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.

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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."

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Created June 3, 1996; last updated May 21, 1997; further updated Jan. 31, 1999