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Quilt Photos 151 through 200 from the
Program booklet
Machine Quilters Showcase at
Springfield, Illinois, June 9-12, 1999
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We wish to thank Pat and Peter Masley woodchuc@wcta.net for their work in compiling this information for YOU. Without their work we would be a good month getting this information to you. They also compiled all this information for the original MQS program(s) for its first three years of showcases. The showcase community in general owes these two a big THANK YOU for three years of dedicated work. Thank you, Pat and Peter.
We also want to thank George Goumas ggoumas@earthlink.net for his work in taking all these wonderful photographs. He did a fantastic job as you will see. You can see more of George's photography of Marge's quilting on their web site http://home.earthlink.net/~ggoumas We also want to thank George for his video program at the Awards Banquet the last night of the Showcase. All the Award winning quilts had their photos flashed on the screen as the awards were presented. Now YOU get to see them in the comfort of your home or studio.
If and/or when you find errors to this web page, PLEASE take the time to email us. Jeff
| MQS final number | Quilt Name: | Machine Quilting by: | Quilt Top by: | Quilt Size: | Pertinent information: | Quilt for Sale? |
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151 |
Blue & White Tradition Won 1st Place Rookie Award $300 | Eleanor Longley Quilted Comfort by Eleanor Longley 1110 East 26th St (2nd floor) Erie, PA 16504 814-461-8499 elongley@aol.com |
Eleanor Longley | 85 x 85 | Always wanted to make a blue and white quilt, 100% Hobbs cotton batt, cotton thread, feather borders & insets complement the era of the earlier traditional quilts. Simple piecing but definitely elegant! | No |
152 |
Black, Yellow & White “Dandelion Splendor” | Eleanor Longley Quilted Comfort by Eleanor Longley 1110 East 26th St (2nd floor) Erie, PA 16504 814-461-8499 elongley@aol.com |
Carol Grieshaber | 90 x 104 | Focal fabric was the inspiration for the pattern design (nature pattern’s from Marcia Steven’s), layering technique for trapunto effect, 100% Hobbs cotton with scrim, ditch, meandering and continuous border with insets, 100% cotton thread. | No |
153 |
Birthday Teapots | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherly Ln Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831-426-3808 |
Bonny Doon Stitches Quilt Group | 70 x 80 | Our small quilt group gave teapot blocks as last year’s birthday gifts to each other. Used “Tony” Cotton thread, Hobbs 80/20 blend batting, stitched through traced tissue paper for blocks; freehand everywhere else. | No |
154 |
Vase Colorwash | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherly Ln Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831-426-3808 |
Diane Liemann | 39 x 55 | I quilted this for a customer, I’ve done a number of colorwash quilts for Diane. “Tony’s” thread & Hobbs 80/20 blend cotton batting. All freehand quilting. | No |
155 |
Oriental Sampler | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Michael McNamara | 56 x 69 | Free motion quilting, Hobbs 80/20 batt. Keryn Emmerson’s bamboo design on the border was done free motion quilting. | No |
156 |
Oak Leaf and Scrap Quilt | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Jean Prosser | 82 x 97 | I used “doctor tissue paper” and free motion quilting. | No |
157 |
Fertility | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Mickey Beebee | 65 x 102 | This kaleidoscope quilt was all free motion quilting. Hobbs 80/20 batting. | No |
158 |
Nite Swirls | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Ester Levandusk | 85 x 85 | Free motion quilting with Hobbs 80/20 batting. I had been practicing the “Crescent Swirl” free motion quilting inspired by Linda Taylor at last year’s MQS showcase. I then studied Helen Squire’s flowing florals from her book “Create with Helen Squire” and used this pattern for the border. | No |
159 |
Mystery Quilt #1 | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Mary Rose Helenthal | 63 x 78 | Free motion quilting with a poly batt. | No |
160 |
Blue Sampler | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Judy Halloway | 62 x 77 | I used “doctor tissue paper” and free motion quilting. Dream cotton batting. This piece was made by the quilt shop owner, Judy Halloway of Judy’s Sewing Center, and quilted by me for display in her quilt shop. | No |
