10/23/15 Update: My quilt came home with this third place ribbon. So exciting!!
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| Third Place in the Modern Category |
I know you're all getting tired of this quilt, but today was pretty incredible. My mom, a good friend and I traveled over to the Washington State Quilters 37th Annual Quilt Show in Spokane, Washington where I got to see one of
my quilts hanging. Along with hundreds of other really great and wonderful quilts.
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| In another quilt show |
I'm still blown away. The very first time I went to this particular quilt show I went around and mentally said 'I can never make anything this good. I will never have the skills to sew something like this.' And on and on and on, as you can only imagine a beginning quilter feeling the delight of seeing so many beautiful quilts mixed with despair at how very much there was to learn.
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| Seeing it through my eyes today.... |
And today I got to see one of
my quilts hanging in that same space. {Okay. You got the message.} It was so much fun to see people standing in front of my quilt, silently reading, sometimes chatting, little kids taking pics with their cell phones. Just taking it in. Or not. I saw people glance at it and walk right on by too.
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| The spark that started this quilt on it's long, often difficult journey |
My friend asked me how I got the courage to put a quilt into this particular show. Hmm... That's a
long story. More important is how I got the mental fortitude to make this particular quilt. Well, that's because I really, really
didn't know what I was setting myself up for. Or how
long it would take and that the idea was too compelling to ever totally quit so I didn't really have a choice anyway?
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| We never really know what playtime can yield... |
Funny how ideas can explode into something larger than our imagination. Did you get to go to the show too? Amazing where life can take us. Thank you
Spokane for letting me have a small bit of space in your show! Vive La Difference!
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