2021 Awards | Quiltfest Northwest

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2021 Awards

2021 Special Awards

Remembrance is a landscape quilt that features leafless trees surrounded by a winter's snow. Red birds are perched on the limbs on the tree in the foreground and a park bench is in front of that tree.

Best of Show Wall & Best of Show Viewers' Choice

Remembrance by Judith Phelps

Vintage Rose is a paper pieced quilt made with various shades of blue accented with purple.

Best of Show Large and Best Longarm Quilting: Computer Assisted

Vintage Rose by Carol Hatten

Ocean Reflections at Sunset is a vertical quilt with bands of ombre fabric pieced together with improv curves.

Best Use of Show Theme

Ocean Reflections at Sunset by Rosanne Hatfield

Bunny Hop features 55 multicolored bunnies marching in alternate directions.

Best Hand Quilting

Bunny Hop by Sally Trude

Cohesive Chaos features compass rose blocks alternating with pickle dish quilt blocks. All blocks are made in various shades of red.

Best Longarm Quilting: Hand Guided

Cohesive Chaos by Karan Brooks

The Memories that Remain is a portrait quilt that features an older man with a grey goatee looking pensively to the left with his hand on his cheek. He is wearing a white shirt, brown vest and brown hat.

Best Machine Quilting: Domestic

The Memories that Remain by Lynn Czaban

Over the River and Through the Woods is a quilt pieced with large wavy curves, and in the center band, features pieced diamonds with various fabrics.

Best Non-Traditional

Over the River and Through the Woods by Audrey Prothero

Unity is a red, white and blue medallion quilt made with half square triangles.

Best Traditional and President's Choice

Unity by Terry Knott

Running is an abstract portrait quilt that features a woman running towards the right. Pictured in the background are red, yellow, green and brown sunflowers and leaves.

Best Use of Color

Running by Karan Brooks

Ready for the Rain is a quilt that features two blue jeaned legs with yellow wellies. A small brown dog is sitting next to the legs and is wearing smaller wellies as well as a yellow rain hat.

Best Use of Humor

Ready for the Rain by Sharry Olmstead

Let it Snow is a quilt that features 12 blocks with various snowman scenes. The blocks have black cornerstones and are bordered in red.

Bev Herring Memorial Award: First Time Exhibitor

Let it Snow by Candi Welker

How Does Your Garden Grow is a quilt that features a container of flowers in the center of a horizontal quilt. Two vertical banners of pieced flowers flank both sides.

Judge's Choice: Kathie Kerler

How Does Your Garden Grow by Kathy Taylor

2021 Judged First Place

Crayon Architecture is a quilt that features a city skyline made from bright, bold rainbow hued fabrics.

Applique Advanced

Crayon Architecture by Judith Phelps

When Pigs Fly is an abstract portrait quilt that features a person with orange hair that is sticking straight up in the air. The person is flanked by a black cat and coffee mug.

Applique Intermediate

When Pigs Fly by Norma Beale

My Fabric Calendar is a quilt that features blocks made to celebrate each month. Each block has a piece of checkerboard fabric.

Pieced Wall Intermediate

My Fabric Calendar by Pat Gillman

Purple Lonestar is a lonestar quilt made with blue, floral, orange and yellow fabric. The quilt is expertly quilted.

Pieced Medium Intermediate

Purple Lonestar by Tami Levin

Not Alone Star features two halves of a rainbow lonestar. One half has the reds and the center, and the other half has the reds on the outside of the star.

Pieced Large Intermediate

Not Alone Star by Rosanne Hatfield

Nanook is an abstract portraid quilt of a polar bear. The bear is surrounded with bear paw blocks.

Pieced Wall Advanced

Nanook by Linda Padilla

Wishing Star is a bold paper pieced intricate star quilt

Pieced Medium Advanced

Wishing Star by Carol Hattan

Cohesive Chaos is a quilt that features compass rose blocks alternated with pickle dish blocks. All of the blocks are made with varous shades of red and white.

Pieced Large Advanced

Cohesive Chaos by Karan Brooks

A Midnight Clear is a quilt that features multiple scenes of winter. Snowmen, trees, reindeer and a houses are included.

Mixed Intermediate

A Midnight Clear by Daune Spritzer

Poinsettia Bouquet is a quilt that features eight poinsettia bouquets in the center, expertly pieced.

Mixed Advanced

Poinsettia Bouquet by Carol Hattan

Jonny's Photo features what looks like the wall of a building with black windows decorated with a mural. this mural has wavy lines in yellows, blues, greens and reds.

