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| 2008 Contest Winners - Theme: Sawtooth |
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First Place Winner
Berry Patch
by Claudia Clark Myers and Marilyn Badger
of Duluth, MN ©
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Second Place Winner
Web of Life
by Ann Horton
of Redwood Valley, CA ©
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Third Place Winner
Carmelized Sawblades
by Ann L. Petersen
of Aurora, CO ©
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Fourth Place Winner
Beyond the Sea
by Nancy Brown of Oakland, CA, and Jill Bryant
of St. Louis, MO ©
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Fifth Place Winner
Lemon-Lime
by Nancy Lambert
of Pittsburgh, PA ©
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The NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM, Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, is pleased to announce the 18 winning quilts of the 2008 Sawtooth-themed "New Quilts from an Old Favorite" contest. These innovative quilts represent quilters from 12 different U.S. states as well as Japan.
Sponsored by Clover Needlecraft Inc., Fairfield Processing Corporation and Janome America, Inc., this international contest challenges quiltmakers to create original quilts based on a specific quilt pattern. Inspired by the traditional pieced Sawtooth pattern, the quiltmakers have modified the design in imaginative ways, providing a wonderful look at the skills, techniques and creativity of today's quiltmakers. All quilt finalists will be on exhibit at MAQS March 28 – June 12, 2008 and then travel to various museums through December 2009.
First place was awarded to Claudia Clark Myers and Marilyn Badger of Duluth, MN, for their quilt titled Berry Patch. The classic Sawtooth block takes new shape through combination of curved piecing, fused appliqué with satin stitch, invisible machine appliqué, machine embroidery and machine quilting. Set on a background of detailed free-motion quilting, Myers and Badger’s quilt is an asymmetrical layout with the traditional pointed Sawtooth design.
The design of the second place quilt, Web of Life, by Ann Horton of Redwood Valley, CA, is a boldly colored tropical design using the Sawtooth block to create a spider’s web surrounded by embroidered wildlife. Ann L. Peterson of Aurora, CO, used warm variations of brown to produce the third place winner, Carmelized Sawblades. Using a combination of machine couching and machine quilting, she made a 3-D effect of Sawtooth blocks cutting through each other.
Fourth place winner was Beyond the Sea by Nancy Brown and Jill Bryant of Oakland, CA. This duo used the Sawtooth block to create teeth of big fish chasing smaller fish. The fifth place winner was Lemon-Lime by Nancy Lambert of Pittsburgh, PA. Lambert used a mix of the traditional Sawtooth variations with satin-stitched embroidery in shades of yellow and green.
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| Other quilts which will be featured in the exhibit include: |
Radiance, Robin Brooks of Asheville, NC
A Gathering of Geckos, Sherri Bain Driver of Tucson, AZ
Circular Saw, Nancy Eisenhauer of Belleville, IL
Down the Rabbit Hole…Or the Cheshire Cat's Revenge, Robin Gausebeck of Rockford, IL
Indian Fire Ring, Julia Graber of Brooksville, MS
Sawdust (1,633 Pieces), Karen Griska of White Plains. NY
Convergence, Robin M. Haller of Carbondale, IL
Hana-bi (Flowers in the night sky), Yoshiko Kobayashi of Katano City, Japan
Silent Mountain, Barbara Ortiz of Chester, CA
Spinning Out, Spinning In 5, Helen Remick of Seattle, WA
Outbursts of Joy, Cathy Pilcher Sperry of West Chester, OH
Sawtooth Spin, Karen Watts of Houston, TX
Sawtooth Garden, Sandra Werlich of Carbondale, IL
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A book featuring full-color photos of the 18 finalists and their award winning quilts, biographical information about each quilter in addition to tips, techniques and patterns will be published by the American Quilter’s Society and available for purchase at the Museum in March 2008.
Quilters wishing to enter the 2009 New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Burgoyne Surrounded contest can request an entry form by sending an SASE to MAQS, PO Box 1540, Paducah, KY 42002-1540 or visit the museum’s website at www.quiltmuseum.org. Upcoming themes are Sunflower in 2010, Orange Peel in 2011 and Baskets in 2012.
The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society is a non-profit institution located in downtown Paducah, KY. The Museum is open year-round Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. CST. The Museum is also open on Sundays 1-5 p.m. April - October. MAQS is accessible. For more information on this and other programming, please call 270-442-8856 or visit www.quiltmuseum.org.
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215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky 42001 | Phone: 270-442-8856 | FAX: 270-442-5448 |
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