Cindy Seitz-Krug's Judge's Statement: "The rich color palette used to create this landscape is so vibrant and striking. The depth perspective was expertly achieved through scale and placement of the elements. The reflection in the water is phenomenal! The direction of the light source adds to the...
One of the early challenges from the Modern Quilt Guild that Latifah participated in involved receiving fabric and being told to create something from it. Competing against other members of the guild, Latifah gave herself another challenge in making her quilt on top of the one already presented t...
This "Boro Sampler" was one of the first boro pieces that Carol made. She teaches a class on making boro, where she has featured this sampler, and has the students hand piece in the class and then hand embellish afterwards. Carol says that the class is great for beginners and experienced stitcher...
Artist Statement: "This fiber art piece continues my "Seasons" series. This piece portrays the amazing colors of an awakening spring. This is an intricately crafted, totally improvisational curved quilt where all the parts are pieced (with no appliqué). Vivaldi's "Four Seasons Spring" was used as...
Carol's "Modified Nine Patch" was made for the America Quilter's Society over twenty years ago in 2005. AQS asked Carol to make something in a nine-patch field and she ran with it, imbuing it with her sashiko style. It features a combination of traditional designs, for example, the rabbit is desi...
Artist Statement: "This quilt draws inspiration from a classic ancient Chinese folk song. Depicting fish darting and playing amid lotus leaves, it implicitly expresses young lovers’ tender romance, with lotus bloom standing for purity. The piece uses over 100 silk hues for vivid, layered color. M...
Artist Statement: "As an artist, I find myself interested in the reflection of images in glass or pools of water. I was drawn to the photo taken by Deb Simon because it showed an amazing reflection. I wanted to see if I could capture that in fabric."
Techniques: Fused Appliqué, Hand Dyeing, Paint...
While teaching at a quilt shop, Cyndi noticed the shop carried collections of Dupioni silk. When the owner asked Cyndi if she could create a quilt for the shop from the silk, Cyndi said she would only if everyone could have access to the quilt. So, she taught a class on how to make the pattern fo...
Inspiration: "Summer appears in all its glory with flowers and leaves tied into a wreath and it brings the joy and lightness of a summer night. All appliqués are sewn by hand onto the entire background fabric and quilted on a longarm machine."
Technical Information: Machine Piecing, Hand Appliqu...
Taking its inspiration from another airport, this time the Washington Dulles International Airport, "Form Meets Function" gets its name due to the fact that is a well-functioning and beautiful airport. The main terminal of the airport, which when viewed from the outside rises or descends like a p...
Artist Statement: "I'm a self-taught quilter and have never attended a quilting class. this quilt was my first monochromatic quilt, hand pieced and quilted, with appliqué and embroidery. The design was inspired by an American coverlet and content from a Dover Publications piece. I worked on it fo...
Graffiti Quilting for Karlee was taking everything she'd drawn in her sketchbooks for years and transferring it to fabric with thread. Her "Mini Graffiti Quilt" was a manifestation of her many run-ins with the quilt police, using many of the iconic concepts of Graffiti Quilting to break the "rule...
Artist Statement (AQS QuiltWeek - Daytona Beach 2026): "I was inspired by a coverlet in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I enjoyed deciding the shape and placement of the flowers to get a cohesive overall design. The real fun started as the colors and fabrics were selected. I mainly worked on the ...
"Mama Don't 'Low" by Patty Simmons won The Marie White Masterpiece Award at Road to California 2026.Artist Statement: "The Jug Band vibes in this quilt cross from real to homemade instruments. Feel the rhythm and change in pitch that comes from blowing across that jug, humming into the comb and p...
"Winter Raven" by Judith Phelps was inspired by the book, Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.In the Snow Child, a child loses their red scarf, and a line from it says, "Ravens... and other wild birds had been known to snatch things." This sentence lit the creative spark in Judith to create the quilt. It wa...
"Isbjørn" by Ricki Selva won a First Place ribbon at Road to California 2026.
Artist Statement: "This bear was bored...so bored he swam out to a boat off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, where my friend, Kasey Carrothers, had been observing him. This rare and precious encounter, gave me the perfect...
"Mom Jeans" by Carolyn McKibbin won Best in Show at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Upcycled denim was the inspiration for this quilt. I cut up 9 old pairs of jeans I wore in early motherhood, ones that were sitting in a box taking up space waiting to be donated. Being aware that much of the clo...
The Glass Ceiling is Broken but the Ladders Aren't Fixed
by Robin Thomas
The Glass Ceiling is Broken but the Ladders Aren't Fixed by Robin Thomas won First Place-Modern Quilts at AQS Daytona 26Artist Statement: "I have spent my career in a traditionally male industry and had to fight for a seat at the table that my male colleagues got by showing up. Recently I found t...
"Frances" by Jeanne Eileen Garcia won People's Choice at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Despite my occasional eye-rolling as a child at comparisons to my mother - in likeness, tone, or attitude - I've always valued that connection, like a little echo carried in me. Hand-piecing and quilting thi...
