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What's New
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What's New
& News in Quilting Around the World
By Lois Marilyn Verma
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Winners in QNM Birthday
Quilt Contest Announced
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A little more than a year ago Quilter's Newsletter Magazine issued a challenge to its readers in honor of its upcoming thirty-fifth birthday. Offering $35,000 in cash prizes, the magazine asked quiltmakers to submit quilts in 2004 based on inspiration, information, and imagination they'd found in back issues.
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Jessica's Garden, 75" x 75", by Marilyn Rombough of Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
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And respond they did, making this ninth contest sponsored by QNM one of the most interesting for the judges and viewers alike. The finalist quilts hung in the Primedia Gallery in Golden, Colorado, through June, and will be on exhibit at the International Quilt Market and Festival/Houston in October/November and at the International Quilt Festival/Chicago in April 2005. Images of some of the quilts are shown throughout this issue: on the cover; in a pattern; on the news pages; in Readers' Quilt Show; and in Photo Finish.
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Birds Among the Flowers, 55" x 67", by Kathleen McCrady, Austin, Texas.
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This month's cover quilt, The Big Parade by Rita Verroca of Westlake Village, California, was named best of show and earned her the grand prize of $5,000. Rita combined elements from a number of previous issues in her hand appliqued and hand quilted traditional design.
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Letters to Ken, 54" x 60", by Bonnie Hwang of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, second place winner in the art category.
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The category Sign of the Times celebrated the year of QNM's founding. Quilters responded with a number of humorous as well as emotional entries capturing elements from those turbulent times, including the first place winner, Nineteen Sixty-nine, by Rosemary Bawn of Stow, Massachusetts. Rosemary's quilt is shown in the Reader's Quilt Show article in the September '04 issue of QNM. The second place winner by Suzanne Mouton Riggio of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, also entitled Nineteen Sixty-nine, is shown in the Photo Finish column of that same issue. Honoring Those Who Served by Ann Horton of Ukiah, California, received third place, and the judges awarded an honorable mention to Stacie Mann of Lee, Maine, for In Your Eyes.
A complete list of winners and finalists is available here.
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Aubergine Beauty, 48" x 48", by Victoria Meredith Lord of Atlanta, Georgia.
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