QuiltCon 2021 Winners Gallery

Best in Show

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Blooming

52″ x 63″

By Émilie Trahan

Joliette, Quebec, Canada

Best Machine Quilting: Frameless

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Corona Wedding Dish
60” x 70”
By Ben Darby
Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Best Machine Quilting: Framed

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Mosh Pit @ the Golden
50” x 50”
By Maria Shell
Anchorage, Alaska, United States

MQG Award of Excellence

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Still not
72” x 72”
By Chawne Kimber
Easton, Pennsylvania, United States

People’s Choice

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mid-Mod World
69” x 69”
Pieced by Julie Limbach Jones
Contributors: Members of the South Bay Quilter’s Guild
Quilted by Matt Randall

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

American Patchwork & Quilting Wedge Quilting Challenge

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1st Place: Crimped
43” x 51”
By Amy Friend
West Newbury, Massachusetts, United States

2nd Place: Azulejos
42” x 42”
By Betsy Vinegrad
Short Hills, New Jersey, United States

3rd Place: Angle of Repose
42” x 41.5”
By Ellen Meeker
Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Floral & Vine Fabric Challenge

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1st Place: Intersections #11 – Twilight
51” x 49”
By Kathy Mack
Sahuarita, Arizona, United States

2nd Place: Light Cycle
34” x 37”
By Kelly Spell
Hixon, Tennessee, United States

3rd Place: Game Night
47” x 58”
By Sarah Ruiz
Houston, Texas, United States

Appliqué

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1st Place: Dresden Coffins
59” x 59”
By Andrea Salisbury
St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

2nd Place: When Life Gives You Lemons
42” x 42”
By Tighe Flanagan
Washington, D.C., United States

3rd Place: Naïve Melody
60” x 60”
Pieced by Lucy Engels
Quilted by Tatyana Duffie
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Group or Bee Quilts

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1st Place: Urban Emergence
40” x 42”
By Ellyn Zinsmeister
Allen, Texas, United States

2nd Place: Being Human
85” x 85”
By Susan Santistevan
Denver, Colorado, United States

3rd Place: Social Distancing Quilt
50” x 58”
By Laura Loewen
Lafayette, Colorado, United States

Handwork

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1st Place: Follow Your Arrow
66” x 80”
By Andrea Salisbury
St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

2nd Place: Taking Up Space (Do the Work)
56” x 71”
By Melanie Tuazon
Livingston, New Jersey, United States

3rd Place: slow poetry 1: the one with apprehension
44” x 47”
By Chawne Kimber
Easton, Pennsylvania, United States

Improvisation

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1st Place: Orange Sky
55” x 72”
By Annie Hudnut
Loveland, Colorado, United States

2nd Place: Orangeraie
53” x 67”
By Sophie Zaugg
Le Sentier, Switzerland

3rd Place: Lines of Communication
33.5” x 31.”
By Suzanne Sadilek
Roeland Park, Kansas, United States

Minimalist Design

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1st Place: Krosby
60” x 70”
By Elizabeth Miceli
Sugar Land, Texas, United States

2nd Place: If Men Were Angels
56” x 56”
By Erin Hammer
Fitchburg, Wisconsin, United States

3rd Place: DK Meet EK
62.5” x 53”
By Deborah Krajkowski
Stuart, Florida, United States

Modern Traditionalism

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1st Place: One block
46” x 46”
By Silvia Glaubach
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

2nd Place: Finger Paints
61” x 63”
By Laura Loewen
Lafayette, Colorado, United States

3rd Place: Spherize
61” x 61”
By Nancy Lambert
Greensboro, Georgia, United States

Piecing

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1st Place: Everything All At Once
58” x 58”
By Maria Shell
Anchorage, Alaska, United States

2nd Place: My Alhambra
51” x 50”
By Tighe Flanagan
Washington D.C., United States

3rd Place: Shape I’m In
72” x 70”
By Susan de Vanny
Greenvale, Australia

Small Quilts

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1st Place: Watercolor Study No.6
26” x 25”
By Audrey Esarey
Louisville, Kentucky, United States

2nd Place: Dusk
24-3/4” x 24-3/4”
By Marilyn Knepp
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

3rd Place: Graffiti
13” x 14”
By Debra Jalbert
Clermont, Florida, United States

Use of Negative Space

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1st Place: Downstream
35” x 45”
By Yvonne Fuchs
Keaau, Hawaii, United States

2nd Place: Fanfold
65” x 65”
Pieced by Caroline Hadley
Quilted by Valerie Cooper 
East Melbourne, Australia

3rd Place: Q is for Quarantine
79” x 90”
By Renee Tallman
Anacortes, Washington, United States

Youth Quilts

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1st Place: Self Portrait #1
21” x 29”
By Lucas Weisleder, age 10
Bexley, Ohio, United States

2nd Place: The X of Creation
26” x 27”
By Max Wackerman, age 11
Seattle, Washington, United States

3rd Place: Under the Arch
16” x 16”
By Neal Millett, age 10
Iowa, United States

Judge’s Choice

Jen Carlton-Bailly

Corona Wedding Dish
60” x 70”
By Ben Darby
Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Nydia Kehnle

Blooming
52” x 63”
By Émilie Trahan
Joliette, Quebec, Canada

Pantera Saint-Montaigne

Azulejos
42” x 42”
By Betsy Vinegrad
Short Hills, New Jersey, United States