Artist: Kitty Vangunten - Simsbury, CT USA

Materials and Techniques: Thread painted cotton fabric.

Artist's Statement: Bodo is a German shepherd puppy in training to be a guide dog. During the 14 or so months he is with us he is a member of our family.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Esther Muh - Albany, California USA

Materials and Techniques: machine pieced, quilted, and bound, with some decorative hand quilting

Artist's Statement: I pulled out scraps of my favorite background colors that I use often--different shades of white, teals, and grays. Then I followed a score out of my current favorite sewing book--"The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters," by S.L. Wood.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Michelle A Banton - Lunenburg, MA USA

Materials and Techniques: Cotton fabrics and leather. Design based on Dresden Plate, Pieced and machine appliqued. Machine quilted.

Artist's Statement: On of my favorite places to visit is New York City because of all the hustle and bustle. I love seeing the colors, the people, the architecture, the smells and tastes - but I wouldn't want to live there. Too much mayhem on a daily basis for me. In my quilting I've been having fun with the Dresden Plate and doing all sorts of variations.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Sarah Entsminger - Ashburn, VA USA

Materials and Techniques: Hand dyed cotton fabrics and commercial variegated threads. Machine pieced and machine quilted.

Artist's Statement: Dappled sunshine, a gentle breeze, the rustling of leaves and a slow moving creek. These are the sights and sounds that describe one of my favorite things - walking in the park. Being out in nature, either hiking or walking, provides a connection to the land that is essential to me as well as an opportunity to calm my soul. Piedmont Park is one of my favorite places to walk.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Award: Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Maude Wallace Haeger - West chester, OH USA

Materials and Techniques: Cotton fabrics, gauze, thread. Piecing, embroidery, and thread painting.

Artist's Statement: Go Fish is a favorite childhood card game, first of all. I personally like to work bigger than 16 inches, so this is always a challenge to get all I have to say in such a little space. I have many "favorites" in the quilt making world. When I am frustrated I LOVE to create the paper pieced points of what I consider the "crown" of the New York Beauty quilts - it is very controlled and and I feel in control of the process which helps me out of frustration. I LOVE to do various types of embroidery and have since I was a child. I used to do it all by hand, and have the quilt to prove it, but now I use the sewing machine and Solvy. The fish designs were created for a much larger quilt that has a whole fish pond in a center garden pond, but for this piece, I was able to place fish in the center of the "sun" and then have one fish kind of jumping in just for fun and to create more depth to the piece. I also like to create depth through visual means in my pieces, thus you will also see pieces of net which add one more layer of depth to the piece. Many of my newest pieces have layer upon layer of filmy cloth and lots of embroidering which create an enriched surface that looks vaguely like pastel. I also love color which should be apparent from the piece.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Lisa Ellis - Fairfield, VA USA

Materials and Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted. Materials: Commercial cottons

Artist's Statement: My obsession with the cathedral window block started with a quilt my grandmother made in the 1970’s using a variety of bright, cheerful, and colorful fabrics. She made the block the traditional way by folding squares of muslin, adding the colorful windows, and hand stitching back the flaps. I developed a new method to make a mock cathedral window entirely by machine and to incorporate more fabrics into the block. Color Play honors the tradition of my grandmother with an exploration of color. 

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Michele Muska - Enfield, CT USA

Materials and Techniques: Vintage feed sack yo yo's, hand stitching, prairie points

Artist's Statement: I adore yo yo's for the intimate time you spend with yourself while making them. These yo yo's were a left over vintage block that I removed several from so I would have space to hand stitch. When women started working out of the home in the 40's they still felt a need to be useful and hand stitching fulfilled that niche. It fulfills mine as well.

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Laurie Russman - New York City, NY USA

Materials and Techniques: Black Cherrywood and green ice-dyed cotton, fused appliqué, machine quilting

Artist's Statement: Inspired by the way our cat appeared to us one summer day, sunning himself in the myrtle, I wanted to capture the brilliant green of his eyes and how they echoed the leaves (while his sleek black fur nearly disappears in the shadows). The only portion of the cat that is appliquéd is his ears...the rest is simply delineated by lots of black metallic thread!

Size: 16" x 16"

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Artist: Laurie Russman - New York City, NY USA

Materials and Techniques: Batiks, acrylic paint, fabric ink, fused appliqué and (lots of) machine quilting

Artist's Statement: A snowy walk with a very handsome visiting Fidelco Guide Dog inspired this piece. It took a few rounds of fusing, inking and stitching before I was happy with his face...the background was sponged with white and grey paint then free-motion-quilted to simulate the snowy background and path that beckoned us.

Size: 16" x 16"

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