161 |
“Gecko” | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Rachel Clark | 31 x 32 | This small quilt was pieced by the well-known wearable art quilter, Rachel Clark. She prefers dense quilting on all of her quilts. This quilt was one of a set of thirteen pieced by Rachel Clark, and this is one of my favorites. Hobbs 80/20 batting; free motion quilting. | No |
162 |
Amish #1 | Mary Lundberg Flying Geese Quilt Studio 200 Atherley Lane Bonny Doon, CA 95060 831-426-3808 Flyinggeese@surfnetusa.com |
Susan Else | 49 x 49 | Free motion quilting, poly batt. | No |
163 |
Untitled Beauty | Yoke Martens Finally Finished Quilts 16 Gladwin Rd Epsom Aukland, New Zealand 09-6255545 |
Lyn May | 30 x 30 | The pattern used was kaleidoscope. | No |
164 |
A Splash in the South Pacific | Yoke Martens Finally Finished Quilts 16 Gladwin Rd Epsom Aukland, New Zealand 09-6255545 |
Yoke Martens | 34 x 45 | I hand dyed the background material and I learned the dolphins technique in a class taught by a USA teacher, Cindy Walter, called ‘snippets.’ | No |
165 |
The Hanging Gardens Revisited Won a Teacher's Choice Award | Linda Martin |
80 x 96 | This quilt is my adaptation of the “Hanging Gardens” counterpane from the Mountain Mist pattern series. Quilting was achieved by using OESD Isocord threads and YLI perle crown rayon. | No | |
166 |
Dawn’s Early Light | Lynn Massa Butterfly Quilters 1160 Perrett Rd. Hazelhurst, MS 39083 601-894-5140 KC5snd@aol.com |
Lynn Massa | 60 x 74 | Design by Donna Ingram Slusser, “Watercolor Quilts.” Quilting design by Luann Thornton. Quilted in variegated jeans thread. | No |
167 |
Stitches from My Heart Won a Teacher's Choice Award | Lynn Massa Butterfly Quilting 1160 Perrett Rd Hazlehurst, MS 39083 601-894-5140 KC5snd@aol.com |
Lynn Massa | 85 x 92 | Scrappy sampler designed by Veda Wilhite as a block of the month. Quilting is block by block and varied. | No |
168 |
Stars in the Night | Merriel Matthews Custom Quilting 614 26 Rd Grand Junction, CO 81506 970-242-3227 |
Wanda Williams | 76 x 94 | Customer requested edge to edge cloud quilting pattern or whatever I wanted to do. I chose the latter. | No |
169 |
Double Irish Chain | Cecile Mazan Hilltop Quilting |
Cecile Mazan | 70 x 90 | The quilt was made for a friend in Ireland. Cecile liked the first “edition” so much, she kept it and made another for her friend! The quilt is also the very first quilt completed on her machine, so it is very special for several reasons. | No |
170 |
Corn & Beans | Carol McAdow ABY Quilts 5518 Dorsett Dr. Madison, WI 53711 608-271-2378 abyquilts@yahoo.com |
Carol McAdow | 48 x 61 | An old favorite pattern. I used Star mercerized VVV cotton thread and Hobbs’ heirloom 80/20 batting. I also used Gammill’s Circle Ease to make the concentric circles. Border was Norma Woods-Sharp’s variegated shell pattern. | Yes |
171 |
Black Forest | Carol McAdow ABY Quilts 5518 Dorsett Dr. Madison, WI 53711 608-271-2378 abyquilts@yahoo.com |
Judy Hasheider | 53 x 68 | My first attempt at free hand feathers. I used Rheingold metallic thread for the border and LEQ’s feathered rose pattern. The feathers and meandering were done in Star Mercerized VVV. Judy pieced this for a class she taught. | Yes |
172 |
Kansas Troubles | Linda McCuean Amy Baughman Sewing Center 472 Constitution Blvd New Brighton, PA 15066 724-846-8140 (quilt dept) wcas@brads.net |
Linda McCuean | 80 x 98 | Kansas Troubles was pieced from the pattern in Fons & Porter’s “Sew Many Quilts” magazine. The quilting is my version of the old fashioned design on the pictured quilt. All the quilting is free hand and was quilted when I had been quilting on the longarm for 4 months. | No |
173 |
Celebration Won 2nd Place Rookie Award $200 | Linda McCuean Amy Baughman Sewing Center 472 Constitution Blvd New Brighton, PA 15066 724-846-8140 (quilt dept) wcas@brads.net |
Linda McCuean | 86 x 100 | Blocks for this quilt were pieced using Bethany Reynold’s book “Magic Stack-n-Whack Quilts” and a fabric that no one could decide what to do with. | No |
174 |
Log Cabin in the Round | Aline McFadden |
Aline McFadden | 85 x 105 | I made this quilt for my sister in Canada. Quilted with maple leaves in the first border; roses and lilies in the next border; and circle in the center. I used polyfil batting; 100% polyester for overlock. | No |
