Happy Autum Days are here again!
Hard to believe, but it's October already!!!! It has been a very busy, fun and productive crazy quilt year for me!!!
Became great friends with Cindy Wattenbarger when she commissioned me to make her a version of my "Never Forget" patriotic piece. I added a few charms that made it personal for her.
The back fabric gave me the idea to title it "Long May She Wave." It was a very fun piece to do.
Pat Winter had made a post on Crazy Quilt Divas Facebook, that if we put a block together, she would do the embellishing.
Obviously, the theme is all about Dragonflies!!!!
September is our local county fair month! And I decided to see how many quilts I could get in the show.
By choosing different categories, from hand embroidered to crazy quilt with hand stitching, I was able to enter 6 recent quilts. I was completely blown away when all 6 took a First Place ribbon, with one also getting a Creativity Award.
"Yellowstone Memories", judges comments: Very nice, love materials used; remarkable design. Fabrics were purchased at West Yellowstone Fabric and Yarn in West Yellowstone.
"I raise a Hallelujah", judges comments, love the embroidery, and needle work.
"His Winter Star", judges comments: stitching is nice; creative and imaginative; feels a little too busy, hard to figure out what the theme is. Really????
"Our First Christmas without our three", judges comments: Beautiful Project!
"Suffer His Little Children", judges comments: Such Variety! Lovely Wall Hanging and stitching very nice! This one had a business card attached from a local business that fell in love with it and wants to diisplay in their business. Which we will do in November.
"I will see a victory, because the Battle Belongs to You, Lord", judges comments: Love the design;Nice blanket stitches on pictures; theme and use of pics great; like the way you tacked it down; end corners could be tacked down by hand. (they were!) This one recieved two awards!!! Also recieved a $25 gift certificate to shop at Patrick's Crafts and sewing store in Clarkston, Washington!!!
Even Sandy recieved a ribbon...an old damaged frog, we were going to throw away. He decided to recycle it by painting it...Ain't he cute!!!
That brings my ribbons up to a count of 19!!! You can see the others from past years on my Flickr site!!!
Recently I have fallen in love with watching videos by Rashberry Stitches on her Facebook site. She is so creative with her creations. I admired her work and consequently she saw mine, so we decided to make a swap. I created a Under The Sea project for her in her color choices.
I wanted one of her scenes in tourquoise and lavender, the colors of my sewing rooms.
Check out her videos!
At the end of this month I am teaching a Crazy Quilt Class again!!!
As always, thanks for visiting...lots more in the works for next year already!!!
Happy Stitching,
BJ Sandusky
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