This fall, Olivia (one of our blog followers, a Quilting Cozy reader, and a quilt retreat friend of mine) contacted me with some exciting news and she gave me permission to share that news with you!

Remember the quilt featured in this book?

Well, Olivia decided to follow the instructions in the back of the book for making the quilt. She worked on it at our Spring Retreat here in West Virginia and it was fun to watch. I regret that I didn’t take a picture of Olivia surrounded by her neat piles of blocks and her energetic smile. She was clearly having fun. We all checked in with her periodically to see her progress.

This was our first picture of her completed quilt:

This quilt was a reproduction of one of the civil war quilts that was the focus of Book 12: Frayed Edges: A quilting cozy. A beautiful quilt and excellent workmanship! Olivia is a very skilled quilter.

And that’s not just my opinion!

Olivia won 2nd PLACE in the ‘machine pieced and machine quilted‘ category at the Washington County Fair in Pennsylvania! (see her excitement??)

And that’s not all! Olivia also won FIRST PLACE at the smaller local fair in Jacktown PA!

We are all proud of you, Olivia! And I want to thank you for taking the time to make a quilt featured in my Quilting Cozy series. For all you quilters, there is a pattern at the end of each of the 12 books in the series, as well as a mystery, lots of quilting, and the many adventures of our friends living in the Cunningham Village retirement community which exists only in this series (despite the many emails I get from readers wanting to know where the community is so they can move there!)

If anyone has made any of the quilts from my series, I would love to see pictures and with your permission I will feature them on my blog. Send them to me along with a note to QuiltingCozy@gmail.com.

My very best wishes to all my friends and CONGRATULATIONS to Olivia!

Carol