"Hillside Houses" by Daphne Greig and Susan Purney Mark was created for their book, "Simple Stained Glass Quilts".

Daphne and Susan created Hillside Houses by piecing the background into blocks, sewing the blocks together, and then laying a stained glass grid over the top of it to create the beautiful stained glass window look they were striving for. A little more background from Daphne, she says of the quilt: "Bright houses perched on a hillside are the inspiration for this quilt. You will see these along the coastlines of Italy and Greece and even in Newfoundland. The piece was designed for my book, co-written with Susan Purney Mark, Simple Stained Glass Quilts, Krause Publications, 2008. Our unique "whole cloth" technique makes construction of stained glass quilts easy and less labor-intensive than other methods."

(Photos by Gregory Case)