My original idea for this quilt was to make it in all blues, greens and
teals. But when I went to the quilt shop and saw all the beautiful
batik fabrics, I decided to use more colors. I asked the store clerk to
cut 1/8 yard of every batik in the store! I brought them home, folded
each piece into a small square and laid them out on the floor. My husband, Bill, and
I kept rearranging the squares until we were happy with the colors. I
paper-pieced the blocks, and after I assembled them, I decided to add
the piano keys border. I quilted it with an original design on my
Gammill Classic long arm quilting machine, which I owned from 2001 to
2004. This quilt won second place in the 2003 Heritage Quilters Guild
Bi-Annual Quilt Show in the "Large Quilts" class. It now has a place of
honor on a prominent wall in my living room.
I call it "Sunset on the Coral Sea." The coral is in the center, the
beach is on the bottom left, the waves are crashing in from the right
bottom corner, the waning sunset is on the top right and the night sky
is coming in at the top left.
