Jennifer jumped into quilting feet first without tools or significant knowledge of the craft. In her first quilt, she used old record-album covers as templates and pieced chintz florals. She acquired a rotary cutter and a straight edge by the time she made her second quilt, but she used her kitchen cutting board instead of a rotary mat. Jennifer has since become far more sophisticated and much kinder to her equipment.

A long-time leisure arts writer, Jennifer wrote the "Feature Teacher" column for The Quilter magazine for seven years and contributed to Fabric Trends. A Dozen Roses is her fifth quilting title and her third collaboration with Catherine Comyns. Catherine's first sewing project was a dress for her little sister. A bossy eight-year-old, she plunked her sister on top of a length of seersucker and traced a pattern for an A-line sheath, which she tacked together with running stitches. Everybody loved her inventiveness, but to her disappointment, there was no runway debut at Sunday services. Undaunted by the mixed reviews, Catherine kept sewing and found a true passion for sewn crafts, especially quiltmaking. An award-winning quilter, Catherine judges quilt shows and teaches knitting and quiltmaking. A Dozen Roses is Catherine's third book collaboration with Jennifer Rounds.

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Book List  All titles available from Amazon.com

• A Dozen Roses: Beautiful Quilts and Pillows, Jennifer Rounds and Catherine Comyns, That Patchwork Place, Martingale & Company, 2007


• Winter Wonders: 15 Quilts & Projects to Celebrate the Season, Edited by Jennifer Rounds and Catherine Comyns, C&T Publishing, 2004


• A Floral Affair: Quilts & Accessories for Romantics, Edited by Jennifer Rounds and Catherine Comyns, C&T Publishing, 2003


• Wine Country Quilts: A Bounty of Flavorful Projects for Any Palette, Cyndy Lyle Rymer and Jennifer Rounds, C&T Publishing, 2002


• A Bouquet of Quilts: Garden-Inspired Projects for the Home, Edited by Jennifer Rounds and Cyndy Rymer, C&T Publishing, 2002