175 |
Alaskan Sampler Won a Teacher's Choice Award | Karen C. McTavish-Spoden Superior Custom Machine Quilting Studio 22411 Hwy 15 St Cloud, MN 56301 320-252-8891 |
Shirley Yarke | This Alaskan Sampler was done in Batiks, inspired by my customer’s husband’s trip to Alaska. The quilting was inspired by the whole cloth appearance. I love the look of whole cloth quilting and the creative freedom I was given with this quilt. It just sings!! | No | |
176 |
I Love Feathers Won Best Trapunto Award $400 | Jana Menning QUILTS TO TREASURE 701 S. Stemmons #265 Lewisville, TX 75067 972-436-7022 janakay@earthlink.net |
Jana Menning | 81 x 96 | I made this for the Dallas show when I ran out of projects while on Christmas vacation in South Dakota. I wanted space for lots of free form feathers. | No |
177 |
Rows and Bows for Fall Won 3rd Best Machine Quilting $200 | Jana Menning QUILTS TO TREASURE 701 S. Stemmons #265 Lewisville, TX 75067 972-436-7022 janakay@earthlink.net |
Kara Schorstein | 87 x 92 | This quilt was designed for the spring quilt market using the new Moda fabrics. It was completely free form quilted. | No |
178 |
Chicken on the Road to Recovery Won a Teacher's Choice Award | Pat Mensinger 219 N. University #5 Spokane, WA 99206 509-891-7094 patnquilt@aol.com |
Pat Mensinger | 45 x 59 | I created this quilt to express my experiences & emotions associated with the recurrence of cancer within 2 years. The chicken depicts my reactions to cancer AGAIN, appointments with laboratories & doctors, surgery, awakenings and healing. Humor opened the door for recovery. Chicken pattern by Mary Lou Weidman - Spokane, WA. | No |
179 |
Stars in the Night Sky | Jenny Michael Finally Finished! 13355 McCulloch Av Saratoga, CA 95070 408-370-9344 FinallyFin@aol.com |
Jenny Michael | 83 x 83 | Made with “star blocks of the month” for my local quilt guild. It is an original design setting allowing for some great quilting spaces. It is the first large quilt I have quilted on my longarm for myself - one of the tops I bought the machine for!! | No |
180 |
Blue Mystery | Sue Miklos-Champion Red Caboose Quilting Co. 403 E. Preston Glen Rd Gunter, TX 75058 903-433-9303 |
Sue Miklos-Champion | 85 x 90 | This is a mystery class quilt that I ended changing my sashing fabric on after I attended the class. Being a novice long arm quilter, this was an experiment. | No |
| 181 No Show | Sue’s Sampler | Sue Miklos-Champion Red Caboose Quilting Co. 403 E. Preston Glen Rd Gunter, TX 75058 903-433-9303 |
Sue Miklos-Champion | 78 x 54 | This top was made when I took a beginners class as a techniques refresher. The quilting is novice grade as I’m awaiting delivery of my machine after the Showcase! | No |
182 |
Triangle Madness | Gail Miller A Piece in Time 4013 Harper Ave Norton, OH 44203 330-825-8651 |
Gail Miller | 88 x 103 | 100% cotton fabrics on heirloom batting. All triangles are “trimmings” from mitered binding strips. These triangles were just “too big” to throw away!! | No |
183 |
My House in Quincy | Joyce Morton QUILT STITCHIN’ 2620 Midlan Dr Quincy, IL 62301 217-228-9172 jmorton@bel.net |
Joyce Morton | 83 x 100 | No | |
184 |
Frogger | Susan Moseley Rose of Sharon 4032 Troy Hwy Montgomery, AL 36116 334-281-9775 rosebud2@bellsouth.net |
Sharon Wilson | 57 x 57 | This quilt was inspired by the sashing fabric. Sharon appliqued the frogs in nine days. Susan was determined to quilt each block differently. Notice the snakes quilted in the sashing and on borders. We displayed this top last year at the showcase in Missouri and used some of the suggestions for quilting. | No |
185 |
Stars Across America | Maureen Mueller A Stitch in Time 116 W. Illinois New Berlin, IL 62670 214-488-7409 |
Sally Mueller | 68 x 98 | This quilt came from the Quilt in a Day Series by Eleanor Burns. Many of the quilting designs came from “Easy Traditional Quilting” by Lora Rocke. | No |
186 |
Gone Fishin’ | Maureen Mueller A Stitch in Time 116 W. Illinois New Berlin, IL 62670 214-488-7409 |
Maureen Mueller | 36 x 38 | This quilt was inspired by a picture taken at a local quilt show. It was made for my husband’s birthday and was my first custom quilt. | No |
187 |
Burgoyne Surrounded | Linda Newsom Quilted with Care 943 Truro Ln Crofton, MD 21114 410-721-9474 newsom@erols.com |
