art quilt5 Jinny Beyer Challenge

This was one of the first challenges I entered..it had to be 80% Jinny fabric..yeah right I didnt know what Jinny Beyer fabric was..I took a trip to Logans fabric at lietchard(sp) and sold my soul for the fabric..$25 bucks a metre OMG...could I afford this challenge..the underneath fabric was a cheap one from spotlight..more my style..I had downloaded some leaves for free front the internet,which I stitched out as many as would fit in the hoop, I fused two jinnys together for stiffness, I satin stitched them out and fray checked them cut them out starched them and dried them over an inner cardboard tube from paper towel..this gave them the shape of petals..they where all reconstructed into flowers and arranged like a bouquet of flower..some where made on a daisey loom my aunt bought me when I was 12, dont ask how I knew where that was as I live in kaos..no time for house work too much creating to be done..the small flowers where wired onto florist wire and taped together anyway..this won the challenge and the prize was 150 x 1 mtr pieces the whole Jinny Beyer palette $4650 dollars..lol..remember my friend and I unpacked the box along the back of my machine( 14 foot table Gammill) and just stood there looking at it..she said"you would have to be happy with that would you?"lol..I remember when Mary Ann Roberts from the APQ mag rang me to say I had won..all I could say was OMG