Award: Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Sandi Goldman - Annandale, VA USA

Materials and Techniques: Digital Photo on fabric, Improvisational machine piecing with commercial cotton fabrics, Hand and Machine Quilting with cotton and rayon threads

Artist's Statement: For over 2 years one of my daily art practices has been to post a flower photo on social media. I take many of my photos on walks in my neighborhood in Northern Virginia where there are so many beautiful flowers. In this piece I got to play with some of my favorite things photography and fabric.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Melanie Marr - Houston, Texas USA

Materials and Techniques: Materials used are black fabric, acrylic paints, batting, stabilizer, and thread. Techniques: used are that the image is drawn onto fabric, painted, then quilted.

Artist's Statement: "Joyous" was inspired by a photo from a trip my family and I took to the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. The Panda is my favorite type of bear and in the photo the Panda seemed joyous and content.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Mary K Davis - Sunnyvale, CA USA

Materials and Techniques: Machine appliqued and quilted with a little bit of glue thrown in.

Artist's Statement: I think it would be great fun to restore a vintage camper. Wouldn't it be wonderful to hit the road with your sewing machine and your favorite sock monkey while enjoying the great outdoors?

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Paula Nadelstern's Judge's Choice

Artist: Mary K Davis - Sunnyvale, CA USA

Materials and Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted.

Artist's Statement: This quilt started out as two blocks I created for another challenge. I decided to "challenge" myself by making them into 5" blocks. I love the idea of "following your arrow" or making your own path. Whatever it takes to make you happy!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Allie Aller - Washougal, Wa USA

Materials and Techniques: Silk fusion "fabric", hand dyed cotton, black solid cotton. Machine appliqued and quilted.

Artist's Statement: I've loved making stained glass quilts for two decades now. There are always new ways to experiment with this genre!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sue K Gies - Custer, SD USA

Materials and Techniques: Quilted as if a wholecloth quilt with metalic yarn thread. Then I colored with water color pencils for textile, blended with Inktense pencils then used textile medium to seal and blend. I then hand sewed on 100s of glass beads.

Artist's Statement: My favorite quilting technique is to always try new and different things. This one was quilted as if a whole cloth with a sparkling metalic thread, then painted with a water color technique then blended using paint media. Then hand beading was sewn on. This was new and challenging to me and that is why it would be considered playing favorites.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sue K Gies - Custer, SD USA

Materials and Techniques: I used mostly batik fabric, and the background was gradation, which make the bird look as though it has sun shinning on him. I used a raw edge applique technique with a blanket stitch prior to quilting it. I custom quilted it with many circles and fern motif that I designed. The pattern was from Edyta Sitar (Laundry Baskets) a class I took.

Artist's Statement: I have many favorites when it comes to quilting and applique has to be right at the top. I generally pick out patterns that have some applique in them, or I end up adding something during the process. This one also has piecing and applique and I love Edyta Sitar's technique of piecing. I took this online class from her and it was so much fun. Quilting is also right at the top of my favorite. I am a longarm quilter and love to try all sorts of stitches. I like the small and detail stitching. The more quilting the more I like it.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sue K Gies - Custer, SD USA

Materials and Techniques: This was an applique design from Happy Hollow designs. I use soft and bright batting from warm and natural in most all my quilts especially wall hangings. I used glide thread.

Artist's Statement: This was just a cute pattern and just had to make it. I love cute things. Applique is one of my favorite Techniques: along with quilting. I used the blanket stitch around applique then quilted it. I have a longarm machine and love to see what designs I can come up with. Love detailed designs, the smaller the better. Love to give my quilts depth with stitches. I did a little thread painting when I quilted it to make it look like fur.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sue K Gies - Custer, SD USA

Materials and Techniques: This is primarily art quilt with multiple layers, lots of detailed quilting and rhinestones added to give it illusion of rain.

Artist's Statement: I am just learning to make art quilts and I am loving it. This is my own design and reminds me of when I was a little girl. I love to challenge myself with new and different work. So I wanted an art quilt that had landscape and something of my childhood. I loved playing in the rain as a little girl, and my grandmother would always tell my to take an umbrella. This little quilt has a lot of my favorites all in one. Applique, art quilt, detailed quilting, uniqueness, a hidden bird and its just fun.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: MARIA R GOODWIN - Washington, DC USA

Materials and Techniques: Machine pieced. Machine Quilted. Sea shells. Cotton and batik fabrics. Poly-cotton & rayon threads.

