What Doesn't Kill You

Finally! I can show you what I made for the winner of the One World, One Heart blog-giveaway that I participated in way back in February. I can finally show you, because I finally completed the winner's prize. Not sure why, but I had artist's block for a little while(like writer's block I suppose) which contributed to the delay.

The winner, Bonnie, wrote me a great email with her story and why she chose the seven words that she chose for her memoir quilt. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"

This first picture shows the quiltlet during the editing and composing stage, before I've finalized the design. The next step is to nail everything down with lots of machine stitching. This is how it looks with most of the stitching done, but no words just yet..

I had to make them first! Using my favorite teeny font stamps I stamped the seven words on the selvedge of this thick natural colored cotton.

This is what the words look like after I've sewn them into position and colored them with fabric crayon pastels.
I liked how the colors blended in but still were enough of a contrast to stand out.And down in the corner is what came to call "Strong Dog". She's that part of ourselves that will always stand up for us, even when we might not want to. She was made from a scrap that was this exact shape when I took it out of the scrap pile. I couldn't believe how much it looked like a dog. So I used it without cutting anything off. It just seemed so expressive of what I wanted the dog to represent.

I used the circle stitch on my Janome to make his eye, I love using that stitch!And up in the left hand corner is a piece of one of favorite fabrics in my collection. I remember the dress my mom had made out of it, and the fantastic rustling that it made as she whooshed around the house getting ready to go out. It is a very shiny woven taffeta.
And here is the whole thing, finished.

I sure hope that Bonnie likes it!

One World, One Heart, One Winner

150 Wins!

Using the magic of the random number generator, the number of 150 was chosen as the winner of my offer to make someone a six word memoir quiltlet, which was:

Bonnie who asked: "Could I do 7 words, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", a bad week at work, but yet I Thank God I have a job!"

I'll be emailing Bonnie to work out what she wants on her quiltlet, and yes, I'll probably say ok, why not? to the matter of having 7 vs. 6 words.

Image Made with Mosaic Maker from Big Huge Labs 1. one is the loneliest number, 2. Number 5, 3. zero One World, One Heart sure seems like it was a resounding success. There were so many participants (1,088 blogs from 40 countries!). I only managed to get around to a very small percentage of all the participants. I'm really glad that I participated because I saw a lot of really interesting and inspiring blogs that I probably never would have found on my own. I'm also glad that so many of you came by and commented and hope that you'll be back at some point. Wonder if Lisa (Whimsical Bohemian) will do it again next year? Sure seems like a huge amount of work!

One World, One Heart

Well I kept putting it off, but I kept coming back to the idea of participating in the yearly blog-visiting-giveaway-socializing-extravaganza that is One World, One Heart. After already visiting many of the blogs listed, I decided I wanted to jump in and play too!

Last year I heard about it a bit too late to join in, but here I am on the very last day jumping onto the Magic Carpet.

My offer is to make the winner their very own Six Word Memoir Quiltlet. If you win, you'll give me the six words you want, tell me what about your week made you choose them, and I'll make you a little quilt (8"x8" maximum size). It will look something like the ones shown in this post, but of course, not exactly.

To enter just leave me a comment with your city, country and favorite word.

I'll announce who has won this fabulous prize on February 15th.

And be sure and go and check out at least some of the more that 1000 blogs that are participating and all giving away various gifts, art, prizes and generally putting good vibes out there into the arty/crafty blog-o-sphere.