This quilt was made while my first husband and I were living in the first house we owned on Laurelton Road. I'm pretty sure I had purchased a book of quilt blocks and chose these blocks to make from there. They may have come from a Georgia Bonesteel Lap Quilting book. I remember spending many hours pouring over her books. All of the fabrics are very similar small floral calicos - pretty much the only thing you could buy back then.

It was made as a gift for Matt, the firstborn son of my friend from Providence, RI, Nancy.
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I'm amazed at the precision piecing in this quilt, given my limited training in quiltmaking. I guess all those years of dressmaking paid off!

I think it was 1987 that I took my first quilting classes: Quick Quilting and Speed Piecing. They were taught by Karen LaDuca at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.

This log cabin was a result of the Quick Quilting class. It was a method that started with a square of backing fabric with a square of batting basted to it. The center was marked and then strips were added in a sew-and-flip method to cover the area.

I still have the notebook with my notes from those classes. I see that I learned about things like cutting mats and rotary cutters, washout markers, Elmer's glue for basting, and bias binding. Thank you Karen, wherever you are, for getting me started on my quilting journey!

This little quilt was also a result of Karen LaDuca's Quick Quilting class at RMSC. It is such a simple quilt, but I still love the way the striped fabric helps give it some motion, thus the name.

By the way, the striped fabric is leftovers from the curtains I made for our bedroom out of a set of sheets.