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Cynthia Joyner

	Baby quilt with red inner border -- this is one of my favorite baby quilt designs, and I've made several with the baby's name and birthdate quilted in the inner border. I especially like working with 30's repros . . . wonderful colors!
Beach Babies -- original with Cynthia. My son and daughter-in-law were expecting their first baby, and they told me they wanted to decorate the nursery in a sea turtles motif. Since we had once seen a loggerhead turtle nest hatch on the beach in front of our house, and since it was to be a baby quilt, I decided to illustrate the hatchlings making their way to the water. There's one little turtle, in the lower left, who marches to the beat of a different drummer and does his own thing. Machine quilted
	Boy Quilt -- This quilt with cars and trucks hand appliqued was for my older grandson, who, at 2, could recognize most of the vehicles he saw on the road, and who loved cars & trucks. It's an original design and hand quilted, one of a very few quilts I've done with blocks set on point. It's the first quilt I made after we moved to Hilton Head in 1999.
Clamshell -- This was the fourth quilt I ever made. It's hand appliqued, row after row appliqued onto the row above it, and then appliqued down onto the border. I just brought the back over the top; didn't learn to make bindings until much later. This one, too, is hand quilted -- in fact, there is not a single machine stitch anywhere in this quilt. It's very warm, and is the one my husband and I slept under for many years. It's still in use on a guest bed.
	Great Blue Heron -- this is a whole-cloth machine quilted original piece. I enlarged a photo from the Island Packet to get the bird to the size I wanted. I made it for a gift to a friend who had painted a large watercolor seascape to go above the bed covered with my quilt.
Irish Chain -- this was my very first quilt. My daughter was getting married, and a co-worker egged me on to make a quilt for her. I'd wanted to try quilting, but was afraid that I'd get into it and not like it, and I hate not finishing what I start. I needn't have worried; I was hooked! This quilt is now almost 20 years old, and it's probably been washed more than 100 times, and it is still in pretty good shape. It's hand quilted; I only learned to machine quilt after we moved to Hilton Head.
	Olivia quilt -- this was a really fun piece to quilt. Eileen Joyce made the top, using a pre-printed panel and adding pieced borders. She asked me to machine quilt it for her. It's the story of a little girl pig who likes to get into her mother's lipstick, so I added the red lips.
Perservering Pineapples -- This one took 4 1/2 years to hand applique and hand quilt. It's a king-size bedspread, ten feet square. It's hand quilted every half inch over the entire surface of the quilt. Not many people know this, but this quilt is documented in the Library of Congress, the result of a collaboration between the DAR and the Library's folk art preservation project.
	The black quilt -- "Hey, Mr. Rubiks, You Dropped Something" started in a class on quilts of illusion with Karen Combs. I decided not to piece the quilt, but applique the "blocks" onto a black background, and then machine quilt every 3/4 inch over the entire surface. I really like parallel lines and enjoyed doing the quilt. I sleep under it now.
The small green quilt -- "Study in Green" started in a class with Sue Nickels. It's one of the more complicated machine pieces I've done.