The blossom and leaf fabrics came to me as a gift. They said "poppies", very loudly. I had hung them "by chance" on my design wall next to the pieced gradated background I was creating for another quilt, and they looked so great together, that I pulled out all those fabrics again to create the background for my poppies.

Date: 1992

Size: 24" x 29"

Materials/techniques: cotton, rayon, velvet. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.

Shown: Quilt Surface/Design Symposium, OH, 1992. Illinois Quilters, Inc. 1992. Quilters' Paradise Symposium, FL, 1992. Uncommon Threads, WI, 1992. Evanston Women's Club, IL, 1993. Stocker Art Center, OH, 1994. Textile Arts Centre, IL, 1994. Suburban Fine Arts Center, IL, 1995. Contemporary Quilt Design, The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg, IL, 2001. Evanston Made, IL, 2016.

Price: NFS