Giveaway!!!

http://owensolivia.blogspot.com/2011/09/fabric-friday-poppy-seed-fabrics.html

WIP

Things I'm working on. No pictures. =(
A quilt for my great niece Lauren
A quilt for my friend Sharon
Two scarves for Christmas gifts
Curtains for my granddaughter
Wall hanging for my friend's daughter
A quilt for Landon
Oy! I love overloading myself. Truth is I have ADD! I get started on something else and then I say, "Ooo look over there something shiny" and I move on. Hopefully I'll get a lot of it finished within the next few weeks.

September is National Sewing Month

Lost Quilt

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Craftsy offers $5,000 Reward for Return of Lost Quilt

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Stefanie Japel

Have you seen this quilt?

We are offering a $5000 reward for its return.

If you have any information as to its whereabouts, contact info@craftsy.com immediately.

If you’d like to be kept up to date on the status of the lost quilt, keep an eye on Janet’s Craftsy.com Kaaterskill page, and post any updates, sightings, or just leave a note of encouragement for Janet.

Most importantly, spread the word! Click the “tweet” and “like” buttons above to let all of your friends know about this tragic loss, and how they can help in Kaaterskill’s recovery. If you’ve got a blog, let your readers know about Kaaterskill, and link back to us.

Here’s what happened:

As any artist knows, a work of art is a piece of the soul, and there’s a piece of Janet Atkins’ soul that’s mysteriously gone missing. “It hurts a lot not to know where it is, and I’d really like to see it back,” Janet Atkins, creator of the award-winning quilt “Kaaterskill,” tells the camera in a brief interview with The Times Union.

Janet’s quilt was lost earlier this year after winning numerous awards and gracing the cover of Golden, Colorado-based Quilters Newsletter for its June/July issue.

The quilt was last seen on Feb. 16, when it was picked up by a UPS driver at the Golden, Colo., office of Quilters Newsletter after a photo shoot. The package is reported to have been picked up, but not scanned, and is now lost.

To read more about the mysterious disappearance of this amazing work of art, see links below:

• Quilt stuck in UPS limbo
• Cash no substitute for missing quilt
• Award-winning quilt vanishes, leaving creator with mystery

Four years in the making, the loss of this quilt is a tragedy for its creator.

Janet Atkins has been crafting her entire life, starting with knitting and later moving into sewing. She is a person who loves to work with her hands. In fact, Kaaterskill was entirely made by hand. The quilt is hand pieced, hand quilted, hand bound.

Kaaterskill has come away with high honors from four juried shows, so far, including last year’s Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Virginia, best hand workmanship; the Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, Pa., best hand quilting; and the International Quilt Festival in Houston, where the quilt was awarded an overall third place for handmade quilts. Click to read more about the amazing hand quilting that went into the creation of Kaaterskill.

We here at Craftsy can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be to lose such an irreplaceable labor of love.

REMEMBER: If you’d like to be kept up to date on the status of the lost quilt, keep an eye on Janet’s Craftsy.com Kaaterskill page, and post any updates, sightings, or just leave a note of encouragement for Janet.

Most importantly, spread the word! Click the “tweet” and “like” buttons above to let all of your friends know about this tragic loss, and how they can help in Kaaterskill’s recovery.

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