Koi is in Quiltmania!
In mid-July a most delightful e-mail from blog-reader Evy V. in the Netherlands arrived, telling me that “I had to let you know I was very pleasently surprised to see a picture of your beautiful Koy Quilt in the French/Dutch magazine “Quiltmania” when they arrived at my store.” WOW! So I promptly surfed in to eQuilter, which I know carries the magazine (since of course no one within a 90 minute drive of Camden does). They had only just received issue 65, and Koi is in 66…. so I checked last week, and my copy of issue 66 just arrived!
Here is the opening page of the article which, as I had guessed, was about the spring AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky; this show is one of the two most prestigious in the US (along with the IQA show in Houston), so I was thrilled Koi was juried in:
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I was happy to see another Maine Quilter, Wendy Caton Reed, represented on the second page…her quilt won a top ribbon at Maine Quilts 2008 this year. It’s the one in the center, red and yellow:
And here, drum roll, on p. 26, is Koi!
I’m in mighty good company…that quilt just above mine is one of the top prize winners by Diane Gaudynski!
After the many, MANY rejections I’ve had, it is heartwarming to know that out of the many, MANY outstanding quilts in Paducah, QuiltMania selected mine to include in the article! Thank you to them, and to Evy for letting me know. By the way, she is a quilt shop owner in the Netherlands, so click here to surf in, and I sure hope some day I get to VISIT her shop!
August 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am
I had a feeling something good would happen sooner or later and it looks like it was sooner! Congratulations! I’m very happy for you.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:04 am
Great! You’re going international…
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August 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
A celebrity! Congrats!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Congratulations! This is a wonderful piece.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Sarah, how great! Hope you are now over the rejection blues. Hope to see you in September along with the magazine.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Fabulous !
Awesome news !
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Sarah, that is too awesome! Good for you! I have told you before that quilt is great.
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Congratulations! WOWOWOWOW!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Woo-hoo, Sarah! That is really neat. Congratulations. And I LOVE that quilt.