Over the weekend I enjoyed wandering through a quilt show hosted by the local guild, West Sound Quilters. This is the second time I have gone to their show. This show is fairly small and non-juried. The people are really warm and welcoming. Like many shows, there is the opportunity to vote for the Viewer’s Choice award. As my friend Annette and I looked at quilts, we talked about which one would be our choice for this.
About half way through the quilts, one quilt caught our eye. We took a second look to figure out what exactly we were seeing. Then we started to laugh, and laugh, and laugh some more. Don’t worry. We weren’t being rude. This quilt was hysterical. The title was Sinbonnet Sue II. Does this give you a hint as to why we chuckled so much?
The artist, Georgia Overstrud, designed a quilt of slightly irreverent Sunbonnet Sue blocks. Just my sort of humor! I took some pictures of my favorites.
Pickpocket Sue is going for Sam’s wallet here.
Here she is seen leaving the tattoo parlor, again!
I cannot decide which of these I like better, Pole Dancer Sue or White Lightening Sue. Both of them are so much fun. I wish I had taken a closer look at how Georgia created the paper money being tossed up to Sue.
Oh Sue – Couldn’t you have wiped your hands off before sneakily touching the quilt?? I love the Hershey fabric. The squares on the 1st place patchwork were so tiny and Georgia did an excellent job with the ‘melted chocolate’. 🙂
Finally, my favorite – Sue cannot help herself and peaks under the kilt of this bag piper!
This was the favorite and my friend and I both voted for it as our Viewer’s Choice. It is the second Sinbonnet Sue quilt made by Ms. Overstrud. The last one took Viewer’s Choice in 2006. Wonder if she will win again. The guild hasn’t announced the winner yet, but judging by people’s responses to the quilt, I think she has a good chance of winning.
Fortunately my friend Annette thought to take a picture of the whole quilt. There are so many cute details to look at. I know you will enjoy this!
Also, this might be of interest to you if you once used Bloglovin as your blog reading tool. I always did and suddenly it was broken. It just didn’t work at all and no one seemed to know why. Yesterday, after months and months of nothing, I received a Bloglovin summary email and was surprised to see when I clicked through, the site seems to work again. So, if this was your preferred method, it seems they have fixed it. So strange!
Reminder – how are the Positivity Quilts coming along? Are you quilting yours? Maybe even binding it? I am looking forward to the link up over Labor Day weekend. Hopefully yours will be done and ready to share!! Thank you so much for making a quilt and donating it to your organization or to Mercy Hospital.
Sinbonnet Sue is hysterical. And I too, am amazed by Bloglovin…my fear is it will not last but maybe I will go back.
Isn’t it strange though? No notices from Bloglovin as to what went wrong or if it would be fixed and then boom, there it is? Really odd.
Oh,my! The Sinbonnet Sue is a hoot!🤣. Would love to make one! That and the ways Sue died, that was a long time ago, no pattern, some may not get all the references. Drinking Koolaid at Jonestown, Chernobyl. I’m going to try and make my own just am not good at drawing. Sue really gets around and into trouble! 🥰
Oh wow – I hadn’t heard of that one. How funny. I need to look around for that online. Maybe there are pictures of it. Have fun Pam!
Love this Sinbonnet Sue! So funny! And creative.
It was really creative – I wish I could see the first one she did. It said this is her second Sinbonnet Sue quilt. Great fun.
I shared Sinbonnet Sue with my husband and we laughed together. Thanks for sharing! I miss Bloglovin so I need to take a look!
I showed Ray and he thought it wad so funny. Glad you both enjoyed it!
Sinbonnet Sue! What a sense of humor and wonderful creativity. I tried Bloglovin years ago and didn’t like it, but I know a lot of folks who depended on it. I’m glad it’s working again. And I quilted my Positivity quilt yesterday. The binding is cut, but not sewn on yet – does it need to be machine sewn on both sides or can I do the second side by hand? (I prefer by hand, but can be persuaded to do it by machine… I’ll just need a new box of bandaids to patch up all the holes the pins make in me!)
Oh Katie – however you prefer binding works for us. No problem there! We are just grateful you are making a quilt for the hospital. Thank you so much!
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking something as I looked at Sinbonnet Sue (that name – LOL) – the blocks are so clever and fun. I love the bagpiper one – hahahaha – and the chocolate bar. I got the Bloglovin notice, too, and need to take a closer look. I sure have missed blogs I’d see there, and couldn’t remember all of them. Hope it works now, but I don’t trust it much.
Glad you liked it Wendy. It was so silly.
I am with you on Bloglovin. I went through it and it seemed like not all of the blogs I used to see there were popping up. (But your posts are there!)
That quilt is hilarious! Thanks for sharing it. I’ve been getting bloglovin too but I thought it was because I might have jump started it by looking for a blog that I hadn’t heard from in a long time. That blog only had bloglovin as an option to follow (no email option) so I signed up and started getting those bloglovin notices again. Let’s hope it’s fixed!
That is funny, especially the bagpiper!! Thanks for the laugh this morning.
You’re welcome Carole. Glad you enjoyed it. I got that package out in the mail yesterday. Hope you collect many sweet quilts for the holidays!
Sinbonnet Sue is my kind of humor too – lol! The Hershey bar/don’t touch the quilts is wonderful, and I love peeking under the kilt – bahahahah! She sounds like someone I would like to know. 😉
I totally agree Linda. I was actually thinking I want to meet the quilter who came up with these funny blocks. She also seems like someone I would like to know. 🙂
Oh my goodness, thank you for the chuckle. I know I’m a day late reading about Sinbonnet Sue, but what an absolute hoot. I hope you have a great week!
Same to you Yvonne. That Sinbonnet Sue quilt brought so many smiles to people – glad you enjoyed the silliness of it!
Such cute Sinbonnett Sues. Made me laugh out loud.
Such cute Sinbonnett Sues. Made me laugh out loud.
I have not written this before.
That was hilarious, thank you so much for sharing Sinbonnet!
Thank you for sharing this, Bernie. Sinbonnet Sue is a delight. I had to look up White Lightning, ahem. My favorite is Nosey Sue 😀 I’d love to meet the quiltmaker. I have a feeling we’d have a lot in common.