Magazine and blocks.............

When I was in NC last month I was looking for a magazine to read on the airplane coming home.  I had seen this magazine on several blogs but it didn't interest me until I saw this issue about Louisiana.  There is a section about Anna Williams.  I first saw her quilt tops at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, Ohio around 1992.  Her friend Katherine Watts brought the tops and they hung them on the walls of the cafeteria.  If you don't know who Anna Williams - quilter is you might want to do a search and see some of her scrap quilts.  There was a book published by AQS in 1995 about her life and quilts and I didn't buy it for some reason.  It is out of print now and is $100 - $300 on Amazon. 

Here are some more of my favorite batik combinations in the neutral 16 patches I am making.

The dark print in the block on the left and the geometric print in the block on the right are batiks from the 1990s.  There were so few batiks available in the beginning that I bought almost every one that I saw.  There are some that I would never consider buying now but they were so unusual in the early 1990s and I had to have them.

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