic canvas and yarn, and pipe cleaners and beads. (Yes, in the summer. I guess they were trying to teach us to plan ahead?)