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	This block "Heavenly Delight" is the first of four patterns we are running in the TAS newsletter. This pattern series was designed by Tina Keenan. It appeared in the November / December 2003 newsletter.
	This is our second in a series of patterns designed by Tina Keenan. "Nature's Joy" is a delight. The butterfly could be either appliquéd or embroidered. Contact Information for Tina is above! This was a feature pattern in our January / February 2004 newsletter.
	"Spring Love" is the third pattern in Tina Keenan's pattern series. This pattern appeared in our March / April 2004 newsletter.
	"Sweet Bouquet" is the last pattern in a four part series designed by TAS member Tina Keenan. This patterns series has been featured over the last four issues of our newsletter. "Sweet Bouquet" appeared in our May / June 2004 newsletter.
	"Joy II" is the name Tina has given her completed project. She has added a checkerboard style sashing to the blocks.
A new pattern series, designed especially for the TAS newsletter, premiered with our May/June 2003 issue. These patterns were called “Country Run” and were designed by TAS member, Bunny Leighton. Bunny created a wonderful and whimsical wall hanging featuring 4 blocks. In each block was an adorable farm animal running, to where, we do not know…
The first pattern, in our May / June 2003 newsletter featured a running rooster and also a tea cozy. Bunny wanted to show other ways in which the patterns could be used. With each pattern came a wonderful alternative suggestion on how to use the pattern.
	Our July / August 2003 issue found an adorable wooly lamb as the second block pattern. Bunny suggested we try this as a wool appliqué and apply it to the bottom of a vest.
When the September / October 2003 issue rolled around, our intrepid designer offered a running pig for our block motif and wrote a very witty article on “Breaking the Rules”, this included instructions for a tote bag that broke all the rules!
	We were all in suspense waiting for the final block in the series, and could hardly wait for our November / December 2003 newsletter to arrive to see what our last country run animal would be. Bunny surprised us with an adorable running bunny. Somehow I think that was most appropriate, this pattern series did keep our Bunny hopping! With the final block, Bunny revealed what the center medallion would look like and offered a page of motifs to help us personalize our wall hanging.
Thank you, Bunny, for providing our readership with some very delightful patterns and great suggestions for alternative ways to use our blocks. If you would like to see more of Bunny’s work, you can visit her web site at http://www.bunnypublications.com


