Award Winners - Road to California Quilters Conference & Showcase 2019

$10,000 Sponsor: Gammill Title: Garden Variety Sampler Maker: Janet Stone Quilter: Janet Stone Design Basis: Maker’s Original Design This quilt is a nod to my love of antique samplers. The layout was loosely inspired by a page from an antique children’s book by Walter Crane from 1878. Color palette was inspired by the beautiful Japanese taupe quilts I admire. This is number 17 in my alphabet quilt series.

$7,500 Sponsor: Road to California, Inc. Title: Spangled Maker: Gail Stepanek Quilter: Jan Hutchison Design Basis: Maker's Original Design The use of background fabric in some of the petals softens the look of this dahlia block variation. The swag border and tiny black dots in the sashing are fusible glitter vinyl. Applique was hand done. Jan's original quilting designs add a unique dimension to the quilt.

$5,000 Sponsor: Handi Quilter Title: Maria's Tree Maker: Linda Anderson Quilter: Linda Anderson Design Basis: Photograph In this village in Oaxaca, Mexico, the traditional dress huipils are decorated with stylized red, geometric trees, a unique design for each of the 4 stages a girl goes through until marriage. Maria's tree is a sprawling, wildly branching sapling, characterizing a child running about and stretching upwards day by day like a fast growing plant.

$5,000 Sponsor: Janome Longarm Title: Moonlight Sonata Maker: Susan Stewart Quilter: Susan Stewart Design Basis: Maker's Original Design The lacy, watercolor-y flowers were my inspiration. I embroidered them on both white and black Radiance, and joined them with a scalloped, bias lace treatment in a very simple pinwheel. The borders are embroidered with an engraved-looking design, and attached with lace yardage and machine embroidery. The pieces were densely quilted, then joined together and bordered with free-standing lace, which I also embroidered.

$5,000 Sponsor: Pollard's Sew Creative Title: Seasons of Life Maker: Sandra Mollon Quilter: Sandra Mollon Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I was inspired to make a new album quilt, after many years of making traditional Baltimore Album style quilts. It is made mostly of silk fabrics, including silk dupioni, front ant back, with various pieces of hand dyed silk for most of the appliqués. It also has some ribbon trim and cotton trim, eyelash yarn, Ultrasuede, and cotton and silk embroidery floss, with a small amount of ink embellishment and beads.

$5,000 Sponsor: Moore's Sewing Center Title: Sea Breeze Maker: Joanne Baeth Quilter: Joanne Baeth Design Basis: Maker's Original Design My family and I salmon fish on the Oregon Coast for two months every summer. I was initially inspired by a wall of hanging buoys that I observed. I hand painted the buoys in bright colors which inspired the vivid colors in the small boats and buildings. The overall scene was inspired by several waterfront settings that I made sketches of. The sky and roofs of the bait shops were painted. Inks, thread painting, and heat distressing were used.

$2,500 Sponsor: World of Quilt Travel Title: Joy Of Spring Maker: Jackie Perry Quilter: Jackie Perry Design Basis: Adult Coloring Book "Joy of Spring" was inspired by an adult coloring book. With the artist's permission, I created the quilt. It is completely hand quilted and includes hand stippling, ruched flowers and crystals.

$2,500 Sponsor: Baby Lock Title: Summer Christmas Maker: Mariya Waters Quilter: Gina Perkes-Tidwell Design Basis: Maker's Original Design "Inspired by large scale Victorian stencils and the Tudor Rose this quilt was designed to celebrate Christmas in the hot climates of the Southern hemisphere where gardens are in full bloom". As collaborative partnership it has taken 4 years to applique and a year to quilt."

$2,500 Sponsor: Baby Lock Title: Dance Of The Twirly Girls Maker: Andrea Brokenshire Quilter: Andrea Brokenshire Design Basis: Maker's Original Design This quilt is dedicated to my Aunt Esther And Aunt Helen that left there earthly bounds within a month of each other last winter. I needed to put my sadness somewhere so, I pulled out the fuchsia top that I had painted that previous summer and turned my sadness into joy. These fuchsia blossoms were at least 4-5" long and danced in the wind. While stitching, I thought of my aunties twirling around in a joyous dance. They are the Twirly Girls.

