2014 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show - Wish Upon a Card Postcard Donations

The "Wish Upon A Card" project is a fundraiser initiated by the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) to benefit Wendy's Wish of St. Charles Foundation.  More than 500 fabric postcards were donated by mid-April this year.  SOQS will accept postcard donations up to July 1st.

This year I donated seven 4" x 6" fabric postcards; three incorporated the Michael Miller Challenge fabric.  Each postcard uses materials and techniques I employ in my quilts and other projects.

The Michael Miller Challenge postcard entries received are wonderful.  I was delighted to learn that my bird fabric postcard won first place! Another postcard featuring a liberated star was selected for custom framing for the silent auction.

Photos of the Michael Miller Challenge postcard entries and of the postcards juried and selected for custom framing for the silent auction can be viewed on facebook.

This sweet bird won First Place in the Michael Miller Challenge.  Its tail feathers and legs are made from the challenge fabric.  Hand appliqued wool and cotton, hand embellished with Sea Grass and variegated Valdani Pearl Cotton, and hand quilted.  Drizzle stitches top its head.  Inspired by and using techniques learned from Sue Spargo and Tonye Belinda Phillips.

Machine pieced and hand quilted.  Free piecing as taught by Gwen Marston, and skinny lines.

Machine pieced and machine quilted.  Handmade Kanzashi flowers and a hand-dyed fabric flower bud.   Hand stitched stems and hand appliqued basket handle.

Machine pieced and machine quilted.  Free pieced, with a skinny purple line.

Machine pieced and hand quilted.  Made from remnants of a 2013 Christmas stocking project.  Free pieced, with a skinny line and hand stitching.

Machine pieced, hand embellished and hand quilted.  Wool tree trunk.  One of a series of tree study quilts experimenting with different materials and techniques.  Bullion stitches learned from Sue Spargo.

This fabric postcard was selected for custom framing by High Desert Frameworks for the Wish Upon a Card silent auction.  Machine pieced and hand quilted.  Features a "liberated star" using techniques I learned from Gwen Marston.