We (me & my quilting friends) have been entering the Smoky Mountain Quilt Show in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's a popular show & they give cash prizes and beautiful ribbons to talented entrants.
This year Denniele Bohannon won two honors. A Third in "Small Pieced/Team" for her and Quilter Sue Daurio, above. (We are still a little confused as to prizes but here's what we know today.)
Becky Collis won an Honorable Mention in "Small Pieced Solo"
for her reproduction of a quilt attributed to Susan B. Anthony, a commission from
a museum featuring Susan B. Becky did the piecing and the machine quilting.
The antique quilt is in the Susan B Anthony house in
Rochester, New York.
Karla Menaugh did not win a prize for her Trefoils in Blue,
inspired by a quilt in Pamela Dinndorf's Colorific book.
but it was accepted and hung....A prize in itself.
A couple we sent did not make the cut for inclusion.
See below for our Salon des Refuses.
Denniele won another award in the Modern category
for Agency, made in a Maria Shell workshop.
We had entries that were not hung. Here's our
Salon de Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects."
Kamala's Star, design by me and Denniele, top by Denniele,
Quilting by Sue Daurio
Perhaps our quilts were too political....
"Sew Sue Me!" a group quilt recording the current regime.
Set by Denniele; quilted by Becky.
You ought to plan to attend next year. One more reason: Merikay and Jan do a "Bed-Turning" program every year examining antique quilts.
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