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Sometimes you just get lucky. TQS member mkdquilts was at Quilters Take Manhattan 2015 where she spotted this quilt being "re-donated" to the Quilt Alliance by former Quilt Alliance President, Meg Cox. She was able to purchase the quilt and wants to share the amazing detail with you. For example, the background of the quilt was created using decorative stitches. Pat Holly's Chintz Bird won Second Place in the Quilt Alliance's "My Quilts/Our History" contest in 2008.

Here was the theme for that year:

The competition celebrates The Alliance for American Quilts' fifteen-year mission to document, preserve and share our great quilt heritage. Contest quilts should reflect your personal history as a quiltmaker. Your quilt might celebrate your favorite techniques or patterns, illustrate the ways in which your quilting skills have developed over the years, or serve as a tribute to a quilt teacher or other mentor. Just as long as the quilt's design is tied to your quilt story in some way, and the finished quilt is a 15" by 15" square.

Learn from Pat in Show 608: Mastering Machine Appliqué.