Artist's Statement: Favorites are: Symbols/History/Color. This (patchwork) piece uses them to remember African American participation in World War I. Red/White/Blue: USA; Blue Star/Gold Star: Military Service & those who did/did not return; Gold: medals & honor awarded & earned; Red/Black poppy: military memorial flower; Cowrie shell: African American heritage.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Mark Lipinski's Judge's Choice AND Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill - Woodbridge, CT USA

Materials and Techniques: Materials: Cotton Fabric, Cotton Thread, Cotton Batting Techniques: Foundation Paper Piecing, Domestic Machine Quilted

Artist's Statement: I designed and produced Up and Away using one of my favorite piecing techniques—foundation paper piecing. I love paper piecing because I can design and execute precise design elements. All of my paper piecing designs are created in Adobe Illustrator. I also love testing out new designs on a small scale before producing them larger. This challenge was the perfect opportunity to prototype a new design!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill - Woodbridge, CT USA

Materials and Techniques: Materials: Cotton Fabric, Cotton Thread, Cotton Batting Techniques:: Domestic Machine Quilted

Artist's Statement: Petite Picnic Petals is a modern quilt that is based on the Flowering Snowball block, one of my favorite traditional blocks. This mini, or petite, quilt is a variation on my large Picnic Petals pattern design. While I've made many large Flowering Snowball blocks, I've never scaled down the block this small (approximately 4" x 4"). This challenge was a good opportunity to explore scale.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill - Woodbridge, CT USA

Materials and Techniques: Materials: Cotton Fabric, Cotton Thread, Cotton Batting Techniques: Foundation Paper Piecing, Domestic Machine Quilted

Artist's Statement: So Many Colors is a tribute to one of my favorite brands of threads using one of my favorite piecing techniques—foundation paper piecing. The spools are actual size. The same brand of thread was used for piecing and quilting—all colors are Cotton 50wt.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: María J González Rico - Alcorcón, Madrid España

Materials and Techniques: Turn appliqué, painting, punching. Materials used: cotton fabrics, hand dyed fabric, wool, textile paint, cotton fabric, poliester thread.

Artist's Statement: This work I have experimented with point and machine punching, to give depth and texture to this country landscape.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: 3rd Place

Artist: María J González Rico - Alcorcón, Madrid España

Materials and Techniques: Techniques:: raw edge appliqué and quilting machine. Materials: cotton fabric, cotton batting, thermoweb stabilizer, poliester thread and metalic thread.

Artist's Statement: I love to use optical efects to cause an unexpected feeling of movement to draw the attention of the viewer to different areas of my work.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: 1st Place

Artist: NANCY S BROWN - OAKLAND, California USA

Materials and Techniques: 100 % cotton fabrics. Hand appliqued and hand quilted. Some embroidery.

Artist's Statement: When I was a child my Aunt Zelma visited Australia and when she came back she told me about the most amazing creatures that she had seen. It was then that I fell in love with the animals of Australia. I love them all but I think that kangaroos would have to be my favorites. This quilt depicts two young kangaroos at a meeting.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Christine S Bradford - Washington, DC USA

Materials and Techniques: 100% cottons, batiks and regular cottons. Four of the Funny Faces were painted on wax batik. Artist paint sticks were also used.

Artist's Statement: One of my Favorite Things is to use my orphan blocks in a new project. This orphan block is a disappearing 9-patch, using batiks. The label on the back is also an orphan block.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Callie E Lavoie - Wells, ME USA

Materials and Techniques: Cotton fabrics, cotton batting, machine pieced, machine quilted.

Artist's Statement: "Playing Favorites" Cool crisp days in Maine beside the ocean. Piecing traditional "Storm at Sea" blocks and reveling in the blue and white palette. All favorites!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Michael E Michalski - Brooklyn, NY USA

Materials and Techniques: Commercial cottons, nylon tulle, cotton string, cotton and rayon threads. Foundation paper pieced, appliqued, and quilted on domestic machine, piping.

Artist's Statement: I have a background in theatrical costumes, and love to use Techniques: and materials usually associated with clothing not quilts. I work at creating dimensionality by finishing portions separately then overlapping them, and also by including open spaces. On 'Solar Flare' sections of the background are sheer, allowing whatever surface it is displayed against to factor into it's final appearance. My favorite way to play always includes trying new things.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: 2nd Place

Artist: Betsy Vinegrad - Short Hills, NJ USA

Materials and Techniques: Techniques: Designed in Electric Quilt 7, paper pieced, walking foot and free motion quilting, Materials: Commercial cottons, solids, prints and batiks. Backing is made from fabrics used on the front. Wool and cotton batting.

Artist's Statement: Quilts and pizza top my list of favorites. I made a pizza quilt, "No Slices! Fuggedaboutit!", for Empire Quilters 2011 President's Challenge, Landmarks of New York. It won 1st place because it was the president's favorite. Fans offered to buy it because it was their favorite. My husband objected because it was his favorite. Since there wasn't enough pizza to go around, I had to make "More Slices" for the Quilt Alliance, my favorite charity.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sue Rook Nichols - Riverside, CA USA

Materials and Techniques: 100% cotton fabric and batting, fusible applique, free motion quilting on a long arm using several brands of rayon and polyester threads.

