"Paradise Found"

Mary Ann's Tropical Paradise

Paradise! It's here! The tropical paradise we've all been looking forward was presented at the October 11th General Meeting. The thank you quilt for our 2000-2001 President, Mary Ann Skinner, is finished and what a paradise it is! The individual blocks that were created by all Beach Cities Quilters membership are so beautiful, fun, crazy, detailed and full of creativity! It's wonderful! Tremendous thanks are in order not only to all the guild members for creating their individual memory blocks and signature bricks but especially for those members who added their time, talent and organizational skills to complete this corner of paradise.

Our sincere appreciation to Pat Pardoen, Diane Collins and Maggie Ezell for their imagination in getting the quilt off to a great start with their ideas and visions.

Then came the assembly committee of at least 15 people who met and designed and put together the quilt top. A big thanks to Leah's for the use of their classroom for several days during the assembly process and for donating the batting, and to Karen Kowalchuk who chaired the basting committee. To Carolyn Pierce, Elaine Pappas-Puckett, Mary Freedman, Kris Kouzelos and Janice Elliott who held quilting bees in their homes with Pat Pardoen coordinating them thank you so much!

Click on images with maroon borders color for larger views.

Special kudos are in order for the wonderful back art provided by Sheri Forrester and Jenny Jensen-Howard.

Leann Goettel, Jenny Jensen-Howard,
Sheri Forrester, and Hiroko Moriwaki

The list could go on and on. It was truly a guild project!