Art Quilts
Quilts that go to a whole new level! Take a look at these amazing quilts and all the techniques leveraged to create them.
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Oasis, by Cassandra Beaver of Urbana, Ohio. Oasis won Second Place in the Appliqué category at QuiltCon 2025. https://urladda.com/McSPX Cassandra writes, "Photographs of desert plant life at a Nevada botanical garden combined with the red rock formations of Southern Utah inspired this needle turn appliqué quilt. Using AutoCAD, I translated these images into a template line drawing. As I turned the edges of each fabric section under during the stitching process, the gradient background was revealed, creating a stained glass-like effect. The gridded quilting is reminiscent of observing the outdoor world through a window screen."
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!
Uprooted by June Jaeger
Uprooted by June Jaeger was featured in the Abstract Category - Houston 2024. June says, "I like to find inspiration and beauty in the simple things in nature. I was intrigued by the shadow-play of an uprooted juniper tree. As I played with lines and fabrics, this piece took on a life of its own. The deeper I got into this piece, the more stories and symbolism began to appear. It represents the struggle of life and growth manipulating around the blockades as it strives to exist."
Soaring Dragon
First Place Group Quilts at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2025 Soaring Dragon by QianNaFang Studio won First Place. "The Group worked together in the Year of the Dragon to create a patchwork to express best wishes to their country and the world with the wisdom, power, and spirits of the dragon. The idea was originally inspired by a traditional paper-cut prototype of a dragon by Yang Jinqiu and was accomplished in the quilt with mola and traditional Chinese Dingjin embroidery."
First Place Small Wall Quilts: Fiber Art/Mixed Media at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2025. https://bit.ly/4kl1IJ0 Midnight Magic by Joanne Baeth won First Place. Depicting eight boats as they are docked for the evening, the real magic is in how Joanne's mastery of a vast array of quilting techniques, including thread painting, inking, fabric painting, and more, brought these ordinary boats to life with just a wave, and a stitch or two or ten, of her hands.
Second Place Modern Traditionalism at QuiltCon 2025. https://urladda.com/iKUjN Circle Play by Jennifer Candon won Second Place - Modern Traditionalism at QuiltCon 2025. Jennifer's quilt poses several artistic questions that she wants the viewer to answer when they see quilt. She says, "Creating primary and secondary shapes is central to the modern quilting aesthetic. In this contemporary interpretation of a traditional orange peel design, I explore why viewers "see" one shape versus another - a circle or a four petal flower. What role do color, value, line and shape placement play in how viewers' eyes track and interpret subject matter? What other cultural biases influence how we "read" a work of art?"
First Place Minimalist Design at QuiltCon 2025 Suspend by Irene Roderick won First Place - Minimalist Design at QuiltCon 2025. Irene says, "Suspend" came out of a trip to Newfoundland. Despite all the blues and greens of the forests and seas, the looming forms of giant rocks along the shore, ravaged by time spoke the clearest to me. I love the monumental presence of these craggy forms and when I returned to my studio, this happened."
Out of the Blue by Emilie Trahan
First Place Improvisation at QuiltCon 2025 Out of the Blue by Emilie Trahan won First Place - Improvisation at QuiltCon 2025. Emilie says of her quilt, "Second quilt of a series that explores the relationship of the color red with every other color; this quilt focuses on red and blue. Originally started with the intention of being a 'small' wall hanging; this piece is a testament to the very nature of improvisation and how it can grow organically, and outgrow our conceptions, hopefully opening up new paths. Entirely made of upcycled fabrics (mainly bed linens), and upcycled flannel sheets as batting."
Flowers in Full Bloom by Ayako Kawakami
More closeups. https://bit.ly/4dSr65m Flowers in full bloom to Kirara by Ayako Kawakami won Best Hand Workmanship at AQS QuiltWeek - Daytona Beach 2025 and First Place - Hand Quilted Quilts at AQS QuiltWeek – Branson 2025. As for the inspiration for the quilt, Ayako says, "I made this quilt for my daughter who loves flowers. My daughter will come of age this year. I made this quilt in the hope that she will be able to spend her coming of age with a bright smile. It is my style to make quilts with embroidery. I embroidered the embroidery design as I thought of it, without drafting it. The heart motif is Crazy quilts. The quilting is hand quilting and Japanese sashiko (boro). I enjoyed the many colonial knot stitches."
Fugue by Lucy Engels
Featured Quilt - First Place Appliqué at QuiltCon 2025 Fugue by Lucy Engels won First Place - Appliqué at QuiltCon 2025. Lucy says, "Fugue is part of a series of quilts examining shifts in perception. Fugue's composition process is one of manipulating the quilt that came before, revealing a new image distanced from the original, changed. 576 circles needle turn appliquéd on a pieced background. A deliberately slow process allowing time to pass. Giving space for a greater sense of self in time, to recognize priorities shifting with the experience of life events and acceptance change is inevitable.
Reverb by Michaela Romesburg
Reverb by Michaela Romesburg won First Place in the Windham Ruby+Bee Fabric Challenge at QuiltCon 2025. This challenge was defined by the parameters that, "Quilts must use at least 3 of the 6 challenge fabrics chosen by featured artist Tara Faughnan. The challenge is open to individuals or groups."
Light Me Up by Lindsey Berres
Light Me Up by Lindsey Berres won First Place in the American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge at QuiltCon 2025. She says about her work, "I designed this quilt using varying values of overlapping red, green, and blue (the primary colors of light) to create the spectrum of colors that converge to form the white center. I wanted to create the effect of additive light with fabric, which is a medium that gets its color through pigment, not light."
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