What an exciting night!
Tonight was the IQA award ceremony here in Houston, and eQuilter was the
sponsor of the $7500 cash prize for the "World of Beauty" winner. Sophie and I
got on stage to announce the winner, and it was the same quilter who received an
eQuilter cash prize in Birmingham, in August 2011! (Janneke de Vries-Bodzinga
from The Netherlands)
Then an ever bigger and more wonderful surprise –
Sherry Reynolds, to whom I gave the Grand Prize at Quilt Colorado this summer –
was the big $10K cash prize winner of the evening! Sherry claims she didn't know
she was getting the big prize, but she looked like a movie star in a little
black sequin sheath dress.
My friend and camerawoman Bonnie McCaffery
got stuck on the East Coast due to the storm, so I had to draft Pam Holland to
take the video footage at the award ceremony. (she was a willing conscript –
*smile*) We interviewed several winners, so you can watch for those videos in the
next couple weeks.
Sophie was very brave and interviewed winner Hollis
Chatelain on camera. We always said Sophie might be a talk show host one day –
ha!
You can see images of the top winners on the Quilts.com website now. Some of
these quilts I've seen earlier this year in Colorado, Tokyo and Birmingham, so
it is exciting to see them show up and win big in
Houston.
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Our hearts and prayers go out to
all of you affected by the big storm on the East Coast. In talking or texting
with some of my friends there, it is evident that the whole story has not been
revealed yet on the news. Friends are reporting devastation in neighborhoods
that I haven't seen on TV yet.
Are any of you thinking about donating or
making a quilt to give to a storm victim? we are working on a connection to make
and give quilts to those who have lost their homes because of Sandy.
Happy Halloween and Safe Trick-or-Treating,
Yes, where can I send a few quilts (or more) for storm victims?!
I am currently working on a bunch of quilts that could be donated. I have about a dozen quilt tops done (child size or throw size) and I could quilt them up to donate to Hurricane Sandy victims. I would love it if you would find a place for us to send them – where they will be distributed properly. In the meantime, I’m just making more tops, until I see what is needed and where it should go. It’s easy to store the quilt tops until I know more. I put the top, it’s backing and binding together and set it aside. I don’t quilt them up until I know where they are going, as I change the batting depending on destination. I hope you will find something for us.
Karen in Wisconsin