$2,500 Sponsor: Title: Ohio Snowball Maker: Christine Perrigo Quilter: Christine Perrigo Design Basis: Traditional Quilt Blocks Ohio Snowball was conceived with a blown up flowering snowball block, choosing to emphasize the small square formed between the petals. I wanted to create a secondary pattern and chose the Ohio Star for its easily recognizable nature. Playing with overlapping patterns for my quilting designs they pull from how one might quilt an entire quilt of flowering snowball blocks, as well as repeating both the Ohio Star block and flowering snowball petals.

$1,500 Sponsor: Fiberworks Inc. Title: Happy Trails Maker: Catherine DuCharme Quilter: Catherine DuCharme Design Basis: Custom Machine Quilting by Diane Beauchamp This quilt was designed by Pearl P. Pereira of P3 Designs. I spent 6 months selecting and gathering my fabrics for this quilt. I began preparing the appliqué shapes and stitching in February 2018 and I finished it in August 2018. I was fortunate to attend a retreat where I learned Pearl's Off the Block Appliqué technique. This is the most intricate appliqué quilt I have attempted. I had so much fun. Now iit's time to begin a new project!

$1,500 Sponsor: APQS Title: Aurora Maker: Marilyn Lidstrom Larson Quilter: Barb Simons of Stoneridge Quilting Design Basis: Traditional Lone Star Design My inspiration came from Edyta Sitar's pattern STAR OF BETHLEHEM; in particular the addition of what she called "glow" blocks. My interpretation was to use all batiks and incorporate a pieced border.

$1,000 Sponsor: Yazzii International Pty Ltd Title: Star Shower Maker: Suzanne Irving Quilter: Suzanne Irving Design Basis: Designed by Evelyn George I'm a board member of Quilt For a Cause, a Tucson, Arizona based 501c3 organization that raises funds to help in the fight against breast and gynecologic cancer. "Star Shower" is a pattern sample for one of our patterns, "Constellation Stars". It was designed exclusively for QFaC by fellow board member, Evelyn George, and pieced by the Piecepatchers Bee. The Big Dipper is represented by the seven large stars. See quiltforacause.org for info.

$1,000 Sponsor: Carriage Country Quilts Title: Marie's Treasure Maker: Marilyn Badger Quilter: Marilyn Badger Design Basis: Maker's Original Design My favorite Aunt Marie crocheted doilies like nobody else. She was the sweetest lady in my world. When I saw this hand-dyed doily in my friend, Wendy Richardson's booth I knew I had to make this quilt in her honor. Add some beautiful fabric by another friend, Paula Nadelstern, lots of embroidery, beads and crystals, and Marie's Treasure was born.

$1,000 Sponsor: BlocLoc Rulers - USAUS INC Title: From Rags to Stitches Maker: Flora Joy Quilter: Flora Joy Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Twelve separate, free-standing curvy blocks have been sewn (at their top borders) to a separate base quilt. Viewers can lift each Dutch Doll/Sunbonnet Sue to read that block’s unusual (true) story and glean numerous tips for making their own similar blocks. I slept under a Dutch doll quilt during my entire childhood, and this quilt is metaphorically my “fabric autobiography.” Each doll reflects a different time in my sewing/quilting life.

$1,000 Sponsor: Sew Cherished Title: Guns N' Roses Maker: Karen Brandt Quilter: Karen McTavish Design Basis: P-3 Design pattern Baltimore with a Texas twist. What fun!

$1,000 Sponsor: Title: Happy Easter Maker: AKI SAKAI Quilter: AKI SAKAI Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I like miniature quilts very much. I like to make seasonal quilts. This is my first Easter quilt.

$1,000 Sponsor: Title: Pear Drops Maker: Cheryl Kerestes Quilter: Cheryl Kerestes Design Basis: Maker’s Original Design This is my own original design, inspired by a love of flower gardening, appliqué, machine quilting and embroidery.

$1,000 Sponsor: Pfaff Title: Kaleidoscope Trees Maker: Judith Phelps Quilter: Judith Phelps Design Basis: original This quilt was inspired from a sentence in the book: All the Light We Cannot See. Marie-Laure lost her eye sight at the age of 6 but in her imagination and dreams everything has color. Trees in her imagination are shimmering kaleidoscopes full of light. The quilt is three layers, a completely thread painted two sided quilt. It is an original design.

$1,000 Sponsor: Quilters Dream Batting Title: Carnival Maker: Beth Nufer Quilter: Clem Buzick Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I wanted to make a modern quilt with a 3-D effect. I used silk fabric with a gradated background fabric in cotton. It was a fun quilt to make!!

