Jen's Scrapbook
Jennifer Shackelford Perdue
Jen, receiving her Young
Designer's Award at AQS 200
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Jen with her quilt Pea-Lime & Paisley
With Paul and Mildred Statler
Jen and Gina Perkes
celebrate their wins in
Paducah
Ron Parker and Jen
First Place and Best
Computerized Quilting at
Kaleidoscope of Quilts,
Sylvania, OH, 2007
First Place and Best Machine
Quilting at Sauder Village,
Archbold, OH 2008
Vintage Moments quilt, pieced by Joy Flynn and quilted by Jen,
won a First Place and Judge's Recognition at the symposium in
Cullman, Alabama, 2008
We're so excited about the
news from Paducah!
Jennifer received the third
place award in the Young
Designers category at AQS.
This new award was sponsored
by Olfa and was established to
encourage more young people
to become involved in sewing
for quilts that would show
Jennifer received the third
place award in the Young
Designers category at AQS.
This new award was sponsored
is a traditional idea, but she
chose non-traditional design
elements, including circles,
encourage more young people
swirls and paisleys for the
swirls and paisleys for the
quilting motifs. She used
quilting motifs. She used
AutoSketch, on the computer,
to plan the layout of her
quilting design and, of course,
stitched it out with the
Gammill/Statler Stitcher.   The
judges were impressed with
her technical execution and
her design layout.
Jen was excited to have her
work recognized and is looking
forward to quilting more for
herself and quilting for others.
Let us know if you have a quilt
top you’d like Jen to quilt for
you.
Other Awards
A simple batik baby quilt,
made by
Annie Chittenden,
was finished with
flowers and pinwheels.
This sampler quilt was a wonderful challenge. Every block is
custom quilted. Below, you can see some of the details.
We loved quilting this
crazy  Dresden Plate
style quilt with a rainbow
thread, spirals, hearts
and flowers.
An "almost" whole cloth, designed by Jen, includes reverse applique
Shown at NQA 2010.
Custom quilting on a 1930s sampler