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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

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!

Chocolatte
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Chocolatte at Innovations 2007
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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

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.

Kaleidoscope Twist
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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.

Trinity at MQS 2006
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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.

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".

Round Trip Squared at Hoeri 2006
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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.

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
Fifalter at Hoeri 2005
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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

Rainbow Mosaic at Hoeri 2005
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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:

Swarming Out
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Swarming Out on display at a show in Columbus, Ohio (Thanks for the picture, Robin!)
Swarming Out in Columbus (Ohio)
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Winding Wayis travelling in group D.

For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge,see:

Winding Way
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Hoffman Challenge 2004

My entry Highlights wins 3rd place in the Pieced category.

For additional information on the Hoffman Challenge 2004, check out the following links:

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Highlights
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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...

\"Highlights"

On exhibit at Quilt'N'Things in California (Thank you, Rasa!)

Highlights
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At the Rotary Club Antique
Quilt Show in Paducah, KY
(Thanks a lot, Teri!)

Hoffman Challenge 2003

My 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:

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My Beautiful New York Cherry Garden
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Hoffman Challenge 2002

Fanny-Go-Round 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:

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Fanny-Go-Round
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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.
Fanny-Go-Round in California
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