Non-Representational Advanced

Jonny's Photo by Judith Phelps

The Memories that Remain is a portrait quilt that features an older man with a grey goatee. The man is wearing a white shirt, brown vest and brown hat.

Art Representational Advanced

The Memories that Remain by Lynn Czaban

2021 Viewers' Choice

Remembrance is a landscape quilt featuring a winter scene. There is a tree in the foreground with a flock of red birds resting on it. A park bench covered in snow is in front of the tree.

Best of Show

Remembrance by Judith Phelps

Over the Hill is an applique quilt that features half circle blocks--some with flying geese circling and some without. There are multicolored houses and cars and flocks of animals around the surface of the quilt.

Applique

Over the Hill by Nancy Tubbs

Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a bright and cheery quilt featuring six cows with large eyes made from bright, multicolored fabric.

Applique

Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Audrey Prothero

The Memories that Remain is a horizontal portrait quilt featuring an older man with a grey goatee. The man is wearing a white shirt and a brown hat and vest.

Art

The Memories that Remain by Lynn Czaban

Overcoming with Grace is a vertical portrait quilt featuring a woman, nude from the waist up. She has her hand on her chest and a mastectomy scar is visible.

Art

Overcoming with Grace by Lynn Czaban

Tula Pink 100 - Reduced is a sampler quilt that features the blocks from Tula Pink's Modern City Sampler book, reduced in size.

Miniatures

Tula Pink 100 - Reduced by Anne Ghillihan

Mickey and Minnie Visit Paris is a quilt that features a panel with Mickey and Minnie in a bright red car watching fireworks in Paris. The panel is surrounded by a border of black, white and red squares and rectangles.

Mixed

Mickey and Minnie Visit Paris by Connie Huber

Dancing Circles is a quilt featuring curved piecing. The quilt is made with green, yellow and brown quarter circle blocks.

Modern

Dancing Circles by Jean Ludeman

Ohmigosh! is a block based quilt featuring very tiny pieces in all colors of fabric.

Pieced Large

Ohmigosh! by Vicky Mikesh

Chameleon Conspiracy is a quilt that features 9 vines. On these vines are four pairs of two chameleons one above the vine and one below.

Pieced Large

Chameleon Conspiracy by Sally Trude

Bunny Hop is a quilt featuring 55 pieced rabbits. Every other row of rabbits are facing in the opposite direction of the one above and below it. The rabbits are made from an assortment of plaid and solid fabrics.

Pieced Large

Bunny Hop by Sally Trude

Polar Vortex is a square quilt that has a circular design made with triangles. the piecing is made with assorted blue fabrics, arranged in an gradiation.

Pieced Large

Polar Vortex by Jean Ludeman

Guild Challenge: Illusions

Hole Punch Ribbons and Hoop is a quilt that is made to look like there are three strips with pieces hole punched out of them. These strips are arranged on the diagonal. The top and bottom strips are formed into the shape of a circle, while the middle strip meanders up and down.

Favorite Overall

Hole Punch Ribbons and Hoop by Rosanne Hatfield

Lime Green 3-D Quilt is a quilt that has been constructed with circles and ovals to give the impression of a 3-D sphere.

Optical Illusion

Lime Green 3-D Quilt by Joanne Adams Roth

Twelve Circles is a quilt that has been created with blue and yellow fabrics pieced to give the illusion of twelve circles. Most of the fabrics are floral prints.

Favorite

Twelve Circles by Connie Huber

Special Exhibit Awards

Strip Tease is a fun and colorful quilt featuring large squares and triangles made with stripes. There are three horizontal black and white checkerboard panels, one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom.

Mod Quilt Squad

Strip Tease by Kathleen Boven

Red Umbrella is a portrait featuring a person with their back to the viewer. Over their shoulder they are carrying an open red umbrella, obscuring most of the head and shoulders of the figure.

Storytellers - Seeing Red

Red Umbrella by CarolAnne Olson

Unity is a red, white and blue quilt made with flying geese and what looks like thousands of half square triangles. The layout featured is in the medallion style.

Thread Tales

Unity by Terry Knott

Undulation is a quilt that features what look like rolling hills made with yarn. The depressions between the rolling hills are accent with stitching.

Vagabonds - Photos

Undulation by Val Pellens

Bird Mosaic is a quilt that features the portrait of a lovebird on a branch. The bird is surrounded by squares in various shades of green, and this larger square is placed on point. Twelve beaded tassels hang from the bottom of the quilt.

Timna Tarr Exhibit

Bird Mosaic by Alene Kempton

Listings of All Award Winners

Quiltfest 2021 Judged Awards (pdf)

Quiltfest 2021 Viewers' Choice and Guild Challenge Awards (pdf)

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