Snowflake Quilts

Sunrise April 20, 2008 through an apple tree at Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT. Cello and I had a spontaneous overnight stay for our 14th anniversary. My folks were watching the kids for spring break and we had a brief window of opportunity. I highly recommend the Trapp Family Lodge. Good food, friendly quality service, comfortable lodging.

First in the Vermont Landscape series. I will be aiming for a sunset scene next.

This is a quilt I made in a class with Karen Eckmeier on "Accidental Landscapes". I can't drive down the road anywhere now without seeing landscape elements. I highly recommend Karen as a teacher and her landscape and "Happy Village" techniques. Her books are also very easy to follow. As you can see in the Sunbonnet Sue Season quilt, the landscape bug is injecting itself into much of my work. I donated this quilt to our Jericho Elementary School Mud Season Auction. It sold for $95! The overall auction raised over $11,000 for our playground renovation fund.

I searched and searched for fabric that looked like the mountain at sunset in the pictures in the previous posting. Now I know why people dye their own fabrics! I than got distracted with a view of Mt. Mansfield at night. The covered bridge is in Mills River Park in Jericho-Underhill. I still need to add top-stitching, beading, borders, and quilting, but the general outline is coming along nicely.