Need help with creating modern quilt blocks?

Need some ideas to make your next quilt look more up to date?

Explore modern quilting with designer Tula Pink and her book Tula Pink’s City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks.  Ms Pink’s designs incorporate a pallet of color using crosses, rectangles, squares, stripes, and triangles.  There is a great section titled Haiku, the blocks are a study of color and shapes.  I like this book for the unusual color combinations, a ton of ideas for random combination that work together.  The book includes three different methods for putting your newly created blocks together.  I highly recommend this book especially for those of us who suffer from the jitters anytime we think of creating with new color combinations or out of the box designs.  

A few favorite examples:

 Cool stuff.