The first ribbon of the year, and it’s blue! The quilt, Fish Pond, was one
in a category of 74 small quilts.
It heads to the Home Machine Quilt Show later this week for a show May
9-11, then off to Colorado for the Hoffman Challenge.
The quilt depicts my feelings of being a little fish in a big fish pond in hopes that I will someday rise to the top. It is an original design incorporating the 2013 Hoffman Challenge fabric. The center is hand needle turn appliqué using silk thread. Quilted on both a Phaff Quilt Expressions 4.0 and HQ Avante purchased in November 2012. Fourteen different colors of Sulky thread and 8 different colors of Swarvoski crystals. Antique glass buttons were used for the fish eyes, Paintstik rubbings created the scales on the fish
