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Happy Villages Student Gallery

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Two wonderful Alaskan villages by Linda Creech

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Mary Oros' oriental village

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"Hersheyville" and "Under the Yum Yum Tree" by Lucille Makrin

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Lisbeth Bergstrom and her friends taught each other how to make these wonderful  Happy Villages from my book. Click on the following link and go to "husquiltskurs" to check out the fun they had making their villages! www.oresundsquiltarna.se

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"I think you should put a warning on your book that "Happy Villages" are highly addictive and may result in even less housework being done!"

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Claire - age 13, and Cecilia - age 11, made the great Happy Villages above. The bridges are their very own creations! Their great aunt Mary and aunt Janine had taken the workshop during the day, and by that evening had shared the secrets of fabric collage with the girls.

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Sharon Fry, Sonoma, CA presenting her first Happy Village quilt made as a house warming gift to her sister Suzanne.

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 "... to let you know how much I enjoyed the Happy Villages technique. Now that I have done these first two [see above] I am definitely hooked and going to use this technique to interpret some photographs I have taken over time." Dominga, CA

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Maya Telford, British Columbia  www.dyelicious.com used her hand-dyed fabrics to create her first Happy Village. 

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Sharon Rendfrey, NJ: "I finished my Happy Village ... can't wait to start my next one"

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Marjorie from Undercover Quilters, PA used favorite Black and White photographs from Germany in her first village. 

 sSA550275.jpg (108923 bytes) Judy Anderson's village in her longarm ready for quilting

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Sisters, Grace and Beth in New Zealand made amazing Happy Villages  and mother Debby added the final quilting touches. WOW!

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Teacher, Gaynor Lincoln taught  her 9 & 10 year old students at the Westbrook Primary School, in Rotorua, New Zealand how to create Happy Villages using colored construction paper and crayons. Such talent and creativity!!

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It's a chameleon and not a village, however, these happy vests were inspired from my "Comma Chameleons" pattern, which uses the same approach to fabric collage. In these adorable vests, Gabi Girndt-Sharp from Germany, matched my chameleons with the perfect co-ordinating fabric!