No wonder I like that "Flower Show" quilt. It's a Bill Kerr/Weeks Ringle design. (They are the authors of "Modern Quilt Workshop," one of my favorite of the "modern quilts" books).

Like Lynn, I like making simple quilts. I've made my peace with it - I make a concerted effort to not feel bad that I'm not doing highly complicated things. Because:

1. I LIKE the simple geometric-patterned quilts. They make me happy. I enjoy looking at them. They tend to be more like the quilts that people in my family had - or that friends of mine had inherited from older family members.

2. It's a lot of fun to play with color and design with a simpler top. The color becomes the focus more than the blocks, and really, for me, it's about the color and the prints in the quilt.

3. I make quilt tops to relax. I would not find doing Mariner's Compass with its 82,352 little bitty triangle pieces relaxing to sew. Yes, I know, you can do them paper pieced but I have to admit I don't ENJOY paper piecing. I do enjoy taking a bunch of squares or rectangles and mixing them up and sewing them together.

4. It really is about the fabric for me. Not as much about my piecing-fu. Which sometimes isn't the best, I admit. But I'd stress myself out worrying about matching triangle points so six of them (or whatever) came together precisely. And I don't need to be more stressed. I need to be more happy, like I am when I take a bunch of bright colored fabrics and cut them into squares or strips and sew them together and see the quilt taking shape under my hands.

5. If simple geometric designs are good enough to make Kerr and Ringle famous, and if they're good enough for Jane Brocket to write a book about, then they are certainly good enough for little old me.