Best in Show, AAQG Quilt Fest 2012

Here is the winning quilt for the Austin Area Quilt Guild’s 2012 quilt fest:  Ruffled Roses by Mary Clendennen.  Congratulations, Mary!  The quilt won multiple awards at the AAQG 2012 show and this photo does not do it justice.

Update: Angela Steiner did the needle-turned hand appliqué, Angela McCorckle did the hand-guided machine quilting and Mary Clendennen did the piecing. Congratulations to all!

Dragonfly postcard

While Mary and crew were slaving over the king-sized quilt for hundreds and hundreds of hours, I made a 4″x 6″ fabric postcard. Everyone has their place in the (quilting) food chain, right? Right?

This is the crazy quilt fabric postcard I made and mailed to Shelly. I had it hand-cancelled at the post office (with first class postage, of course). I mailed it on Wednesday and she received it on Thursday.

Crazy quilt fabric postcard

I recently took a class at the Honey Bee Quilt Store in Austin, Texas. Nancie Vogele was the instructor, showing us how to make fabric postcards. It was fun!

They are approximately 4 inches by 6 inches. And yes, you can send them through the mail; they need the first-class postage rate.

So fun and cute!