Nancy Enault lives in California and teaches at a local quilt store. She entered two needleturn applique quilts in her guild's annual quilt show.
"Rabbit Hollow" won Best in Show and Best Applique.
"Red Blossoms" quilt won Honorable Mention.
Hortense Beck of Topeka, Kansas, was featured in September's BAS Society Sampler. She has quilted over forty-five award winning, museum level quilts, six of which are in the Baltimore Album style. She has designed her own quilts and copied antiques quilts as well.
This is the center of her "Baltimore Album" quilt.
Copy of "Bible Quilt" by Harriet Powers. The original is in the Smithsonian Museum.
A copy of a "Baltimore Album" quilt that is owned by the University of Nebraska.
"Noah's Ark" Inspired by the 1850's painting by Edward Hicks.
This quilt was started on the 4th of July, 1987, when Reagan unveiled the restored Statue of Liberty. Note the New York skyline with the Twin Towers in the border.
Detail of the "Statue of Liberty" quilt. Figures are Hortense's great grandmother-in-law and her children from Austria in 1898 at Ellis Island. She came with only one trunk.
Copy of the original "Trade and Commerce" 1830 in New York State Historical Society in Cooperstown, New York.
Original is of the Abbey Aldridge's Collection in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Center of the "Mary Brown" quilt.
"Home Quilt" giving details of her family's history - even the three white German Shepherds and the Myna bird that sang, "Isn't it a lovely day to be caught in the rain."
"Bird of Paradise" - a bride's quilt. Original, 1858-1863 in the Folk Art Museum in New York City.
"Joseph's Quilt" (Grandson's drawing)
Darlene C. Christopherson, from China Spring, Texas, is author of "A Perfect Union of Patchwork & Applique".
A block from a quilt called "Aborgine"
"Compasses and Cutwork" shows circular patchwork and applique.
"Evening Star" featured in "Scrap Quilts, Fast and Fun" by Oxmoor House and "Sensational Scrap Quilts" by Darra Williamson [AQS]
Darlene Christopherson's pattern "Lady Bird's Rose Garden" was featured in the book More Vertical Quilts with Style by Sharon Newman and Bobbie Aug [AQS]
Detail of "Lady Bird's Rose Garden".
"Nesting Bird"
Judy Morton and members of the Raintree Quilters Guild, Newburgh, IN created the replica of the "William Henry Harrison Whig Rose" quilt.
Replica of the quilt made by Eliza Fairhurst House, 1788-1878, in her teens. From Grouseland Mansion built by William Henry Harrison in Vincennes, IN. Will be auctioned September 4, 2004 at the Amish Quilt Auction, Cannelburg, IN. All proceeds will go to Grouseland Mansion.
Detail of the "William Henry Harrison Whig Rose" quilt
Block from the "William Henry Harrison Whig Rose" quilt