$1,000 Sponsor: BERNINA of America Title: Tickled Pink Maker: Debra Crine Quilter: Debra Crine Design Basis: Photograph by Mark Mitter Inspired by photograph by Mark Mitter.

$1,000 Sponsor: Husqvarna Viking & Pfaff Title: Captivated by Nature Maker: Olga Gonzalez Angulo Quilter: Olga Gonzalez Angulo Design Basis: Maker's Personal Photograph It is a work that wants to get to the observation of the different elements if nature, working only with blank and white, and only one way, circles and three different measures. With a few simple elements coming to create a complex whole, forming a wall of tiles.

$1,000 Sponsor: Primitive Gatherings Title: ABC Frippery Maker: Janet Stone Quilter: Janet Stone Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Inspired by antique pieces of jewelry, the background is velveteen, and hand dyed by my friend, Gilbert Muniz. Because of my love for sheep, which are often featured in my quilts, my husband insisted this one also have a sheep. There’s one in there! An original design, this in the 18th quilt in my ongoing alphabet series.

$1,000 Sponsor: Necchi Title: Blueberry Hill Maker: Nancy Arseneault Quilter: Nancy Arseneault Design Basis: Maker's Original Design My favorite quilts contain applique and piecing. I adapted an online pattern called Diamond Hill by Australian designer Esther Aliu. The cheddar and periwinkle color scheme was inspired by a Kleenex box! Machine piecing, Seminole piecing, invisible machine appliqué, machine embroidery. Inserted rick rack and a double piped binding. This is the first quilt I quilted on my stand up Innova machine.

$1,000 Sponsor: Pineapple Fabrics Title: Heirloom Romance Maker: Catherine DuCharme Quilter: Catherine DuCharme Design Basis: Custom Machine Quilting by Diane Beauchamp This quilt was designed by Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill Studio. I had a wonderful time selecting the fabrics, embroidering the vintage beaded purses, and personalizing the crazy quilt setting blocks. I love the finished quilt and I hope that you enjoy it too!

$1,000 Sponsor: SewBatik Title: My Secret Garden Maker: margaret solomon gunn Quilter: margaret solomon gunn Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Peer through the large wrought iron gate. My secret garden blooms all year long, producing fragrant flowers in my favorite shades. These pink and orange blooms create a playground for the many whimsical butterflies. Join me in my land of perpetual summer. Original design, commercial cottons & silks, hand applique, hand-guided long arm quilting.

$1,000 Sponsor: Title: Spin Cycle Maker: Valli Schiller Quilter: Valli Schiller Design Basis: Maker's Original Layout of B. Cline's Basic Triangle Block Castoff men's shirts (and - whoops - my husband's "second favorite" dress shirt) upcycled into a laundry day constellation of stars.

$1,000 Sponsor: Custom Creations Title: Hibiscus Bouquet Maker: Naomi Iida Quilter: Naomi Iida Design Basis: Maker's Original Design This miniature quilt was inspired by my previous regular size quilt. However different methods and/or techniques were applied. I wanted to express color gradation and to realize three dimensional flowers, hibiscus bouquet.

$1,000 Sponsor: Brother International Corporation Title: In Full Bloom Maker: Claudia Pfeil Quilter: Claudia Pfeil Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Everything is "In Full Bloom", a magic hidden garden! A special moment when you relax and enjoy the peace and nature! rnHand dyed and solid silks and satin, free cutting, hand applique, couching. Embellished with 12 000 Swarovski Crystalsrnrn

$1,000 Sponsor: Creative Grids, USA Title: Spring on Castle Mountain Maker: Judy Leslie Quilter: Judy Leslie Design Basis: Maker's Original Design A few years ago, a friend was hiking Castle Mountain near Osoyoos when she happened upon a band of mountain goats. She was able to quickly photograph this grouping of animals shedding their winter coats and caring for a newborn. My friend will definitely love this portrayal of her experience.

$1,000 Sponsor: Title: Round the Garden Maker: Helen Anderson Quilter: Helen Anderson Design Basis: Round the Garden, Pattern by Wendy Williams This pattern was design for wool appliqué, however, I did a traditional turn dedge appliqué using bright cotton prints. It is also enhanced with lots of embroidery and hundreds of colonial/french knots.

$1,000 Sponsor: Janome Title: Small Happy Crazy Quilt Maker: AKI SAKAI Quilter: AKI SAKAI Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I like small and cute things very much. The designs are based on my favorite things and family's memories.

