I thank all of you for your generous comments. I never really expected that my projects would have so much appeal. I had never thought that I was much of an artist either, I could never draw to help myself and felt very disadvantaged while in high school and everyone else was turning out wonderful paintings.
Fabric gave me my medium, and I love what we can do for each other. Sometimes it's more about what the fabric says about my designs. I love to read/look at/ or is it devour patchwork magazines, but find I make very little of what I see in them. They do inspire me and I often feel nourished by looking at all the beauty therein.