Edelbert the Owl
Saturday, October 20th, 2012What a concept… I actually made a small quilt! And of course prepped more new samples for demos in my classes, starting with Quilt Festival in Houston this fall, so thought I’d share with you. I’m in a small online fabric postcard swap group, Postmark’d Art. One of the themes I signed up to do this round was Birds. Of course I was stumped…way too many choices! At first I was going to do birds from the trip to Florida. Then our local wild turkeys. Then I hit on it: the saw-whet owl! There was this adorable ad in the Nature Conservancy magazine with an owl in a little straw hat. Presto!
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Owls ready to wing their way to their new homes with members of Postmark’d Art. (c) SarahAnnSmith.com
Then I wanted to donate one of these cards to Pokey Bolton’s fundraising effort to benefit the Houston area animal shelters… she’s only lived in Houton since the start of this year and has already rescued three critters (permanently adopting one of them). She had a great idea to sell fabric postcards at Festival for $20 each, all proceeds to go to the local shelters. So of course I wanted to help… she’s even (what a thrill!) included both of my cards on her blogposts including here. Read more about it and see some of the fun cards that have arrived here. I hope I’m not so buy in class that I miss the chance to swing by the postcard zone when Festival opens! But my cards were too close to the ad, so I wanted to change it up a bit. Since I live in Maine, what else would do but an Elmer Fudd hat??? Here are my two donations:
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Donated to the Pet Postcard / Animal Shelter Fundraiser…visit Pokey Bolton’s blog for more information!
HE was so cute, I had to make a small quilt. My local quilt chapter, the Coastal Quilters, is part of Maine’s Pine Tree Quilt Guild. As part of our 2013 challenge, we are making somewhere between one and nine 13×13 inch square quilts using one of nine themes announced between fall of 2011 and April 2013. We’ll display our challenge quilts at the 2013 Maine Quilts Show. Well, I am SERIOUSLY behind. I did the first one, then got sidetracked by life. So, here is my “Eyes” challenge quilt, because after all what are owls all about if n ot their eyes?
I LOVE this guy! His name is Edelbert. You can call him Eddie or Bert, but I think we prefer Bert. Clearly he has a sense of humor and is a fun soul to have around. I’ll share the class samples once I’ve debuted them in Houston…stay tuned! Think white eggs on white background!