Rooster’s Rose Garden

Rose-Anne de Haan

Hand applique, machine pieced, machine quilted. When I moved to Chicago in September 2008, I signed up for a block of the month hand appliqué class at Quilters’ Heaven. The pattern is called ‘Aurelia’s Rose Garden.’ I am from the Netherlands and my family name ‘de Haan’ means ‘the rooster.’ So I changed the center block to make it a more personal quilt for my daughter’s name: ‘Amelie de Haan’.