This quilt is named Autumn Poppies. I made it in an international quilt mystery series of classes. That month, the country was Turkey. The pattern name was Poppy Fields. Since I made it in autumn colors (orange, brown, and tan), I named the quilt Autumn Poppies. After I entered it, I took a closer look at it, and decided that, even for me the piecing isn't very good, so I withdrew it from the show. So much for good intentions. The next quilt I named Dreaming of Sunflowers.
It was the first quilt I made using paper piecing. I took a class, taught by Barbara Dole, who helped us interpret the directions. I still wish I had made all the centers black, but I didn't. I really like this quilt. 
This next quilt is actually larger than the sunflower quilt. I made this for Daniel, who wanted a patriotic quilt. I called this quilt Back in the USA 2009, since I finished it in time for his return from his second tour of duty in Iraq. The pattern is called Carrie Nation, which I thought was appropriate, since soldiers in Iraq are not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages.
This last quilt was made in a class with a pattern called Magical Slice and Dice. It's hard to tell, because I used a bad fabric between the squares, but all of the blocks are on-point. The interesting thing about this pattern is that you make all the squares (they're kaleidoscope squares), sew them in a straight set, then make two strategic cuts, sew the pieces together in a different order and, voila, your quilt is on-point. The border fabric is the fabric that all the kaleidoscope blocks are made from. I named this quilt Bustopher Jones' Family - obviously after the famous character in the musical Cats, which Gene and I saw in London. And the musical was based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by TS Eliot (one of my favorite poets.) The poem begins:Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones--
In fact, he's remarkably fat.
He doesn't haunt pubs--he has eight or nine clubs,
For he's the St. James's Street Cat!
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