Just checked and my "Coneflowers" quilt is lying in third place at the online contest at the Quilting Gallery! :o)
My position won't go up from there now as the others are way ahead.

The voting finishes today so you still have a chance to peep at all the eye candy. It has been quite interesting watching the votes mount up.

PS. Thank you if you voted for me.
UPDATE Delighted to find that I maintained third place . :o)

I have no pictures to post as I am waiting for a battery to arrive for my camera.

This week whilst Coneflowers is touring USA with the WQT2009 show I thought I would enter it in the competion at the Quilting Gallery. It is in the small quilts category.

If you click on the logo to the right it should take you there.

Yes of course I would really appreciate a vote but there are lots of other wonderful entries to choose from.

Fascinating to see all the different ideas and techniques

My quilts at National Quilt Championships,Sandown.

Realm of the Seahorse.



Coneflowers


Red and Green are sometimes seen.


Thank you for the pictures :o)

Exciting day!

First of all an email came in overnight to let me know that the two quilts I submitted have been juried into the World Quilt competition! I took a deep breath before I sent in the forms as I have never entered international competitions before! Apparently a record number of 28 quilts from 21 quilters will be travelling over the pond this year!
The quilts that will be going are "Coneflowers" and "Crazy Paisley Sampler".

The rest of the day saw me with a big grin on my face!

Then I got a phonecall from Grosvenor Exhibitions re. my entries in the National Quilt Championships at Sandown!
First of all I was told that "Coneflowers" had won the Machine Quilting Award and then just as I went to say goodbye Vicky told me that my entry into Batik Beauties had won First Prize!!!!

First prize is all sorts of goodies which I will show when they arrive.

Hopefully I will have a better picture of the quilt after the weekend but this is a little bit of it for now.

The quilt is called "Realm of the Seahorse".
:o)

Fabrications magazine.

Whenever you have a quilt shown in Fabrications magazine they are really kind and send you a copy. The current issue has two of my quilts shown in the Sandown/Hoffman Challenge article. Neither of them will bring home any prizes or rosettes but it is rather nice to see them in print :o)



The picture below is of the full page advert for this years Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate. Last year my Coneflowers quilt was the overall champion winner which of course was a wonderful feeling! What didn't sink in at the time was how many times I would see that quilt in print and on flyers for this year's show. I daren't even begin to think how many pictures of it there are or even how far they have travelled!

Cone flowers

These are always covered in bees and butterflies.I am designing a quilt based on this picture.