Almost Amish

      Lynn Roddy Brown and Mary Tomlinson

Around 1993 a group of quilters met monthly at a quilt store and worked through Roberta Horton’s book An Amish Adventure.   We spent a year making tops using solid fabrics.  This was a wonderful way for me to learn about color and value.

I  did not plan to put the center of this quilt on point.  I worked outward from the middle using different values for each color.  When I got to the outside edge I couldn’t get the green to suit me.  I spray starched the light green outer squares and made diagonal cuts to create the triangles.  I then carefully added the dark green inner border making sure I didn’t stretch the bias edge.

Mary Tomlinson did a beautiful job hand quilting this quilt.  It was hung at the 2004 International Quilt Festival.