2024 Wall Quilt Show, Portage, WI

I have a quilt in the current Wall Quilt Show at the Portage Center for the Arts!  See my photos.

My quilt is titled “In the Shade of the Old Cupcake Tree”.  It was originally made as an entry in a Great Wisconsin Quilt Show challenge.  The challenge theme was “baking”.  P.S. The vest I’m wearing was made for a different challenge, in a different show, 20+ years ago.

All text and images ©️Suzanne Myers Otto

Fit for a Prince

The 2018 Cherrywood (fabrics) challenge contest featured purple fabrics.

The theme focused on the late singer, Prince.  I purchased the challenge packet

in November of last year.  The entry submission deadline was 11:59 p.m.,

July 2nd.

I made a last minute decision to create an entry and submit it for

consideration.  How last minute?  I started my entry on June 30th, 

two days before the deadline.

The four Cherrywood hand-dyed Challenge fabrics are shown below.

 

 Photos below show my quilt in progress. I pieced a top out of various cuts of 

the challenge fabric.  I cut paisley shapes out of lavender lace and applied them 

to the quilt top using decorative machine stitching.  I added streaks of bronze

Jacquard (brand) Lumiere paint. A few lavender and white flowers were

randomly placed and hand stitched to the quilt top. The quilt has a thin, mostly

cotton batting.  I machine quilted the top before I added the binding.

My finished quilt is shown near the bottom of these photos..  I titled it
"Free-spirited Flamboyance: Raining Purple Paisleys".  It is 20" x 20", the
required finished size. While my quilt did not make the final cut, I enjoyed
creating it!