Cody's Garden, by Krisi Santilla
Cody's Garden
Created by Krisi Santilla
copyright 1996
Every so often I find a picture of a quilt on the Web that I know
I'm going to want to see again. If that quilt happens to be in one of
the fine online quilt shows organized by Turtle or a local quilt guild, I
know it won't be around for more than a month. So when I spotted Krisi Santilla's "Cody's Garden"
at Turtle's Quilting
Playground (no longer on the Web) in May 1996, I wrote Krisi to see if she
would mind if I
grabbed a copy of Cody to put on my Web page. Krisi told me that Cody
had won the viewers choice third place award for wall hangings in the Friendship Star Quilters
Guild Garden Party Quilt Show in April 1996, and that another
picture would be available on that website, but also just temporarily.
Clicking on the image let's
you see a closeup view
My own crew of seven quilt inspectors, who supervise every
quilt I make, declared third place to be a travesty. "Nothing short of
Best of Show," they howled. "They must not have allowed the cats to
vote." Cody's Garden won the "Turtle's Choice Award" for wall
hangings in the May 1996 show on Turtle's Quilting Playground, so my
cats are now satisfied.
About the wall hanging, Krisi says, "This is an original small
wallhanging that I designed for a colorwash challenge for my guild's
quilt show. My family and I moved to our present house about two years
ago, and one of my five cats decided he didn't like the new neighborhood.
We only moved about 1/2 mile away from our previous house, and every
morning Cody would walk to the old neighborhood and every evening I would
go get him. Finally, months later, a family in our old neighborhood offered
to adopt him, and although I still visit him, I made this wallhanging to
remind me of him."
Please respect Krisi's work by not copying without her permission.
Contact Krisi Santilla at santilla@umd5.umd.edu with your
compliments and questions
This page was selected as a link in the Mining
Company Quilting Bits article in December 1997
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Created June 3, 1996; last updated May 21, 1997; further updated Jan. 31,
1999