$1,000 Sponsor: OC Sewing & Vacuum Title: California Star Maker: Cindy Stohn Quilter: Cindy Stohn Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I designed this quilt to honor the works of the weavers and quilt-makers before me. Influenced by geometry and the symmetry prevalent in traditional weavings Original design, hand guided machine quilting with overlapping squares and arrows

$750 Sponsor: Pfaff Title: Bringing Down the House Maker: Jan Hutchison Quilter: Jan Hutchison Design Basis: Maker's Original Drawing After finding a drawing of musical witches I did while I was in high school, I decided it would make a fun quilt. It was fun choosing their outfits and designing a background and border for them! I used Inktense pencils to add detail and shading. Quilted freehand on an Innova Longarm machine.

$750 Sponsor: Quilters Dream Batting Title: Alpine Meadow Maker: Cynthia Vogt Quilter: Cynthia Vogt Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Inspiration for this original design are the fields of fragile flowers breaking through the snow high above the tree line in the Rocky Mountains. Fourteen thousand pieces of assorted silks and silk sari ribbon represent countless tiny bits of nourishment for the families of elk that roam these meadows.

$750 Sponsor: BERNINA of America Title: Sisters, Best Friends Maker: Sandra Mollon Quilter: Sandra Mollon Design Basis: Derived from a Photograph by Deb Simon This raw edge fused quilt was inspired by a photograph by Deb Simon of two asian elephants. They seemed to have great affection for each other, reminding me of the closeness of my sisters. It is made from commercial cottons and batik fabrics, and is enhanced with ink and oil pastels. It is free motion machine quilted.

$750 Sponsor: Husqvarna Viking & Pfaff Title: Velvet Flowers Maker: Linda Anderson Quilter: Linda Anderson Design Basis: Photograph In the quiet village of Santa Rosa in Oaxaca, Mexico, all the women, and some of the men, embroider blouses and skirts of velvet with hand-stitched flowers. The gather around tables, chatting back and forth as they create a style of dress also worn by Frida Kahlo. Flowers continue today to dance across the rich clothing on the solid women of this land.

$750 Sponsor: Primitive Gatherings Title: Flower Festival Maker: Sachiko Chiba Quilter: Sachiko Chiba Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I want to make quilts that I can satisfy without compromising. I rewrote my design over and over again. I wanted express the beauty of flowers, therefore I chose the clothes carefully. I hope to continue making flower quilts.

$750 Sponsor: SewBatik Title: Painted Magnolia Maker: Catherine Butterworth Quilter: Catherine Butterworth Design Basis: Maker's Original Design While traveling in the USA I saw an exhibition of historic American woven coverlets. On display was “A Handweaver’s Source Book” c1950. One graph in particular caught my eye and was the inspiration for this quilt. I adapted part of the original two toned graph into this quilt, ‘painting it’ with some of my favourite colours. I added a few circles just for fun.

$750 Sponsor: Necchi Title: Oh Be Joyful! Maker: Cindy Seitz-Krug Quilter: Cindy Seitz-Krug Design Basis: Maker's Orignial Design The idea for this quilt started with the redwood colored Cherrywood fabric used for the background. When choosing the other fabrics, I simply picked bright and cheerful colors that seemed to sparkle. The quilt consists of many different quilting techniques, including hand and machine applique (including over 1400 hand appliqued clamshells), machine piecing, and domestic machine quilting.

$750 Sponsor: Pineapple Fabrics Title: Lessons in Botany & Entomology Maker: Ann Horton Quilter: Ann Horton Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Flowers, fruits, and the incredible array of insects that make up our world inspired this colorful array. Old botanical prints fascinate me and the idea of scientific explorations contributed to the quilt images. Improv piecing of curves and setting helped me play with my 40 year stash of fabrics. In the final border I fell in love with the science of names.

$750 Sponsor: Freedom Star United LLC Title: Navajo Ruby Maker: Cindy Stohn Quilter: Cindy Stohn Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Influenced by the geometry and symmetry prevalent in traditional weavings, my intent is to honor both the weavers and quilt-makers before me, and along side me, who teach and influence me to create and continue to perpetuate the art that I love. My design is machine pieced and free motion quilted with the intent to replicate woven patterns and to add subtle design, texture and additional patterning.

$750 Sponsor: Cozy Quilt Designs Title: Tight Pineapple Maker: Amy Pabst Quilter: Amy Pabst Design Basis: Traditional Design This quilt was inspired by an 1880-1900 era pineapple quilt. Each block measured 1 7/8" and has 77 pieces. It was foundation pieced and then quilted in the ditch. There are 2,772 pieces.

