Anna's Auction Quilt

My Amish neighbor, Anna, asked me for a favor recently.  She had made a queen-sized bowtie quilt that was inspired by the Amish wallhanging quilt that hangs in my kitchen and I use for my profile picture.  Anna pieced the bowtie blocks and assembled the quilt by machine and then hand quilted it on a frame set up in her living room.  The quilt was sent to an Amish school auction where the school kept 10% of the final bid and Anna got the remainder.  Anna asked me if I would mind taking a picture of the quilt so she could remember what it looked like if she decided to make another.  It was made of a solid white fabric and a tiny printed burgandy fabric which she said 'would pass for plain in the Amish world.'  Here is the picture of her quilt hanging from her back porch.  Notice there are no people in the picture.  The baptised members of her church avoid being photographed.  Sometimes they will give permission for you to photograph their unbaptised children.  But it would be impolite to do so without asking first.