I love Judy Martin's books, I think she's so inventive. And I've been privileged to meet her at my LQS (well, she lives in Grinnell which is about 75 miles away from Des Moines) and seen a bunch of her quilts from the books.
We even thought we might be related at one point... but it turned out we aren't. I was looking for some reason to explain my "quiltiness" but I don't think it's genetics.