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About me…pictures and info Sweet Relish Quilting by Kathy Harvey e-mail SweetRelish@socal.rr.com
This quilt is named 'I am...OR It Matters to This One'. It is a self-portrait quilt which inspired this poem 'On Being a Foster Parent'…each stanza explains a block of the quilt. The poem is written on the hair of the butterfly block which is on the back of the quilt. I started the quilt in a workshop taught by De Anne Sbardellati. I have been a foster parent to more than 40 children and
have adopted one, currently thirteen years old. Helping the children is in my
blood just as quilting is. I am involved in The Foster Parent Auxiliary of
Orange County www.fostercareaux.com
, who provides a lot of help and resources to foster families. Several of my quilts
have been used to generate funds for the Foster Care Auxiliary. If you have a quilt that you would like to donate, please contact me.
This quilt was made with a Buggy Barn pattern in a class I took at Leah's Fabric Gallery in Orange, (contact them at lfg4quilting@usa.net) with my mom and my sister. They haven't finished theirs yet, but they don't have the 'bug' like I do. It won a first place ribbon at the Orange County Fair. I named this quilt 'Quilters wish on quilted stars'.
I made this quilt for my 30 year old son with Eleanor Burns Delectable Mountains instructions. I made the mountains from fabric that I hand marbled. The name of the quilt is 'Climb Every Mountain'…as those of you with grown children know, there are a lot of mountains out there presenting them with many challenges. It won a second place ribbon at the Orange County Fair.
I made this quilt from block of the month directions given
out at my guild…Orange Grove (visit them at their site
www.orangegrovequiltersguild.com) The ribbon border was pieced using the
book 'Elm Creek Quilts' by Jennifer Chiaverini and Nancy Odom for
directions. This quilt won an honorable mention at the fair and is pictured
mid quilted on my gammill on my home page.
This quilt uses Sue Olsen’s technique
’’design to free-motion line’’, which I converted so I could do it on my
longarm and her Dog Gone Quilts pattern titled ‘Jack’. I altered it to
create a portrait of our ‘Jettis’, the puppy my family raised and trained to
be a service dog. At the end of his training he was placed with
a 10 year old boy as a skilled companion. To find out more about ‘Canine Companions
for Independence’ program go to
www.caninecompanions.org . Visit The quilt won a first place ribbon at the Orange County '04 fair. The second picture above is the label on the back of the quilt. (59)
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