"Tinker Toys" by Susan Braverman won Best Machine Quilting at QuiltCon 2026.QuiltCon 2026 Artist Statement: "This quilt reimagines childhood construction sets through a modern quilting lens with traditional elements like drunkard's path, rail fence, and checkerboard blocks. I combined curved and ...
"Racing Stripes" by Kelly Spell won the MQG Award of Excellence at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "My goal for this quilt was to create the illusion of motion using hand-dyed, color-to-color gradations. To achieve that effect, I used liquid Procion MX dyes in three hues: hot pink and wasabi to m...
"Parallax" by Danielle Stanfill and Rachel Orr won Best Original Modern Design at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "This collaborative piece serves as an invitation to explore the convergence of two aesthetic lenses. One, drawn to the precision of geometry and the rhythm of pattern; the other, ins...
"Midnight & Noon" by Lauren Klementz-Harte won Best Hand Quilting at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "In deep darkness we only see illuminated shapes, but inherently know there is more there. Full light uncovers what was always present, yet details still go unnoticed. Subtle minutiae that bri...
Diamond Levitation won First Place - American Patchwork & Quilting Diamonds Quilting Challenge at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "A stack of diamonds appears to float in the air channeling a flow of energy."
Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted without a Frame (Longarm)
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Freedom
by Cathy Wiggins
Artist Statement: "This was my first attempt at creating a tooled leather look with machine quilting and dyes. Leather shoe polish was used to give the finished piece a metallic feel. Each hole in the binding was hand-punched, then sewn with waxed thread."
Techniques: Painted, Quilted, Shaded wit...
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Love Letters
by Janet Stone
Artist Statement: "Love Letters was inspired by an antique valentine that belonged to my mother-in-law. I found a chipboard alphabet set to use as a stencil for the letters. I was able to find the cotton/metallic gold fabric on the clearance rack, and I used it for the scroll part of the center h...
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My Legacy
by Lezleigh Kleibrink
My Legacy was done for Lezleigh's friend, and was created using doilies, handkerchiefs, and tea towels that were made by her friend's mother, aunts, and great aunt. These heirlooms were sitting in a drawer, whittling away and not being seen. So Lezleigh's friend handed them to her and asked if sh...
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Mom Jeans
by Carolyn McKibbin
"Mom Jeans" by Carolyn McKibbin won Best in Show at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Upcycled denim was the inspiration for this quilt. I cut up 9 old pairs of jeans I wore in early motherhood, ones that were sitting in a box taking up space waiting to be donated. Being aware that much of the clo...
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Americana Baltimore
by Wendy J Grande
Each block was personalized with favorite ribbons, techniques and memories to create this quilt.WENDY GRANDE ---I started this quilt in a class offered by Elly Sienkiewicz to make the Clipper Ship as a large center block. Warren, my husband, was very excited and provided the inspiration for the f...
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Enjoy
by Wendy J Grande
Baltimore Album style quilt. The blocks are made as diamonds on point with birds and bouquets using Ribbon Applique techniques.The quilt "Enjoy" is the third quilt in this style that I have made - the blocks are diamond shaped with large rectangles, cut diagonally for the corners, to make the ove...
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Lepidopteran #5
by Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry
This design was inspired by a small photo of a green moth, which Caryl had saved for many years in her inspiration file. She studied the colors and patterns of the moth, then used some of those patterns and colors to create a completely abstract design. More can be learned about this quilt at Car...
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Sarre Windmill
by Carolyn Johnson
My partner Marie and I initially exchanged several emails, and subsequently moved on to Messenger to communicate. We exchanged information on our families and about our life style and surroundings. Contact has been sporadic as we both live fairly busy lives and are involved in family businesses. ...
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La Cruz Del Sur
by Silvia Herman
My participation in the IMQE has been a wonderful and amazing experience, because I live in a country like Argentina, in which there we have no culture and less history about patchwork and quilting, to be able to participate and have the possibility that a work done by an Argentinian, and may be ...
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Garden Variety Sampler
by Janet Stone
Artist Statement: "The layout of this quilt was inspired from a page of a children's book by Walter Crane from 1878. The colors were inspired by Japanese taupe quilts, and the overall design was inspired by antique cross-stitched samplers. This quilt is actually the only quilt in the series that ...
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Wyatt Wolf
by Teresa Coates
"Wyatt Wolf" by Teresa Coates is based off of the pattern "Wolf Abstractions" by Violet Craft.Wyatt Wolf is made from Cuddle fabrics that are similar to faux fur and suede. You'll want to run your hands all over this quilt. Don't worry, he doesn't bite. Maker: Teresa Coates Quilter: NA Year...
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Ascension
by Teresa Coates
"Ascension" Teresa Coates was created in collaboration with her boyfriend.Teresa collaborated with her boyfriend, Hawke Hamilton, to make the uplifting quilt, Ascension. It's based on one of his paintings and even includes a pair of his jeans. Maker: Teresa Coates Quilter: Teresa Coates Yea...
