50 amazing quilts on a theme

Quilter Luke Haynes first told us about his ‘Log Cabins of Donald Judd,’ exhibition plans almost six months ago when we featured him. Making 50, 90 inch square original quilts is not an easy task and we’re thrilled to say he’s done it!

The log cabin is the first repeatable quilt block and the theme was inspired by the Donald Judd installation in Marfa at the Chinati foundation ‘100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-1986.’ “The basic idea is that I have made 50 quilts iterations of the ‘log cabin’. All different variations with the same language, all red centres with white and black fabric,” Luke explains. “All the fabric is used textiles. so the patterns and language of the details are dictated by the range of ‘black,’ ‘white’ or ‘red’ that I have access to in the form of used garment/textiles. But will all read as graphic compositions in black and white.”

The exhibition has just finished at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles in L.A but here are some images. Also the quilts are for sale through Luke. The plan is to take the exhibition around the world so we’ll keep you posted. Happy quilting.