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2017 Quilt Competition Winners

Pacific International Quilt Festival XXVI

Santa Clara, California          October 12-15, 2017

Not Fade Away Quilt Competition

 

The Yuko Watanabe BEST OF SHOW Award:
#2071 Eternal Beauty by Sherry Reynolds

 The BERNINA 1^st Runner-Up Award: #1071 Fractal by Claudia Pfeil

 

INNOVATIVE:
First Place: #1087 The Sprinter by Birgit Schueller


Second Place:  #1045 Here’s Lookin’ at You by Wendy Knight


Third Place: #1026 Garden Party #2 by Caryl Fallert-Gentry


Honorable Mentions (2):
#1068 Garden Memories by John Palmer


#1032 The Moon is Made of Green Cheese by Sue Frame

Best Sewing Machine Workmanship: #1001 Braveheart
by Linda Anderson

Best Longarm Machine Workmanship: #1035 Byzantine Beauties
by Tami Graeber

Best Hand Workmanship: #1064 A Bittersweet Bouquet by Marie O’Kelley

Best Use of Color: #1046 Ammonite Confusion by Kimberly Lacy

Best Pictorial Quilt: #1086 Mont St. Michel Memories by Linda Schmidt
 

Best Interpretation of Theme: #1028 Sue’s Journals by Sue Fiscalini 
         

 

TRADITIONAL:
First Place: #2003 Supernova by Marilyn Badger


Second Place:  #2068 Old Glory Under His Wings by Julee Prose


Third Place: #2010 A Taste of Tie by Inger Blood 

 
Honorable Mentions (2):
#2043 Tumbling Logs by Dorothy Gustin


#2087 828 Valence St. by Laurie Tigner
  

Best Sewing Machine Workmanship: #2082 Grandmother’s Cabin
by Rahna Summerlin
  

Best Longarm Machine Workmanship: #2083 Silver and Gold Series II
by Betty Tang
  

Best Hand Workmanship: #2042 Hawaiian Garden by Beverly Gulley

Best Use of Color: #2020 Color and Passion 1 by Geneva Foote Carroll

Best Pictorial Quilt: #2073 Hummingbirds Delight by Rosillis Rosario
 

Best Interpretation of Theme: #2037 Crazy Chemo Quilt (detail)
by Jean Gillette
   

 BEST WALL QUILT:
#3108 Jars of Clay by Sharon L. Schlotzhauer


Second Place:  #3001 Joshua is Jazz by Linda Anderson


Third Place: #3048 A Glimpse Through the Lattice – Cattails
by Julia Graber


Honorable Mentions (2):
#3040 Medieval by Karen G. Fisher


#3075 Sandstone Portal by Linda MacKown

Best Sewing Machine Workmanship: #3061 Acer Macrophyllum
by Lisa Jenni 
 

Best Longarm Machine Workmanship: #3019 Pepper Dish
by Linda Burrell
          

Best Hand Workmanship: #3041 A Nighttime Garden by Judie Fleming

Best Use of Color: #3105 Poinsettia by Laura Ruiz

Best Interpretation of Theme: #3091 Valparaiso Rowhouses
by Randa Mulford

NACQJ Ribbon (Pat Harrison): #3088 Liz, From a Selfie
by Sandra L. Mollen

JUDGE’S CHOICE RIBBONS
Frieda Anderson:#1031 I Heard a Bird Sing by Sue Frame


Pat Harrison:#3020 Forest Park Patrol by Rosemary Burris


Marjan Kluepfel:#1012 River Oak by River City Quilter's Guild


Angela Madden:#2029 Flourish on the Vine by Sharon Engel


Dixie McBride:#3027 Sanctuary 2 by Barbara Confer


Pat Yamin:#2057 Garden of Blue by Karen Litvinchuk

 VIEWER’S CHOICE: #1071 Fractal by Claudia Pfeil