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Fowl and Flora by
Rosalie Johansen - 1st Place |
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created a state bird and flower quilt many years
ago. Over the years her heirloom was
misplaced. When I found a group of state
bird and flower transfer patterns several years
ago, I knew that I wanted to create a heirloom
quilt that emulated hers. Hand
embroidered, machine pieced, machine quilted. |
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90 x 112 |
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A Quilt For Every
Home by Deanna Remter - 2nd
Place |
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Blocks are
colored with crayons then embellished with hand
embroidery. Machine pieced, machine quilted. |
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46 x 59 |
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Alice's Garden by
Lisa Jenni - 3rd Place |
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reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland", that is how
her garden must look like, but it all started as
a challenge. A while ago, Alex Anderson
from "Simply Quilts" challenged 3 artists to
make a Scrap-Bag-Quilt. One of the artists
was Colleen Wise, a member of CQA/Seattle.
This got the CQA-program chair started to hand
out brown bags with odd fabrics, also a set of
rules: A little of every fabric must be used,
except one fabric could be added and one taken
away. The choices were very wide such as
different heavy decorator and slippery polyester
drapery fabric, old-fashioned quilting cottons,
poly-blends and sheers, shiny fabric for evening
wear and fashion. Trouble all along.
Each of the 6 finished quilts was very
different, but equally inventive in use of the
given "strange" materials. I found out
that polyester drapery quilts nicely but is
impossible to mark on. Everything that
contains at least some cotton takes dye, white
tablecloth linen is a beautiful, fascinating,
but loosely woven fabric and clear plastic
packaging material can be sewn with your home
sewing machine! Oh, I had a good time.
I just love a good challenge. Machine pieced,
machine quilted. |
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14 x 30 |
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