Animal Quilts
Animals are captured in these amazing quilts you will want to see.
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Best Wall Quilt at PIQF 2024 Cat and Mouse by Katherine Donaldson won Best Wall Quilt in the Wall Quilt Competition at the Pacific International Quilt Festival 2024. On the inspiration for her quilt, Katherine said, "Cat and Mouse was a celebration of the year of the tiger and was inspired by a neighbor's drawing of a tiger. The mouse was added to soften the tiger's effect and to provide a friend. The technique was fabric collage and longarm quilting."
We love how many colors Jackie Berry used to create her beautiful "black" bird in Preening on a Beautiful Day. The quilt was exhibited at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024 as part of the Small Wall Quilts - Pictorial category. Based on a photograph by Jackie, it features wonderful fused, raw edge and machine appliqué utilized to beautiful effect to create the textured feathered look of the centerpiece bird.
See more closeups. https://bit.ly/41XViHZ Janet Stone's quilt Filigree Calligraphy. Winning Best Original Design at AQS QuiltWeek - Daytona Beach 2025 and Best Stationary Machine Workmanship at AQS QuiltWeek - Branson 2025, Janet's beautiful quilt also took home The Gammill Master Award for Machine Artistry at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. Congratulations Janet!
Secret World
Angie Tustison created her quilt, Secret World, as a celebration of her beloved Mother. Winning Second Place in the Animal category at Road to California 2025. "I created this quilt as a memorial for my Mother. She loved owls, and she is represented in this quilt by a strong, protective mother owl. The 3 babies represent her 3 children. The beadwork on the bottom is done in her style with some beads she made herself. I always felt like Mom created a special, secret world for me and my siblings that was filled with inspiration and beauty."
Song of the Sea
Wonderful close ups: https://bit.ly/3zIRxM4 Kathy McNeil has given us beautiful quilts depicting wildlife in both real and imaginary situations. Her quilt, Song of the Sea brings us under the sea. She says, "I had no idea where my lovely sea creature would take me. She ended up in an art nouveau design playing with / or eating her little friends?" Winning Best Wall Quilt at the 2015 Pacific International Quilt Festival, Song of the Sea also took home a Third Place Award at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2016, Director's Choice at Road to California 2016, and Best Original Design at another AQS show in 2015.
Corroboree - A Festival Gathering
8 closeups here: https://bit.ly/4aTDro5 Corroboree - A Festival Gathering by Ann Horton won Second Place - Wall Quilts: Stationary Machine Quilted at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024. A corroboree is "an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony in the form of a sacred ritual or an informal gathering". The outside border of the quilt contains kangaroos and platypus', which Ann has created using a combination of hand appliqué and hand embroidery, along with some machine quilting techniques. More animals are hiding in plain sight in the fabric used throughout the quilt.
The closeups are worth the click: https://bit.ly/3M49hW4 African Crazy Play by Ann Horton received the Quilt Path by APQS Judge’s Recognition Award at AQS Quiltweek Paducah 2023. Cindy Seitz- Krug selected Ann's quilt. "The combination of circular and irregular shapes makes the quilt visually intriguing while the variety in scale creates wonderful unity. The hand stitching in each shape gives the piece a fabulous texture."
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