Something about this log-cabin (or perhaps courthouse-steps) quilt in yellows and golds, really appealed to me. From the Marin quilt show.
Photo by Rachel E. Holmen

Sydne Bortel recently sent me email and said she was the maker of this quilt, based on a Kaffe Fasset design in the book "Passionate Patchwork". She'd seen a similar quilt in a New England museum and wanted to make her own.