Friday, September 07, 2007

Past ribbon winners: Innovative Pieced

Stellar Nursery


Quilt above is "Stellar Nursery" - made by Ann Harwell of North Carolina. Second place winner in the category Innovative Pieced, Small at the 2005 Houston International Quilt Festival.

I was thinking I would post a series of past ribbon winners, and I found this one, which I like quite a lot. Not many people do arty quilts with commercial fabrics, probably because it strands you competitively between the "traditional" quilt world and the "art quilt" one, which mostly seems to expect you to dye your own fabrics. You notice this was not entered in an art quilt category. (I have a couple more pictures of Ann Harwell's quilts - here and here - but those are both much more pictorial than this.)