Award Winning Quilts @ the Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum

Harlingen Arts & Heritage

Museum is hosting award

winning quilts from the

National Quilt Museum

in Paducah, Kentucky.

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

Cary, Illinois

Farm Alarm by

Sue Turnquist

Tifton, Georgia

Tiny Triangles make
up the Rooster's
tail.

Twirly Birds by

Julia Graber

Brooksville, Mississippi

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

Rio Rancho,

 New Mexico

Silly Goose by
Chris Lynn Kirsch
Watertown, Wisconsin

Glad Plaid Goose Dance by

Ann L. Petersen

Surprise, Arizona

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

Toronto, Ontario,

Canada

Moonlight Migration
by Jane Zillmer
Mercer, Wisconsin

Poursuite D'Oie

Sauvange a Paris

(Wild Goose Chase

in Paris) by

Charlene Hearst

Toronto, Ontario,

Canada

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

Macomb, Illinois

Fourth Place...

I Don't Know If I'm

Coming Or Going by

Leslie Johnson

Arvada, Colorado

Third Place....

Soaring To New Heights by

Judy Stokes 

Columbus, Mississippi &

Colleen Eskridge

Boone, North Carolina

Second Place....

Saturday Night @ The

Honk-y Tonk Saloon by

Robin Gausebeck

Rockford, Illinois

First Place....

Migration Patterns by Susan Morgan

Mobile, Alabama

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