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...

Cotton Patch Quilters Biennial Show 2016

Oh, what a show! Before too much time flies by, I thought I'd better post a few highlights from my guild's show which took place on February 13 & 14 at the Kern County Fairgrounds. I know that oodles of time has passed since I last posted, but days like this can be so rare.

This is the display of the major winners just inside the main door.

 

The variety of talents and skills in our guild is incredible.

 

 

Two of the quilts looked really familiar. On the left was "Peach Within Reach" by Marilyn J. Smith. She won Best of Show, Large Quilts.

 

 

On the right was my very own "It's Raining Mushrooms in California".

Best of Show, Wall Quilts.

 

 

I am still not believing any of this!

 

More to come...