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In 2006 I was working on my second quilt, Shades of Tiffany. Dave and I were in a quilt store in Duluth, GA, looking for fat quarters. As I was stewing over a stack of fabric, Dave was looking at the quilt books. He came across a book called One Block Wonders by Maxine Rosenthal. "You could do this", he said. Actually, I'm not quite sure what made him think so. As I looked over his shoulder, I could tell it was over my head. "Look at all of those Y seams. There's no way..."

Instead of putting the book down, he persisted. "They're not Y seams, they're stripped pieced. These are really neat." And so began our foray into One Block Wonder quilts. Since that day, Dave and I have partnered on over two dozen One Block Wonder (OBW) quilts. Over time, we've developed our own approach to designing them.

Our approach is to spend a significant amount of time selecting our fabric, and then do our best to only use that fabric in the main body of the quilt. Anything goes for our borders and bindings. We've also started branching out into adding crystals to the fronts, and most recently a bit of applique'.

You'll always find a large piece of the "unaltered" original fabric on the back of our OBW quilts. The backs become our canvas for experimentation. We'll try out new techniques and patterns on the back, and if we like them, you'll probably see a "front" of that pattern in the future. Chocolate Garden I has a Ricky Tim's inspired Convergence on the back. Christmas Mosaic was actually a back made for another quilt, and quickly became too pretty (and to elaborate) to be a back.

In all honesty, many people enjoy our pieced backs as well as (or better than) our OBW fronts.

We've built this website for a couple of reasons...

• We really wanted a place to showcase our work.
• Many people have asked me to share with them our "process".
• Dave's a "techie", and has always wanted to try designing a web site ;-)

So thanks for stopping by. Please click on the link to the right and sign our guestbook.