Last year this unfinished quilt top was donated to the New England Quilt Museum by Kay Koenig’s daughter after she moved her mom to an assisted living facility.  Since Kay had hand pieced this top and I loved the fabrics, I decided to finish it with hand quilting, adding the green border with her own fabric.  I finished it in February and it sold in the museum store for $300.  I still have some of these 3 fabrics left and may make a quilt with a different pattern for the museum to sell next year.  Stay tuned.

This “Swirling Plaids” quilt was inspired by seeing a log cabin quilt with this arrangement of blocks made by 89-yr-old Maynard Westlake in a juried quilt show on YouTube.  Maynard's Log Cabin blocks each had many pieces.  I made my blocks with just 2 or 3 pieces with the 10 "fat quarters" of plaid fabrics I had bought in 2008 from a bargain bin in a quilt shop for just $1 each.  The quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted.  The border quilting of swags and flowers was done with pearl cotton to be more visible.  I donated it to the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts to sell in its gift shop.

This Chanukah table runner was hand embroidered in honor of the wedding of my cousin Jonathan Alan Epstein to Marcy Liza Wexler on January 2, 2025.  They met on the 8th night of Chanukah in 2023 on a Jewish singles cruise and held their wedding on the same date on the Hebrew calendar a year later. The embroidery pattern was adapted from “The New Work of our Hands” by Mae Rockland Tupa. It is accompanied by 10 matching table napkins in a turquoise batik fabric the color of Caribbean waters and a glass tray to catch candle drips.  Jonathan's mom suggested this gift since she received a table runner and matching napkins made by me for her wedding gift in 1983.