Boutis - Prize at Jacksonville Quiltfest

In a previous post I showed some photos of my recently completed vanne - and I am delighted to say that it won 2nd place in Other Techniques at Jacksonville, as well as the Judge's Recognition ribbon. I am very grateful, especially as I hope that others who saw the piece will be interested in learning how to stitch boutis, and discover more about this delightful art of the needle.

First Prize Miniatures in Jacksonville !

I am absolutely delighted that this small boutis won first place in the miniatures category at the Jacksonville show www.quiltfestjax.com The basket of flowers is the original class piece designed by Nicole for the classes she taught here in March at West Pasco, and she offered me the piece as a gift. I thought that I might surprise her and entered it in the show (together with my large piece that I wasn't able to finish), and I was very happy to find out, when I got home from vacation, that it had won ! And even nicer (if that's possible), there was a money prize too !

Ich bin uebergluecklich, dass dieses kleine Boutis den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Miniatur bei dem Jacksonville Quiltfest gewonnen hat. Der Blumenkorb war das von der Nicole entworfenen Muster fuer ihre Klassen hier im Maerz bei West Pasco, und anschliessend hat sie es mir als Geschenk angeboten. Ich dachte, ich kann ihr eine kleine Ueberraschung bereiten und habe es fuer die Austellung eingetragen (zusammen mit meinem grossen Stueck, das ich leider nicht zeitig fertigstellen konnte). Ich war total begeistert als ich, nach dem Rueckkehr aus dem Urlaub, erfahren habe, dass es gewonnen hat. Und noch viel besser (wenn das moeglich ist), hat es obendrauf einen Geldpreis gegeben !

Je suis tres contente de vous dire, que ce petit boutis que Nicole m'a offert en mars a gagne la premiere place dans la categorie "miniatures" en Jacksonville cette annee. Je l'avais fait comme petite surprise pour elle, parce que son travail est vraiment magnifique. Venez visiter son blog a www.boutis-et-cie.blogspot.com

Jacksonville Show

Many people stopped and were intrigued about how the boutis is actually made - so I answered many questions and I hope that we will have more interest in the future.

Look at this group of ladies ! They are (most of) the members of the Clearwater Boutis group Loose Stitches and were my traveling partners in Jacksonville. All of them are accomplished stitchers and we had a great time. We ate, shopped, shopped and shopped. Three of us now have the lovely basket from Ghana that Robby is carrying - and we all bought the same fabric to make a liner for it. I am working on everyone to make a boutis each for the show next year so we can have our own category - wouldn't that be great !

Here is my petasson that won the 3rd place in minatures at the Quiltfest. I was so grateful and excited !