On the eve of 2018
Wisconsin Public Television Quilt Expo, I photographed the winning quilts at the Alliant Energy Center among the colorful maze of contest entries. The quilts were still being judged as I was setting up my equipment. The staff and volunteers were anxiously awaiting the guarded list of winners to be delivered. It felt like we were part of an exclusive club of insiders who would know the results before everyone else. After the list was delivered we quickly got to work. The volunteers with their cotton gloves brought each quilt for me to photograph. I was impressed to see the variety of design categories and humbled by the creativity and time invested in making these works of art.
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Best of Show
Taking the Unmapped Road
Margaret Solomon Gunn, Gorham, Maine
QUILTED BY Margaret Solomon Gunn |
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Second Place Machine
Quilted Bed Size Appliquéd
In the Garden
Kim Lapacek, Poynette, Wis.
QUILTED BY Frank Palmer |
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First Place
Machine Quilted Bed Size Pieced
Free Fallin’
Kathie Beltz, Greenfield, N.H.
QUILTED BY Mara Novak |
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First Place
Wall Quilts, Machine Quilted Pictorial
Jars of Clay
Sharon L. Schlotzhauer, Monument, Colo.
QUILTED BY Sharon L. Schlotzhauer |