$750 Sponsor: Brother International Corporation Title: Sunset at Camel Rock Maker: Angie Tustison Quilter: Angie Tustison Design Basis: Maker's Orignial Design This quilt is based on a photo I took of my husband walking down the trail to the beach at Camel Rock, Northern California. We caught the most beautiful sunset, which I tried to capture with layers of cotton fabric, polyester sparkly netting, tulle, safety reflective material and polyester organza. This quilt reminds me of the things I'm most thankful for, my wonderful husband and beautiful home.

$750 Sponsor: Creative Grids, USA Title: Mont St. Michel Memories Maker: Linda Schmidt Quilter: Linda Schmidt Design Basis: Maker's Personal Photograph Off the coast of Normandy is this magical island, topped by a cathedral built in the 8th century, where the tide race is 45 feet or so twice each day. You have to take a causeway to get there, and it is surrounded by quicksand pools and dangerous waters, which is why Aaron Elkins wrote a mystery with this as his murder site. If you haven't been there, you should go, and have a Bavarian waffle or Crepe Suzette while you're there!

$750 Sponsor: Martelli Enterprises, Inc. Title: For Love of Ornament Maker: Zena Thorpe Quilter: Zena Thorpe Design Basis: Ornamentation Sampler The quilt was inspired Owen Jones' design classic "The Grammar of Ornament" which he published in 1856. Owen Jones collected thousands of examples of ornamentation from all over the world.I have adapted for applique a very small sampling of those designs.

$750 Sponsor: Janome Title: Pieces of the Past Maker: Catherine DuCharme Quilter: Catherine DuCharme Design Basis: Custom Machine Quilting by Diane Beauchamp I have always admired vintage china so when I saw this pattern by Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill Studio, I knew that I had to make it! This was the first time that I had ever made crazy quilt blocks and I used the foundation paper piecing technique. I thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt and I finished it over a five-month period.

$750 Sponsor: OC Sewing & Vacuum Title: Cranberry Bounce Maker: Ann L. Petersen Quilter: Ann L. Petersen Design Basis: Maker's Original Design I used a traditional block and red, gray and white color scheme and adapted it to my original setting from my quilt Fine Feathered Fancy. This is a Christmas quilt - there are cardinals, reindeer, holly, mistletoe and ornaments in fabric prints.

$500 Sponsor: Title: Music Maker: Kathy McNeil Quilter: Kathy McNeil Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Words often fail but Music always delivers the emotions of life. This quilt is my visual trbute to Muscial shapes, sounds and movement.

$500 Sponsor: Pfaff Title: Night Trawlers Maker: Flora Joy Quilter: Flora Joy Design Basis: An Art Piece (used with artist's written permission) This quilt is based on a painting by Robert Steven Connett (used with his written permission). Its educational/artistic purpose is to entice students to further explore the science, language, and art curriculum skills. Unique stitching techniques include “variable stacked trapunto” and scalloped/buttoned borders that are enhanced by 18 removable dangling curriculum cards.

$500 Sponsor: Quilters Dream Batting Title: 2 Degrees Celsius Maker: Stephanie Ruyle and the members of Bee Sewcial (Leanne Chahley, Karen Foster, Felicity Ronaghan, Quilter: Stephanie Ruyle and the members of Bee Sewcial (Leanne Chahley, Karen Foster, Felicity Ronaghan, Design Basis: Original Improv Design based on a prompt about climate change Using the collective power of creation and cloth, each member of Bee Sewcial harnessed the power of the vibrating undercurrents of climate change and a "winter" palette to create and improv pieced block that was curated into a cohesive story. The piecing is off-set by the rhythmic quilting reminiscent of water and tides. Strategically placed areas of hand quilting draw the viewer in and ask them to consider the quilt on yet another level.

$500 Sponsor: BERNINA of America Title: Technicolor Dream Parrot Maker: Roxanne Nelson Quilter: Roxanne Nelson Design Basis: Susan Carlson Workshop, Creative Commons I love the intense colors and the expression of this Amazon parrot. It seems to say Can we talk? Every color in my fabric stash had an opportunity to come out and play, a quilter’s Technicolor Dream. The term Technicolor refers to the layering of colors to obtain a bright, intense result. I combined glue and fused, raw edge applique I layer multiple fabrics to achieve subtle color. Each piece is individually stitched to add texture and dimension.

