Today's Woman is a local free magazine that highlights some interesting women in the community. This is the cover of the magazine. And inside Jennifer's exhibit is the #1 thing to do in Louisville this month!
In all seriousness, art therapy helped her through this horrible time. There is no better way to channel your energy in a constructive way than through art. Whether its making a quilt, taking photos or using Photoshop, creativity is a wonderful nonmedicating release that makes you feel good. Make Art! Make Art! Make Art! It's so good for the soul in so many ways.
I hope that's okay, as that's what I filled the form out to enter the challenge. 
light, medium 
and dark fabrics 
I've chosen for the outer border. Thisi is called auditioning fabrics. A digital camera really helps when you have to make the choices. Another method I like to use is looking at the quilt in a mirror. It allows a better perspective for auditioning. You can also look through the wrong lens of a pair of binoculars. 
The result was the art therapist at Kosair, liked what she was doing so much, the hospital is sponsoring her art show, spending thousands of dollars printing and framing 80 of these photos/art works. 
Then a trip to the antique store and I got a new
turkey platter. Ours broke and this one is pretty unique. This is an old sewing accessory.
No discount on
that, she knew we were a quilt group so she didn't let that one go. But, it was too cute! 
on my KS 1 inch hexagon quilt. Using a needle you stack the 6 hexes and 1 hex to make your flower and pierce it with needle and run thread up the middle with the knot at the back of the stack. 
This holds your stacks of flowers, so 
they don't go slipping and sliding out of order and you don't end up cutting unnecessarily. 
Remove the needle and cut the thread short, but, too short that the flowers slide off the thread. Do not knot the thread so you can remove the stacks. 