Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

My quilt, Too Much Chicken has placed at AQS Chattanooga.

Update: I won an Honorable Mention in the Wall Quilts, Long Arm Quilted Category.

I don't know what it's won, but It is certainly something I never expected. I made the quilt on a lark as the result of an funny dinner conversation and never expected it to be anything more than a couch quilt. But Gerald Roy told me to submit it to AQS Paducah, and it was accepted there, to my astonishment. From there it went to Syracuse and Grand Rapids, now Chattanooga and will soon be shown in Des Moines.

My quilt isn't quilted to within an inch of its life, as many show quilts are. In fact, when my Mom told me "You're going to win a prize one of these days," when we were at AQS Syracuse last year, I said "No, Ma. My quilts aren't quilted enough." So it was a lot of fun to hear her say, "I told you so!" when I told her about the win yesterday.

The list of winners will be here: http://www.quiltweek.com/past-winners after 9 AM Central time on Wednesday September 14, 2016. The quit will be on display from Sept 14 through the 17th.

So again, if anybody is going to the AQS show in Chattanooga, keep an eye out for the Chicken quilt and take a selfie with it and send it to me at patcherymenagerie AT gmail DOT com.

AND... I've got two small barn quilts on exhibit in a special show at AQS Chattanooga and AQS Des Moines. You can see the Henniker Barn and the Pig Farm Barn quilts there.

Hot Diggity!

PS: Thanks Rebecca for the updated blog post title!

Too Much Chicken Accepted into AQS Chattanooga

My quilt, Too Much Chicken, has been accepted into the AQS show in Chattanooga Tennessee, September 14 - 17 2016. 

I'll also have two small barn quilts on display in the special exhibit as part of the Secret Society of Barn Builders, the group Julie Sefton assembled to test her notes in her book, Build a Barn.

If you get to see the AQS show in Chattanooga, I'd love if if you could take a selfie with one of my quilts and send it to me.

AQS Chattanooga

My quilt, The Black & White Crayons, is on display at AQS Chattanooga this week. If you go, take a selfie with it and send it to me at patcherymenagerie AT gmail DOT com (you know how to put them together.) And I'd love it if somebody would get me a show pin. I'll pay for it and the postage. Let me know, thanks!

Lynne

AQS Thoughts

When I told my Mom I had a quilt in an AQS show, she was surprised. "You're in a NATIONAL SHOW?" she asked.


Um yeah, and this is my fourth AQS show, I told her.

"LYNNE!!!"

So we drove six hours to Syracuse to see my quilt in the show, and the whole AQS experience. I confess I didn't "get it" until I walked into the Oncenter and saw my quilt hanging in great company.

 I was almost embarrassed to tell my Mom I had been accepted into two other AQS shows.

The Black and White Crayons are going to AQS in Chattanooga and AQS Des Moines.



Then my Mom says to me... "Where is the next show?"

"Grand Rapids Michigan."

"Are you in that one?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I missed the deadline to enter."

"When's the next one you're in?

"Chattanooga Tennessee."

"Oh," her voice fell. "That's far. We can't drive to that. Where are the others?"

"Phoenix Arizona, Daytona Florida, Lancaster Pennsylvania, and Paducah Kentucky."

"I guess we're not going to any of those."

"Well we sure as hell aren't driving! Six hours and my butt hurts! We'll see."

"How do you get to Chattanooga?"

"You have to fly."

"Oh. I guess we won't be going to that one either," she paused. "Are there any other quilt shows you can enter?"

"MOM!"



Apparently I still don't get it.


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(update: sorry Judy. My geography isn't good when I'm trying to do two things at once. I was watching the first episode of Project Runway Season 14 while writing this post!)

BW Crayons to AQS Chattanooga

Woo Hoo!  My quilt, Black & White Crayons, has been accepted into AQS Chattanooga, and will be on display there September 16 - 19, 2015.

AQS Chattanooga - Black Box & See Rock City

Check this out!  That's my quilt, The Black Box on the left, and Julie's quilt, See Rock City, over on the right. How cool they are displayed so close together!

If you will be attending the show in Chattanooga, take a selfie with my Black Box quilt and send it to me. I'd love to see it!

Julie and The Black Box

This is my best pal Julie with my Black Box quilt, which is currently on exhibit at the AQS show in Chattanooga.

If you are planning to attend the show, and if you see my quilt, take a picture of yourself with it and send it to me!  And if you can't send a photo, tell me what you think of the quilt!

thanks,
Lynne

oh, and in case you don't know... my quilt is completely "free-pieced" which means it was made without patterns or templates, and it is NOT paper-pieced. If that isn't enough, I do not completely plan my quilts out in advance. I start with a half baked idea and see where it takes me.

Black Box, AQS Chattanooga

My quilt, The Black Box, will be on display this weekend at the AQS show in Chattanooga. If you see it, please take a picture of yourself with it and send it to me at patcherymenagerie AT gmail DOT com.  (You know how to put those together properly.)

Julie's quilt, See Rock City, will also be there, and you should check that out too! (She'd like a picture too!)

I'll be packing, and any photo of you and my quilt will brighten my weekend. THANKS!

The Black Box @ AQS Chattanooga & Des Moines

In all the craziness I don't know if I mentioned it, but The Black Box quilt will be on exhibit at the AQS show in Chattanooga September 10 - 13. If you go, take a picture of yourself with my quilt and send it to me. Here is the list of semi-finalists.

Then The Black Box will travel to Des Moines Iowa for the AQS show there October 1 - 4. The quilt will be in good company. My friend Julie's See Rock City quilt will also be on exhibit in both shows. Here is the complete list of semi-finalists.

I'm thrilled to have my quilt on exhibit.

Like they all say about the Oscars, "It's an honor to be nominated."

Portrait of a Chicken (or two or three..)

My very tall nephew helped me hang "Too Much Chicken" on the fence at the local playground so I could take some pictures.

btw, The Black Box has been accepted into the AQS show in Chattanooga. Here's the list of all the quilters whose work will be on display.