Artist's Statement: One of my favorite things to do at the end of the day is to sit on the patio with a glass of wine. I love bright fabrics and simple motifs and I am learning to love fusible applique.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Mary Whittaker - Orlando, FL USA

Materials and Techniques: Materials: wool, cotton for binding and backing, a variety of threads of different weights and materials, beads Techniques:: hand appliquéd, hand quilted, used a variety of embroidery stitches

Artist's Statement: My favorite technique is creating contemporary folk art using wool, threads and stitches to create a design and texture. The touch of the wool, threads, and embellishments while 'painting' with wool allow me to play and truly feed my soul with each project. I chose to play with the sugar skull for the embellishment opportunities and their part of the Dia de los Muertos celebration which is also my birthday!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Charlotte Noll - Lauderhill, Florida USA

Materials and Techniques: Background raw noil silk to look like grout, batiks and handdyes. Raw edge appliqued/quilted with silk thread.

Artist's Statement: My favorite things besides quilts are orchids and butterflies. I took a picture of a newly birthed monarch on an orchid plant in my butterfly garden and made a mosaic pattern from it. I love to use my mosaic quilt technique especially to depict nature. The raw noil silk looks like grout and the batiks, hand dyes have the look of glass.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Jessica Skultety - Phillipsburg, NJ USA

Materials and Techniques: Solid fabrics (Kona, Cloud9 Cirrus Solids, FreeSpirit). Machine applique, domestic machine free motion quilting.

Artist's Statement: This quilt encapsulates my current quilting loves: solid fabrics, cool colors, machine applique, and free motion quilting. Orange peels have become my signature style; I love how versatile and whimsical they are. I'm currently creating a body of work featuring the orange peel in modern/modern traditional quilts under the hashtag #jsorangepeelcollection. It's my hope that I'll never run out of ideas, because making orange peels is, in a word, comforting.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Linda M Robertus - Grange, QLD Australia

Materials and Techniques: hand-dyed and commercial cotton, machine piecing and quilting

Artist's Statement: My favourite quilt design is the Lone Star, and I enjoy trying to come up with new ideas to use this traditional design in modern ways.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Pam Neil - Louisville, Kentucky USA

Materials and Techniques: Cotton fabrics from the VFW collection Mostly Manor. King Tut variegated cotton thread used for machine quilting (Superior Threads). VFW's DWR template for the background/center and her full melon template for the "seed" shaped pieces. Curved machine piecing, appliqued corners, hand sewn beads and vintage jewelry, hand embroidery, machine quilting to create the rows where seeds are planted.

Artist's Statement: This simple quilt is dedicated to all those teachers who plant seeds of encouragement to try new Techniques:. One favorite teacher in particular was inspiration for this quilt since I will be taking a DWR class with her in the Fall and wanted to give it a try before I showed up for class. Can you guess the name of this favorite teacher? She encourages us all to begin with 15 minutes of play!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Garen Sherwood - Norwalk, Ct USA

Materials and Techniques: Paper piecing. Machine quilting.

Artist's Statement: All my favorites are in the UK! Favorite post! Favorite house! Favorite close! Favorite park - Windsor Great Park. Favorite ! Favorite! Favorite! My happy Union Jack seemed perfect for a little Princess!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Esther Muh - Albany, California USA

Materials and Techniques: machine pieced, quilted, and bound

Artist's Statement: My daughter and I love collecting strawberry print fabric. So we have selected some of our favorite ones to share with you as "polaroid snapshots."

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sherri Lipman McCauley - Lakeway, Texas USA

Materials and Techniques: Hand dyed fabric, painted and stenciled. Circles appliqued and adhered with Mistyfuse. Machine stitched and quilted.

Artist's Statement: I like to work extemporaneously and in the abstract. Bright colors tend to excite me, as well as geometry and asymmetry. I typically work in the moment, working with paints and dyes on fabric, creating serendipitous designs. The simple line of a geometric shape, the blast of a colorful line, or the contrast of black against white makes my canvas sing.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sherri Lipman McCauley - Lakeway, Texas USA

Materials and Techniques: Hand painted and stenciled fabric. Circles appliqued and adhered with Mistyfuse. Machine stitched and quilted.

Artist's Statement: I like to work extemporaneously and in the abstract. Bright colors tend to excite me, as well as geometry and asymmetry. I typically work in the moment, working with paints and dyes on fabric, creating serendipitous designs. The simple line of a geometric shape, the blast of a colorful line, or the contrast of black against white makes my canvas sing.

Size: 16" x 16"

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