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Jennifer Morris
I love two colored quilts and I’ve always been drawn to the colors – red & white (my Jr. and Sr. High School colors). In 2007, I designed this quilt using Electric Quilt software. The blocks are Feathered Stars with Kansas Trouble corner blocks with red & white striped sashing and Piano Key borders. I rotary cut and marked each piece with an quarter inch seam allowance. Then the hand piecing began!
I kept all my pieces in two pizza boxes. It took one day to piece one star block and two days to piece the twenty-four Kansas City Trouble blocks. Hand piecing the sashing and Piano Key borders was much easier; no intersections! I took less about a month to piece the entire top! Yes, yes, I know it’s hard to believe; but I’m a homemaker/caregiver who stitches between chores instead of watching hours of TV!
It was quilted by long-arm quilter, by Jean McDonald, MO. She does outstanding work. She quilted open feathers in the borders and sashing…
She outlined the stars and tightly quilted feather plumes in the background.
I’ve been fortunate to exhibit Winter’s romance in juried and local venues around the country! I really enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame at International Quilt Festival, Ruby Jubilee: Celebrating 40 Years exhibit 2014! I was given a Ruby Red ribbon and a Ruby-gemmed Needle with Golden Thread!
PAST EXIBITIONS:
1. NQA 2009 Red and White Quilts Special Exhibit
2. Annapolis Quilt Guild 2009 Red & Green Christmas Exhibit, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
3. Houston International Quilt Festival/ Ruby Jubilee: Celebrating 40 Years exhibit, 2014
4. International Quilt Festival/Chicago 2015
5. Quilt! Knit! Stitch! in Portland, Oregon 2015
6. Red River Quilters Quilt Show 2015 in Shreveport, Louisiana
Happy quilting; stop by tomorrow,
Jennifer