Diamonds - Started at a workshop with Kaffe and Brandon at the Festival of Quilts in the UK in 2011 and finished a year later. I learnt a lot about colour and value from working on this quilt.

Purple 12 By 12 Challenge - Made by pencil drawing and creating a simple template. Background is four purple batiks The hat is one fabric. The darker purple was done with fabric markers. Ribbon is sewn to the upper brim of the hat. My goal was to move myself into a new quilt style, learn to use my machine better, and practice machine quilting. This was for a 12 By 12 Challenge group project we started on Facebook. (inspired by the original 12 by 12 group.)

Nature Walk - 100% White Cotton Sateen painted with Setacolor Textile Paints then sun printed with botanicals. Go to this site to watch me create this quilt: http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-quiltslideshow.html

Jewels in Silk - My first foray into using silk, this quilt shows how Jewels in Chocolate can look completely different with a different color scheme.

Merry Christmas - This is a colored, embroidery, pieced, applique, and beaded project.

Crowns & Apples - This is my first hand applique using many different fabrics. I designed the border with vines & leaves and had it hand quilted.

Ships That Pass in the Night - This was made for and published in my book, Block By Block for That Patchwork Place, 1994.

Spiral Dance - I began this during a class with Barbara in Houston.

My room - This is a thread sketch of a memory of a childhood room from my perspective as a child. I used a whole cloth background to see if I could create enough emphasis using color work with thread. I was most interested in leaving open space and not creating a completely thread covered surface.

Autumn Splendor - The Fall season is my favorite time of the year...Plus I love landscape quilts. I bought this pattern Alpine Glow by Kathy McNeil to challenge myself...I learned to needle turn applique using the Piece o Cake video.. Highlighted the water and trees with fabric paint.. I was pleased how it all came together...

My Kool Kaleidoscope - I love the freedom to work without a pattern and creating my own.

Best of Show Ribbon ~Colonial Quilt Lovers Quilt Show 2015

3rd Place Wall Quilts Ribbon ~Colonial Quilt Lovers Quilt Show 2015

Hawaiian Memories - I painted the center medallion with some of my favorite parts of living in Hawaii- the color of the water and sky, the palm trees, my blue adirondack chair I would relax and enjoy the breeze in, plumeria (my favorite flower), sea turtles (honu, these four representing myself, my husband, and our two children), and the pineapple I lovingly grew. The center is quilted in the traditional Hawaiian style. The pieced blocks have a plumeria quilt design. I finished the border with quilted waves.

Shhh... I'm Sleeping - A challenge quilt at The Quilt Shop where I work part time. Took 1st Place!! Based on a Charlie Harper poster.

Twining Window - Made for Entwined Show at Commonwheel Artists Co-op in Manitou Springs, CO. Whole cloth hand painted center with original twining pattern is surrounded by an adapted attic window border.

Dinosaur Party - A happy, vibrant boys quilt made from my own hand-printed fabrics. View more quilts and fabrics I used at saffroncraig.com.

Allegory - Part of my "Intersections" series based on photographs and collaboration with Christopher Brown.

Stars Around the World - Stars Around the World was made from HST's from the SOTTT Exchange here. I quilted it on my A1 Longarm and it's one of my favorite quilts!

October Walk in the Woods - Made in an Impressionist Landscape class taught by Ann Loveless in Nov 2013 based on a photo taken by Steve Loveless