A Featured Artist Tradition

My first duty at our recent Cotton Patch Quilters show was to deliver corsages to the Featured Artists. Since I was the Featured Artist at our previous show, I had the delightful honor of surprising the mother-daughter team of Kay Ward and Laurie Britt with their very own pink carnations. I had just made a guess when I chose the flowers. Fortunately, my whim was perfect because Kay and Laurie were both wearing pink.

Kay is primarily a traditional quilter whose applique skills are second to none. Laurie has taken a different path and has become a terrific art quilter.

It gave me such joy to wish them a wonderful weekend as the reigning Featured Artists and made it a little easier for me to relinquish the title. I still have a picture of the corsage that Sally Shuppert gave me as the outgoing Featured Artist.

There might just be a quilt in this...