News events in the quilt world of
2008 upcoming Exhibition
“Mindscapes Searching” & “Mindscapes Turmoil”
where juried into this QSDS invitational show!
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Artists where selected to participate in this very exciting opportunity, I am honored
to be among them.
“Best of 2007”
I was surprised to have three of
the “Mindscapes” series accepted for this exhibition of the
And then “Introspection,
Contemplation, & Deliberation” received the Challenge Award for Excellence.
An extraordinary honor
considering all of the very impressive mixed media work included in the show.
May 6th –
Best of 2007 installation
pictures at Southern
Ohio Museum
July 13th.
Oct 5th –
Opening weekend was a wonderful experience!
What a crowd Friday night well over 450 people in attendance.
It was a pleasure and honor to
have been awarded the Heartland Prize at the Banquet Friday night.
Saturday morning after brunch,
there was more opportunity to see the exhibit and talk to some of the artists;
Here I am talking with Carol
Elrod. Many detail shots were taken of my quilt.
My quilt “Mindscapes
– Enthusiasm” is to the left of Beth Carney’s
“Structured Chaos #14”.
October 2006
Big News is the reward for
working 40-70 hours a week over these past 10 months.
Since June I have made 5 quilts
in a new abstract series, 2 small pieces and 3 large quilts.
I finished just in time to enter
the 3 large abstract quilts in
It was so exciting to receive the
“You are in!” e-mail, can’t wait to hear who else got in.
This is after I received a very
special call from Karey Bresenhan of Quilts Inc. with the astonishing news that
my Quilt “Chance
Encounter!” has been awarded one of the Top Seven Awards In the 2006 IQA
show!
Since this includes a trip for me
to Quilt Festival, I’ve invited my mom to go with me.
She’s not a quilter and has
never been to a quilt show so it will be quite an experience for her.
July 2006
Handiquilter has generously
loaned me an HQ-16 with a sit down table set up!
It arrived in May and the local
sales rep, Dave Sandritter of Quilt Trends in
I spent about 2 weeks getting to
know the machine and trying all the various threads I love to use.
After quilting some sample
squares and three small quilts I was ready to tackle my new large quilt.
The Quilt Top measured 98”
wide by 82” high before quilting.
Now I have been quilting with my Janome 6500,
But even with 9” under the
machine head, I wasn’t looking forward to quilting this large quilt.
Oh, such joy to have so much
space for free motion quilting,
November 2005
It was such a great honor to have
received the Master Award for innovative artistry
sponsored by Maywood Studio at the IQA
show during the 2005 Quilt festival in
What an experience, my mom spent
a week with the girls so my husband could join me in all the fun!
He finally had an opportunity to
see all the fabulous quilts from around the world at the show.
