So VERY, VERY Excited!!!!!

Panel made for Tonya's Get Well Quilt - Fall 2009

August 2007 ~ I signed up for Tonya's First Ever Online Class . . . 

Who could have known how that decision would change my life!  

Not only did I learn how to make free-pieced letters, 

I learned ever so much about trusting my own quilty-judgment 

when it came to colors and design and style.

In November 2007 our international class had its own private challenge ~

 to make name blocks for Tonya as our surprise thank you's for leading the class.  

That's when my avatar was created.

And Sometimes Y
Designed and Created by Julie Sefton
Quilted by Chris Ballard

 And Sometimes Y was finished in December 2007. 

 [Little did I know then that come August 2008 

And Sometimes Y would be an AQS Nashville semi-finalist]

Flying Monkeys
Designed and Created by Julie Sefton
Custom Quilted by Chris Ballard

Along came March 2008 ~ 

Tonya issued a new challenge involving repetition [Summer 2008].

When my Eureka moment happened, Flying Monkeys was the result!  

[I repeated the use of yellow and black for my first 'two-color' quilt]

Photo by Tonya Ricucci

In September 2008 Tonya issued her Priority HOPE Challenge for AAQI 

and I was fortunate enough to be her assistant.

~ ~ ~

Now, after months and months (and months) of Tonya's hard work 

and my own months of waiting since I shipped a box to her publisher ~ 

I can share that both And Sometimes Y AND Flying Monkeys are in Tonya's new book!

Back when Tonya taped an episode for The Quilt Show, 

Flying Monkeys was there (it was too large for the set, so a backstage photo op was arranged.)

Not only that, but images of the two quilts are featured 

in the Amazon listing for the book 

[check out the 'look inside' feature while you're there ~ AMAZING!]

And, as if all that wasn't enough, 

images of the two quilts are featured in the publisher's website listing for the book!

Tonya holding Flying Monkeys in Martingale booth at 2010 Houston Quilt Show

I've pre-ordered several copies  ~

December 6 is only a month away 

and I can't wait to hold the book in MY hands!

I am SO VERY VERY EXCITED for Tonya 

and completely thrilled to be a part of it all . . . 

[just ask DH if you don't think I'm excited about all this!]

There's SO much more to this story

[like all the other great quilters I've met],

but for now it is enough to say

THANK YOU, TONYA ~

for EVERYTHING!!!!!

Quiltdivajulie
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