Gayle Kirchmar | 95 x 95 | Gayle designed the rose patterns herself. The designs are not a continuous line. The batting is Simplicity Lite & the tread is A & E Poly Core. | No |
188 |
Renaissance Beauty | Linda Newsom Quilted with Care 943 Truro Ln Crofton, MD 21114 410-721-9474 newsom@erols.com |
Marcia Gratton |
95 x 77 | Marcia asked me to quilt the border in “gold” thread, which is a phobia with me! I am a thread matcher and was very nervous about using a contrasting color. It turned out okay. | No |
189 |
Blocks | Julie Nodine Julie’s Quilting Services 346 Beresford Ave Redwood City, CA 94061 650-363-2528 |
Julie Nodine | 99 x 101 | The quilt was made for a winemaker who loves red and blue (notice the label). I used cotton thread and freeform quilting with a blue painters tape guide for “straight” lines on the blocks. Hobbs charcoal batt. | No |
190 |
Doubled Irish Feather | Kathy Olson Treasured Threads 616 Aqua Vista Dr Granbury, TX 76049 817-573-6793 pholson@itexas.net |
Janet Weeks | 40 x 60 | Another great style of quilt top for various feather designs. Other continuous designs also work well in the plain areas. | No |
191 |
Chesapeake Star | Kathy Olson Treasured Threads 616 Aqua Vista Dr Granbury, TX 76049 817-573-6793 pholson@itexas.net |
Kathy Olson | 86 x 86 | Lone stars are one of my favorite to both piece and quilt. This pattern allows for feathers in the quilting. | No |
192 |
Blue Arctic | Kathy Olson Treasured Threads 616 Aqua Vista Dr Granbury, TX 76049 817-573-6793 pholson@itexas.net |
Martha Manuel | 88 x 99 | Wonderfully simple pattern that can be quilted many ways. I chose to keep it simple and let her piecing show. | No |
193 |
Compass Rose | Kathy Olson Treasured Threads 616 Aqua Vista Dr Granbury, TX 76049 817-573-6793 pholson@itexas.net |
Kathy Olson | 83 x 83 | The first Mariner’s compass quilt I made. I think it shows diagonals are quite possible on a longarm machine. My very favorite quilt - at the moment. | No |
194 |
Timeless Treasure | Darlene Orschek Quilt Farm 8504 Gulf Rd North East, PA 814-725-FARM (3276) qfarm@erie.net |
Darlene Orschek | 82 x 106 | I saw this quilt in the American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine. Great way to use scraps. Quilter’s Dream Cotton; AA thread; cross-hatched. | No |
195 |
Untitled Beauty | Lyla Pack Rainbow Quilting 841 Concord Dr Bartlesville, OK 74006 918-335-2030 rainbowq@ionet.net |
Linda Matthews-Gowan | 53 x 53 | Cross hatched, meander, outline. 3.3 oz poly batting. Outside border “out for a stroll” by Hari Walner. Inside border is ripple design by Marcia Stevens. | No |
196 |
Stack & Whack | Lyla Pack Rainbow Quilting 841 Concord Dr Bartlesville, OK 74006 918-335-2030 rainbowq@ionet.net |
Leanna McKenney | 72 x 94 | I used a modified version of Linda Taylor’s loop/stars with flowers, leaves, & butterflies instead of the stars. Also used patterns from Marcia Steven’s “Fantasy Flora Collection.” 3.3 oz poly batting. | No |
197 |
Sew it Goes | Ruthann Parrish Quilting by Ruthann 9341 Shady Ln Kingston, IL 60145 815-784-5927 ruthannp@thenet.com |
Ruthann Parrish | 75 x 93 | A mystery quilt pattern by Debbie Caffrey. I added the checker board border and used Quilters Dream cotton batting. This is my first attempt at metallic thread. I used a pattern for the borders and the wreath and free style for the rest. | No |
198 |
Stitches in Time | Ruthann Parrish Quilting by Ruthann 9341 Shady Ln Kingston, IL 60145 815-784-5927 ruthannp@thenet.com |
Ruthann Parrish | 77 x 96 | A mystery quilt pattern by Debbie Caffrey. I used a 5.0 poly batt for loft and quilted a free hand feather in border. The stars were stippled and outlined an a wavy line. | No |
199 |
New Years Party | Carol Perkins Threads Galore 11 Pleasant St. POB 219 Rangeley, ME 04970 207-864-5752 dperk@rangeley.org |
Dan Perkins | 79 x 93 | Pieced on New Years Eve & day 1998/99 from Thimbleberries pattern. Quilting designs by Keryn Emmerson. Used Hobbs Heirloom batting. | No |
200 |
Road to Rangeley | Carol Perkins Threads Galore 11 Pleasant St. POB 219 Rangeley, ME 04970 207-864-5752 dperk@rangeley.org |
Dan Perkins | 85 x 98 | Adapted from a pattern called Road to St. Louis. Trees and moose are what you see on the road to Rangeley. Tree quilting pattern by Marcia Steven’s; my own moose pattern made from moose on the fabric. | No |
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