UPDATE....OK...I have to tell...
 

My quilt made it to the semi-finals but did not go on from there. I feel that just getting in to the AQS show in Des Moines is an honor that I am very proud of. Thanks for the kind wishes and excouragement. I am excited to get this far!

Congratulations! Your quilt is beautiful!

Really neat quilt! Subtle colors, but stunning construction, makes one want to keep looking at it to see what else they might find!

I've loved this quilt from the first time you posted it a while back. The colors! The Texture! I just signed up for a fabric manipulation class at my LQS. It's in two weeks and I can hardly wait! I wanted to get a shirring foot for my Viking, but it was big $$$. I found a Singer 99 clone at the Salvation Army for $10 and the shirring foot from my old treadle works on it! The treadle machine itself does not work, so for $10 I got a dedicated ruffler!

I can't stop looking at this quilt. It is pretty and interesting. If it were mine I would display it in a special place in my home. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Congratulations.

What a beauty.

congratulations...

nice quilt :thumbup:

Congratulations!! It's a beautiful quilt!!

It's beautiful, with or without a ribbon, it's amazing!

congrats. you are brave to submit a quilt to judging.

If yours didn't make it, I'd love to see the ones that did.

Thumbs up!!!

Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous!!

Beautiful, good for you.

this was a beautiful work of art and you should be so proud of yourself! you have amazing skill and so much patience!

Well, personally I think it should have gone farther, but from the quilt shows I've attended it seems like brighter colors are more popular.

That is sooooo pretty!

You did the finest of jobs!! So much talent and creativity in the quilt.

In my opinion, your quilt IS a blue ribbon winner -- its absolutely gorgeous! I admire you for being able to submit it, too. If I had a quilt like that I'd probably hang it, as its an art piece. Beautiful!

your quilt is stunning. i love the colors. just beautiful.. congratulations..:thumbup:

I think so too!!!!!
Cleodaisy

I have never seen a quilt done using the way you did. That had to be some serious computation for yours not to have one. Looks like a winner to me. The colors are so tranquil. It is really beautiful.

You should be proud! It's beautiful, and I can see that a lot of thought and planning went into the finished quilt.

very nice!!!!

Beautiful! It looks like a community of fields, flower gardens, roads and hedges. The colors are subdued, but oh so pretty! I'd enter it in a few more shows, so people can see the work put into it, then display it on a wall in your home.

It is a beauty. Well done for submitting it and doing so well.

Congrats on one fine Quilt!!!

Wow beautiful/ Congrats.

I have a ruffler for SALE
 

I now have a Pfaff so I have a perfectly good Viking ruffler (tag says 64.99) that I wish to sell for much less. Contact me if interested.

You reached a height that some of us just aspire to. Congratulations, you have done so well.

Congratulations. It is absolutely beautiful and getting to the semi-finals is an affirmation of your talent that is well deserved.

Beautiful quilt. Well deserved congrats.

Congratulations!!! Beautiful quilt!

It's exquisite to me!! A big honor to have been accepted, and a treasure for many years to come!

congratulations, it is beautiful, so many different details I am amazed on the variety of stitches if your did not make to the finals I would love to see the quilts that did!

Congratulations on making it that far. What an honor. Enjoy getting to keep your quilt; had you won, it would have gone to the museum. Enjoy looking at it and being able to brag on it.

OMGoodness what a beautiful quilt. Congratulations on making it as far as you did. There should be no disappointment in your efforts it's a stunning example of artistry at work!

Love your quilt. Congratulations for making it as far as you did.