Crazy Cow Ladies Quilt

 What do you do if 

your local quilt shop hosts a

Challenge Quilt Contest

and you are given fabric like this to work with?

 Seriously?

All I see are Crazy Cow Ladies 

dressed up in costumes, 

with a smattering of pink ribbons round about.

Odd

  Very odd fabric.

 But if you are 

Connie Keyt

you don't let the fabric limit your imagination.

 Connie can turn the more bizarre fabric

into a work of stunning beauty.

 Cows doing the can-can

become gorgeous ruched flowers.

 Each year Connie buys a few yards 

of her local quilt store's challenge fabric,

like Kitchen Bouquet

 And turns them into the most 

beautiful baskets.

 All hand pieced and hand quilted

 with 3-D flowers

 that match any garden in creativity.

 I wanted to touch every piece.

Fall Flowers

 turn into Fall Baskets

Many thanks to 

Connie Keyt

for coming to our Nimble Thimbles guild and

presenting her inspirational trunk show.

Now when I look at Challenge fabrics

I will think of Connie

and realize that

even the ugliest and outlandish of fabrics 

has unlimited potential.

There ought to be a life lesson in there.