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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Award Winning Quilts @ the Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum




Museum is hosting award
winning quilts from the





Every year the National Quilt Museum hosts a themed quilt contest and judges them.  After the awards have been given, selected quilts tour the country for two years.  The theme of the 2016 contest is New Quilts From An Old Favorite: Flying Geese.  The finalists and the winners are on display and I am excited to see the variety of quilts that used the Flying Geese quilting pattern.

The Flying Geese Quilting Pattern uses triangles.  It will be interesting to see how the quilters used this basic geometric form in their works.  To build suspense, I'm going to show the finalists' quilts first.  






Fly Away Home by 
Anita M.  Karban-Neef


















Farm Alarm by
Sue Turnquist
Tifton, Georgia

Tiny Triangles make
up the Rooster's
tail.















Twirly Birds by
Julia Graber













On The Wings of Eternity
Jean Breuggenjohann
Columbia, Missouri

I spent a lot of time
looking at this
intricate quilt.











Some quilt names are obvious to the non-quilter, some are not.






Destination Unknown
by Mary Kay Davis
Sunnyvale, California





Celebration by
Gail Gerber






Silly Goose by
Chris Lynn Kirsch
Watertown, Wisconsin



Glad Plaid Goose Dance by
Ann L. Petersen

Plaids are carefully
chosen for sections
of this quilt.







Chilly Goose,
No Feathers
by Alicia Sterna
Surprise, Arizona









Lucy Goosey @
 the Improv by
Katie Pidgeon





Moonlight Migration
by Jane Zillmer
Mercer, Wisconsin



Poursuite D'Oie
Sauvange a Paris
(Wild Goose Chase
in Paris) by
Charlene Hearst

























Follow the Geese though the City of Paris... the Arc de Triomphe 
is located at the Place du Carrousel

Counting down the award winning quilts...  Fifth Place...





Jacob's Plumage by
Patricia A. Hobbs















Fourth Place...





I Don't Know If I'm
Coming Or Going by
Leslie Johnson














Third Place....






Soaring To New Heights by
Judy Stokes 
Colleen Eskridge













Second Place....






Saturday Night @ The
Honk-y Tonk Saloon by
Robin Gausebeck













First Place....
























Migration Patterns by Susan Morgan

I just added Paducha, Kentucky to my list of cities to visit....  I have to visit the National Quilt Museum.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I love this Blog the quilts were amazing!