Today's mail had word that this work was not accepted in the Sapphire Celebration Contest for the International Quilt Festival. Although I'm a bit taken aback (who wouldn't want this?) I'm happy to have it hang around with me and not travelling for three years. Lesson learned -- don't enter contests against traditional quilts. Cause this ain't one.
I really like what you've done with the big crosshatch print. And all that piecing! Sorry you didn't get in. I'd be shocked and miffed. So many people still do traditional quilting and they do it so perfectly the competition must be stiff. I'm glad, though, that quilting of any kind is still around and thriving -- sadly, so many arts and heirloom crafts have gone by the wayside. It takes people like you to lead the way into What Can Be. --Becky
ReplyDeleteThanks, Becky, for "voting" me in. I'm not so shocked, as this is a venue for more fussy piecing and traditionally bent works. I'm happy to enter it in other places, and I get to take it with me as I travel and lecture. So, all good. Besides, it was a challenge for me to try this suggestion of a "sapphire" theme, and that's the reason I did make it.
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