Exhibition Year Archives

Sunflower Wallhanging

Ruth Stegmeyer

Machine pieced and machine quilted. Hand dyed fabric by Frieda Anderson. The design elements were fused together, then cut out. The sunflower wall hanging was started in a 2004 Frieda Anderson workshop. I finally competed it in 2009. The piece is machine quilted.

Crown of Thorns quilt

Ruth Stegmeyer

Hand and machine pieced; hand and machine quilted. The Crown of Thorns quilt was hand pieced between 1993 and 1995. I started hand quilting this year, finishing in August.

Herons

Tracy McCabe Stewart

Hand dyed silks and cottons, commercial cottons, machine quilted. I have always had a fascination with herons. This quilt is the first in a series exploring their images.

2008 Quilt-In Friendship Quilt

Fay Stickler

Exchange of signatures and block squares machine sewn; longarm quilted by Sue DiVarco. A great reminder of my first Quilt-In. I used the exchange blocks to enhance the signatures. Then used red to set on-point each signature.

Butterfly Girl

Fay Stickler

“Fussycut” girl squares. Machine pieced and machine quilted. I spent so much time and energy “fussy cutting” the girl squares that when it came time to quilt,

Copper Leaf

Kathleen V. Stuart

Fused fabics for background. Leaf was made by longarm quilting on dissolve fusible with copper metallic thread. I’m trying to step out of my box and try my hand at art quilting. I golf and saw a leaf like this on the course. I went home and decided to see if I could “quilt” one.

Shabby Chic

Kathleen V. Stuart

Wholecloth on silk dupioni quilted with metallic thread and wool batting. I love wholecloth quilts and silk fabric, so this is an example of how to have both! I’m still working out the problems of working with silk and metallic. This quilt won a teacher’s award at MQS in Kansas City, 2009.