$500 Sponsor: Husqvarna Viking & Pfaff Title: Drenched Maker: Jo Baner Quilter: Jo Baner Design Basis: Maker's Original Design This quilt was a study in translucent light. It was inspired by a photo taken in the MOMA rain room in New York. Used with permission. I was delighted when I was able to recreate the highlights of the human form standing in a drenching rain.

$500 Sponsor: Primitive Gatherings Title: Espalier Maker: Joann Webb Quilter: Joann Webb Design Basis: Applique This quilt began with a desire to use trained or "espalier" fruit trees as on point settings for each of the appliqued birds that are common in the midwest where I live. The fabrics used have natural texture and soft stripes which allow me to create birds as realistic as possible without using paint or ink. This particular tree formation is called a Portugese Fence.

$500 Sponsor: Necchi Title: Square Dance Maker: Barbara Clem Quilter: Barbara Clem Design Basis: Maker's Original Design This project began as an experiment with different ways to make scallops. I began folding and cutting freezer paper-each time I unfolded my freezer paper it was a neat design-which set side by side made a nice 'star' frame & I was delighted. Adding the rope border further enhanced the design. I chose to make my squares dance by adding trapuntoed channels. She is hand applique & reverse applique, machine pieced and hand quilted.

$500 Sponsor: Pineapple Fabrics Title: Rose Parade II Maker: Linda Thielfoldt Quilter: Linda Thielfoldt Design Basis: Maker's Original Design A red wholecloth has been on my bucket list for many years and I'm happy to finally check it off. My original designed roses and feather quilting patterns provided the inspiration for this wholecloth layout. Freehand background quilting sets them off.

$500 Sponsor: Cheri's Crystals Title: Ode to Jinny Maker: Kathleen Littfin Quilter: Kathleen Littfin Design Basis: Photo of a quilt by Elizabeth Swan This quilt was inspired by some beautiful Jinny Beyer fabric I purchased several years ago. I first started quilting in 1984 after seeing Jinny Beyer’s Ray of Light Quilt. Her quilts, books, and fabrics have been a joy to me, and I decided to name this quilt in her honor since I used her beautiful Williamsburg fabric and her soft-edged piecing technique. It is hand pieced, hand quilted, and hand trapuntoed.

$500 Sponsor: Morgan Quality Products & JD Stencils Title: Peony Mandala Maker: Kumiko Frydl Quilter: Kumiko Frydl Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Since ancient times peony has been popular in Japan admired as a flower and used as design element in family crests. I combined peony patterns in a mandala form and arranged the arabesque pattern around them.

$500 Sponsor: Brother International Corporation Title: Roots and Branches Maker: Christina McCann Quilter: Christina McCann Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Trees have always been an important part of my life. I yearn for the silence of a walk in the woods and the intrigue when coming across an old building. This quilt was improvisational piecing with a vague idea in my head.

$500 Sponsor: Creative Grids, USA Title: Artistic License Maker: Kathy McNeil Quilter: Kathy McNeil Design Basis: Maker's Original Design An intriguing look into the eye of an artist. Inspired by a vist to Colmar, France.

$500 Sponsor: Martelli Enterprises, Inc. Title: Nearly a 9 Patch Maker: Laura Welklin Quilter: Laura Welklin Design Basis: Maker's Original Design This original design combines my two favorite types of applique: turned edge invisible machine applique using Monopoly thread and raw edge fused blanket stitch applique with Kimono silk thread. This quilt was stitched and quilted on my 25 year old Bernina.

$500 Sponsor: Janome Title: Song of Summer Maker: Bethanne Nemesh Quilter: Bethanne Nemesh Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Inspired by the Buddhist zen gardens of my childhood in Japan, this silk whole cloth features original flora and fauna, and Japanese inspired free motion background fills. The elaborate beading treatment is created with individually made gradation bead scallops accented with tiny seed beads.

$500 Sponsor: OC Sewing & Vacuum Title: Starburst Maker: Peggy Marquardt Quilter: Peggy Marquardt Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Starburst was created from the Classic LeMoyne Star block. It is my original design created to reflect a more modern spin on the classic block.

$500 Sponsor: SewBatik Title: FLYING THOUGHTS Maker: Antonia Hering Quilter: Antonia Hering Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Flying home from Paducah to the Netherlands I started to draw. Inspired by the stars i decided to make a star with 10 points. That was not an easy task. Besides that I wanted to challenge myself to make a lot of tiny points. Not easy either. But together with the fabric of the star and just 1 dark brown fabric with all kinds of flowers it worked very well.