	The Rainshadow Rhodies Chapter in Sequim, Washington. Created this quilt as a non-profit fund-raiser for the Jeff Caterina Foundation. With permission from the designer, they altered the pattern a little and had a lot of fun making the quilt. Read more about this project in our November / December 2003 newsletter.
The Gathering Basket Appliquérs Chapter of Ocala, Florida, and the Quilts in Bloom Chapter of Belleview, Florida, joined together to display their completed work at a local quilt shop. The display was called "A Gathering of Blooms" to incorporate both names of each chapter. These are a few of the winning quilts. Large quilt category winner was Carol Crow. Wall hanging winner was Loretta Kremer both from Gathering Basket Appliquérs chapter. The winner for first attempt at appliqué went to Gwen Pearsall from the Quilts in Bloom chapter. Beautiful work ladies!
	Jeanne Gagnaux of Holland has submitted this pretty project. The "Iris" pattern was designed by Jaydee Price and is the current FREE pattern available as our gift to you when you renew your membership. Thank you Jeanne for sharing your work with us, you do beautiful work.
Mary Tozer finished this wall hanging based of Patterns from Ellie Sienkiewicz’s book “"Best of Baltimore Beauties: Part 2": Pattern #1: "Heart Wreath of Roses", Pattern #2: "Heart Wreath of Acorns", Pattern #3: "Heart Wreath of Cherries" (I altered this one and used holly leaves instead of the pattern leaves), Pattern #4: "Heart Wreath of Tulips”). Elly says in her book that the "Heart Wreath" blocks were inspired by blocks created by Carol W. Jones. : The right two blocks were completed in 2001 for inclusion in Elly's book. The left two blocks were completed in December 2002. The quilt will be hand quilted this spring (2003). When I stitched the two blocks for the book, I had visions of setting them with two other blocks with similar ones representing each season. Each block has some sort of dimensional aspect to it. From left to right, top to bottom: the Winter block (Holly wreath) has stuffed circles. The Spring block (rosebuds) has half circle folded rosebuds. The Summer block (tulips) has the center petal as an "altered" half circle folded rosebud. The Fall/Autumn block (acorns) has French knot caps.
	Two women, Lynn Cooper and Alice Calhoun, met at a class and the next thing they knew, three California TAS chapters, Camellia Grove Chapter from Elk Grove, the Sierra Needlers of Auburn, and the Turning Points in Grass Valley, formed a 100 mile long chain with one common goal…produce a quilt for the Sutter Hospital Breast Cancer Center Auction in Sacramento, California. It was decided they would use 30 blocks from Elly Sienkiewicz’s books. Right in the middle of the project they learned that the Sacramento area had been selected as the site for the 2003 TAS Annual Meeting and Quilt Show. They had their work cut out for them, but the end result is this beautiful quilt. The winner of this beauty titled “California’s Baltimore Garden” received a queen size, hand appliquéd, hand quilted work of art and Sutter Hospital’s Breast Cancer Center received ,700 to continue their work in Breast Cancer. We at TAS are very proud of these wonderful, caring women. They represent the best of what we hope our chapters and our organization can be.
This beautiful table runner was created by TAS member Jeanne Gagnaux of Holland. The pattern was designed by Darlene Christopherson and was featured in our January/February 2002 newsletter.
	Members of the Yuma, Arizona TAS chapter "Yuma Crossing" have created this beautiful "bird" quilt. They designed it for the cities annual birding festival. In addition to the birds it contains flora and fauna and even bugs native to Yuma, Arizona.
This beautiful quilt titled "Cinnamon Stitches" was made by Mary Tozer of Minnesota. Mary used a series of patterns from Piece O' Cake Designs. These patterns were inspired by 18th century woven coverlets. The blocks are 20" square. Here is a link to Piece O' Cake Designs website.
	This bright and lively quilt called "Dolce Farniente" is the latest appliqué creation from Marilou Vandierendonck of Belgium
Fran Snay of Burleson, Texas shares several of her beautiful quilts with us. You can see more of Fran's work at her website at http://www.quiltsbyfransnay.com
	Fran's first piece is called "Never Say Never" included is a close up photo showing some of the blocks used in this quilt.
	Here is the CLOSER photo of the "Never Say Never" piece!!
Fran's Dresden plate is appliqué plates and teapots called "Dazzle me with a Spot of Tea"
AND.... Another close-up of Fran Snay's work!
	"Cordially Yours" by Fran Snay
	Thank You Fran for the CLOSEUP photos! It's GREAT to bring out the DETAIL!

	Autumn Fruits is a beautiful quilt created by TAS member Marilou Vandierendonck of Belgium. We will be running the patterns for this quilt beginning with the May / June 2002 issue of the newsletter. Thank you Marilou for your pattern donation!
	Zoe Albert of the Marigolds, TAS chapter in Kamloops, B.C., shares this photo of the beautiful TAS banner they made to display at their first community project!
Teri Henderson Tope, of Worthington, Ohio sent in several pictures of her quilts. Thanks to Teri for her photos and comments.
"Quilt #1 was sewn for a Mardi Gras Challenge. I borrowed the design from a poster for the New Orleans Jazz Arts Fest. It is fused, machine appliquéd and machine quilted. The blue satin ribbon hanging with the quilt is from a funeral procession my brother-in-law happened upon while in New Orleans."
	"Quilt #2 was a UFO (unfinished object) I was challenged by a group of quilter friends to see who could get the most of their UFO's finished in the year 2000 ( I finished two out of about 103 UFO's ). This quilt center was one of the first log cabins I made. It was machine pieced in an era when all quilts were pink and blue ( 15 years ago). Anyway I pulled it out and decided to appliqué the borders. I called this Northern Lights, but my husband calls it Nuclear Winter."
"Quilt #3 is from Anita Shackelford's book. I call it my study of reverse appliqué or, if you can print it, 'Those Damn Deer' !

Last Updated 11/07/2008