The Sew & Sews quilt show at Treasure Mountain Festival ended a successful weekend with close to 400 visitors viewing an array of beautiful antique to modern quilts. Visitors enjoyed seeing a wide variety of colors and patterns.
Debe Thomas’s Bee Happy quilt earned her the judges’ choice overall award. The viewers’ choice award went to Jamey Wimer’s Flower Garden quilt. Each year guild members participate in a fabric challenge. This year’s theme was Log Cabin Fever. Chickadees at the Cabin, wall hanging created by Paula Waggy, was selected by quilt show attendees to receive the viewers’ choice award.
Holly Hubbs spent the weekend spinning wool and explaining the process. Jasmine Hanger demonstrated hand quilting.
First, second, third and honorable mention awards were given for the entries in the following categories:
Machine quilted bed quilt — Jamey Wimer, Shooting Star, first place; Melinda Walker, Botanic Park, second place; and Wimer, New York Beauty, third place. Honorable mention awards were given to Thomas, Kate’s Garden; Kitty Carson, Sage & Sea Glass; Bev Eye, Family Traditions; and Shirley Shank, Water Falls.
Hand quilted cross stitch quilt — Cornelia Teter, Blue Bird Cottage, first place.
Hand quilted bed quilt — Alice Hartman, Sampler, first place, exhibited by Heidi Hartman; Jo Ann Dever, Carnation Burst, second place; Alice Hartman, Colonial Blue Geese, third place, exhibited by Heidi Hartman; and Bonnie Simmons, Barnaster, honorable mention.
Antique crazy quilt — Estelle Wagner, Crazy Quilt, first place; and Rebecca Lough, Crazy Quilt, second place.
Antique hand quilted bed quilt — Lough, Wagon Wheel, first place; Lough, Flower Garden, second place; and Susan Bennett, Double Wedding Ring, third place.
Antique bed quilt, machine quilted — Frank O’Hara, Vintage, first place.
Lap quilt/throw, machine quilted — Pam Hartman, Liberty for All, first place; Patty Sickler, Lilacs in Bloom, second place; and Walker, Future Farmers of America, third place. Honorable mention awards were given to Sickler, Our Flag Stands for Freedom, and Sue Slowinski, Bright Mosaic.
Lap quilt/throw, hand quilted — Wimer, Trip Around the World, first place; and Hubbs, Tannenbaum, second place.
Large wall hanging, machine quilted — Shirley Shank, Sea To Shining Sea, and Thomas, Bee Happy, tie for first place; Pam Sexton, Rip Tide, second place; Bonnie Colson, Kittie Collection, third place; and Mary Grace Richardson, Chickadee, honorable mention.
Medium wall hanging, hand quilted — Eye, Birds, first place.
Baby quilt, machine quilted — Frances Wilkey, Unicorn Meadow, first place.
Crocheted afghans — Wagner, wool afghan, first place; and Sherry Crigler, crocheted afghan, second place
Applique quilt, hand quilted — Wimer, Flower Garden, first place; Alice Hartman, Quilt, second place; and Alice Hartman, Red Pineapple “1985,” third place. Both of Hartman’s quilts were exhibited by Heidi Hartman.
Antique miscellaneous — Ida Smith, antique coverlet, exhibited by Darrell Bodkin, first place.
Miscellaneous quilted arts — Barbara Umling, antique doll blanket, first place.
Needlework miscellaneous — Dever, Christmas Truck Cross Stitch, first place.
Needlework counted cross stitch —Crigler, afghan and doily, first place.
Miscellaneous household items/table runners — Rose Miller, Christmas Stockings, first place; Eye, Vases of Flowers, second place; Miller, Pink Table Runner, third place; and Miller, Yo-yos pillow, honorable mention.
The youth division winners were as follows:
Lap Quilt, machine quilted — Stratton Harris, Bear Necessities, first place.
Bed quilt, hand quilted —Alex Adams, View of West Virginia, first place.
Miscellaneous — Zander Adams, pillow and doll-pieced, first place.
