Last week Elena and I were at Freddy Moran’s house photographing Freddy and Gwen for their (just announced) second book. We spent the afternoon and evening talking and photographing. It is great to work with two seasoned professionals and to view their creative quilt designs they plan for the book. The quilt that will be on the cover is classic and fun Freddy and Gwen!

At Freddy’s front door, she had a stack of quilts for us to take home with us (see photo above). Like their last book, Collaborative Quilting, (in which I was their principal photographer) they will divide this new book into Freddy’s quilts, Gwen’s quilts, and their collaborative quilts. End of the day, we packed most of Freddy’s quilts into the trunk of our car and off we went. (She designs about 40 – 50 quilts a year!)

Since they were on their way to Empty Spools Seminars to co-teach last Sunday, they said they planned to drop off some more quilts on their way. So lucky reader, I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what Freddy and Gwen are up to these days.

So, what you are looking at are 28 collaborative quilts--in those bed sheets. Now we have around 60 clients who have sent us quilts from 22 states, but only Freddy and Gwen hand-deliver their quilts to us in bed sheets! For them it’s no fancy plastic bags, or tissue-wrapped, or rolled in a circular foam, or new boxes sent via UPS or FedEx, it’s just bunched up, stacked up, and stuffed in loosely tied bed sheets so they don’t fall out! Only those two would do that--you have to love it! My only surprise, when I later thought about it, was that Freddy even owned WHITE PLAIN sheets! (The red sheets were a given.)

And lucky us, we get to (again) photograph around 75 quilts for this book! It will be a quilt photo blast. I’ll keep you posted on the publication date and title but, for the quilts images themselves, you will have to buy the book!

You can read more about the making of the book here: Courage in 4-Color (see March 13th, 2008).