Awards
Innovations, Tacoma, WA, USA
Every year, MQTS organizes the Innovations
quilt show in Tacoma, Washington (U.S.A.). One of the specialities of the show is how the prizes are attributed. It is the only peer-jugded machine-quilting show in the United States.
Innovations 2007
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This somewhat unusual quilt originated from the idea to use holes as a design element for a quilt. When I stumbled upon some wonderful brown and creme-colored fabric, nicely arranged side-by-side in one of my fabric stores, I had to think of a quilt design featuring rich pralinés in an opulent setting—with zero calories! The finished quilt brings memories of hot chocolate and Latte Macchiato at a nice café. The inner frame with the holes, the scallopped border and the quilting give the quilt a 'silky' appearance.
Chocolatte won first place in the Unusual Quilts category!
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International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Since 1974, the International Quilt
Association (IQA) has been organizing the International Quilt Festival
in Houston, Texas.
As this is the world's largest and most renowned quilt expo, numerous
famous quilt artists from all over the world compete to have their quilts accepted for this contest.
International Quilt Festival 2006
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Just in time for the deadline, I was able to finish my contest quilt Kaleidoscope Twist.
I was thrilled to learn that this quilt has been accepted as one of 360 finalists to be judged and displayed at the 2006 International Quilt Festival.
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Machine Quilters Showcase (MQS)
Since 1997, the International Machine
Quilters
Association (IMQA) has been
organizing the Machine Quilters
Showcase (MQS), an annual contest, exhibit and show designed for
professional machine quilters from all over the world.
MQS 2006
At very short notice, I found myself being talked into
entering a quilt in this event. Since I'm still a pretty novice longarm
quilter and at the date of the deadline only have had my longarm
machine for less than a year, I was qualified to - among others - enter
my quilt in the Rookie category.
My quilt Trinity wins the Rookie
of the Year 2006 award.
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International Lake Constance Quilt Festival
Since 2004, Ginie Curtze has been
organizing the International Lake Constance Quilt Festival in Southern Germany. Every
spring, Ginie chooses a dfferent focus theme that quilters are invited
to contribute contest quilts for. For more information on this event,
see Ginie
Curtze's
website.
Lake Constance Quilt Festival 2006 - Theme "Amish Inspiration"
Inspiration for my contest entry hit me during the night - and
I managed to piece and quilt this wall quilt in almost no time.
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My quilt Round Trip – Squared is the
result of two
extremes clashing: From the contents of a box of solid colored fabric
scraps, I cut 1" squares that then were combined to 3" 9 patch blocks.
These 9 patch blocks were alternated with solid black squares of the
same size in a trip-around-the-world layout.
Totally "un-Amish", I have pieced the top on my sewing machine - and
machine quilted the whole thing on my longarm machien! In my quilting,
I have contiuned the trip-around-the-world setting and the used the
same quilting motifs in the black squares filling the individual trip
rows.
The result is a traditional Trip Around the World quilt - with a
contemporary look:
"Round Trip – Squared".
Round Trip –
Squared wins the award for Excellent
Interpretation of Theme "Amish Inspiration".
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Lake Constance Quilt Festival 2005 - Theme "Hermann Hesse and
the Magic of Colors"
For the above contest, I have made the following two quilts
that were on display during the entire length of the QUilt Festival.
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My quilt Fifalter is inspired by
Hermann Hesse's essay "On Butterflies". At one point it says:
"[…] It is that
the butterfly is special in not being just another animal. In fact, it
isn't an
animal at all but its last, most illustrious and magnificent and at the
same
time most essential state. It is the splendid, creative and at the same
time
mortal state of an animal destined to mate that earlier was a sleeping
pupa and
prior to that a voracious caterpillar. The butterfly doesn’t live to
feed and
to age; it simply lives to love and to multiply. Thus, its attire is
highly
spectacular; its wings, several times bigger than its body, speak in
extremely
multifarious and fancy shapes, colors and patterns to express the
secret of its
life, which is to live more intensely, to magically and seductively
attract the
opposite gender and to celebrate the feast of reproduction more
glorious than
ever. At all times, humans have felt this meaning of the butterfly and
its
magnificence – it is a simple and unambiguous revelation. Being a
magnificent
lover brightly transformed, the butterfly has become a synonym for both
ephemerality and eternal continuance. In early times as well as today,
people
have understood the butterfly to be a simile for and heraldic animal of
the
soul. […]"
Translation: Birgit Schueller |
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My quilt Rainbow
Mosaic is based on the second verse of
the Hermann Hesse poem "Magic of Colors". The translated
workign is as follows:
"[…]
White and black
like warm
and cool
to each other are
being drawn,
forever from the
rooting chaos
the rainbow is
rising anew.
[…]"
Translation: Birgit Schueller
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Hoffman Challenge
Every year, the team from Hoffman
California Fabrics chooses an upcoming fabric
design, and
then issues a challenge to quilt, clothing, accessory, and doll
makers to create original items using the fabric. The challenge
curator and a group of assistants jury the entries, and then a
team of judges selects the award winners. The juried collections
then travel to be exhibited by quilt and other fiber guilds,
shops, museums, and textile shows. The exhibitions are displayed
and enjoyed in several hundred locations across the US and
Canada.
Additional information on the contest can be found on the Hoffman
Challenge website.
Hoffman Challenge 2005
For Hoffman Challenge 2005, I sent in two quilts. After
disappearing in the mail for almost six weeks, they finally
made it safe and sound to their destination. Of course, the deadline
had passed and the jurying had taken place without my two quilts. Aside
from the relief of knowing that both quilts were undamaged, I was very
happy to hear that both quilts were still scheduled to go traveling the
U.S.A. for the next year!!
| Swarming
Out is travelling in group C.
For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge
2005, check out the following links:
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| Swarming
Out on display at a show in Columbus, Ohio (Thanks for the
picture, Robin!) |
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| Winding Wayis travelling
in group D.
For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge,see:
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Hoffman Challenge 2004
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entry Highlights wins 3rd place in
the Pieced category.
For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge
2004, check out the following links:
For a full size view, click on the picture.
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Friends of mine in the US have visited my quilt at
several of its exhibition locations and were so kind to take "live" pictures... |
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On exhibit at Quilt'N'Things in
California (Thank you, Rasa!)
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At the Rotary Club Antique
Quilt Show in Paducah, KY
(Thanks a lot, Teri!)
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Hoffman Challenge 2003
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Beautiful New York Cherry Garden was my entry in the 2003
Hoffman Challenge.
For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge
2003, check out the following link:
For a full size view, click on the picture.
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Hoffman Challenge 2002
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was selected as one of 120 out of 744 Hoffman
Challenge entries in 2002 to travel the US and Canada for a year.
For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge
2002, check out the following links:
For a full size view, click on the picture.
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| This
picture was taken when my quilt was on display at the Corona, CA show
(Thanks a lot, Linda!). For a full size view, click on the picture. |
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