The Pacific Northwest's premier quilt & fiber art festival, featuring art from across the US and around
the world, workshops, classes, presenting artists, vendors, and more!

NOTICE: Beginning in 2024, the Museum will no longer accept entries that the artist has paid to have professionally quilted. The quilting is a core element of the artist’s design and skill and, as such, should be performed by the artist or, if a group entry, by at least one of the artists. 

October 4-6, 2024
Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA

2023 Winners

Best of Show
and 1st Place in Fiber Arts - Handwoven category

Spinners II by Gabriela Nirino, Seattle, WA
The image of this piece belong to a textile worker from the 40's.
It is about being proud of a job well done and about a time when that meant something. In the original photo she is working with jute. The "alpargata" is a traditional shoe, made in cotton canvas with a jute sole. I replaced the jute with wool, an emblematic raw material. It is blue, the color of our flag. The background is an old traditional motif in textiles made by hand by women on family looms.

Hand woven on computer-controlled Jacquard loom.


CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS!

Best Hand Quilting - For the Love of Squircles, Marla Varner
Best Machine Quilting - Midnight Fantasy #10, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Best Surface Embellishment-Quilt - Bugs in the Machine Redux, JaNita Clairmont
Best Original Design - Quilt - Square Dance, Debbie Shank Miller
Best Surface Embellishment - Fiber Art/Wearables - Lady Oak, Dana Chapman
Best Original Design - Fiber Art/Wearables - Sir Thomas Overbury and Lady Essex Discover Palm Springs, Elly Smith
Judge's Choice - Brandy Maslowski - Woven in Tradition, Zara Zannettino
Judge's Choice - David Owen Hastings - Dancing Jellies, Mimi Ghauri-Young
Judge's Choice - Gail Harker - Afraid So, Bridget Daly
Judge's Choice - Echo Mae - Pestilence, Morgan Marzulli, Kristen McDevitt, Will Cramer
Peoples' Choice - Quilts - Views, Leanne Stewart
Peoples' Choice - Fiber Art/Wearables - Medieval Fashionista, Dana Chapman

Quilt - Abstract
1st   Midnight Fantasy #10, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
2nd  On Ice, Debbie Watkins
3rd  Cloud Forrest, Melody Crust

Quilt - Applique
1st   Truffle Duffle, Lisa Mortell
2nd  Nature's Beauty, Janice Tolzman
3rd  Bird Dance, Lisa Mortell

Quilt - Modern Large
1st   Square Dance, Debbie Shank Miller
2nd  Tiny Bubbles, Marla Varner
3rd   One in Every Four, Carolina Oneto

Quilt - Modern Small
1st   The Welcome Rain, Kyungha Oh
2nd  Pinball Wizard, Chris berry
3rd  A Dancing Brick, Kyungha Oh

Quilt - Other
1st   Compromise, Sonia Grasvik
2nd  Urban Renewal, Sonia Grasvik
3rd  Bugs in the Machine Redux, JaNita Clairmont

Quilt - Pictorial Large
1st   The Memories That Remain, Lynn Czaban
2nd  What Happened to the Neighborhood?,  Mimi Ghauri-Young
3rd  Who's on First, Vaughn St., Portland, OR,  Judith Phelps

Quilt - Pictorial Small
1st   Untitled, Lynn Czaban
2nd  Sunset at Camel Rock, Angie Tustison
3rd  Woven in Tradition, Zara Zannettino

Quilt - Pieced
1st   Alaskan Sunset, Catheryn Scott
2nd  Quilt in a Decade, Dionne Hersh
3rd   Looking Up, Renee Miles

Quilt - Traditional
1st   Chained Stars, Jane M. Buys
2nd  Sawblade and Bowties, Jane M. Buys
3rd   1797 Revisited in 1897,  Jane M. Buys

Fiber Art - Felt
1st   Berry Parfait, Fine Gelfand
2nd  Kraken, Diane Lundberg

Fiber Art - Mixed Media
1st   Parallel, Cynthia Martinez
2nd  Pondering The Mysteries, Laura Elmore
3rd  The Language of Trees, Ruth Lane

Fiber Art - Needlework
1st   Falling and Failing, Elly Smith
2nd  Brian the Bee, Teresa Hall 
3rd   Wild Fire, Linda Riesterer

Fiber Art - Other
1st   Covid Creation I, James Shanower
2nd  Uncle Paul's World, Lynne Kirsten
3rd  Catch You Later, Bridget Daly

Fiber Art - Sculpture/3D
1st   The Book of Edgar, Ruth Lane
2nd  Top Secret Garden, Jeri Oswalt
3rd  Bamboo Forest Kimono,  Veronica Lund

Fiber Art - Woven
1st   Spinners II, Gabriela Nirino
2nd  Dreaming That the Land Flourishes III, Gabriela Nirino

Wearable Art - Accessory
1st   Celebration Shoes, Jeri Oswalt

Wearable Art - Garment
1st   Surf's Up, Fine Gelfand
2nd  Medieval Fashionista, Dana Chapman
3rd   Brick House,  Patti Barker

SURVEY DRAWING WINNERS!

1st Place: Pam Perry
Kaffe Model Bernina Sewing Machine donated by Quilting Mayhem



2nd Place:  Carolyn Fouch
1919 Vintage Singer 66 Sewing Machine (Converted Treadle) donated by Kathy Prunty


Congratulations!

Thank you
to this year's Friends of the Festival!

Nancy Anders
Glenys Baker
​Wendy Bannister
Judi Bergsagel
Drew Betz
Jill Boone
Dana F. Bowne
Mary Jo Brentari
Felecia Briscoe
Diane Brosten
Jacque Chase
Nancy Chong
June Cook
Patricia Dever
Linda Devereaux
Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Catherine Erickson
Marie Gallagher
Sonia Grasvik
David Owen Hastings
Sandy Hatfield
Carolyn Higgins
Sydney Hole
Lisa Jenni
Lane Johnson
Clare Kapitan
Cathy Kessel

Katherine Knapp
Candace Kramer
Ann Lindquist
Matt Macomber
Debra Shank Miller
Mr. SewDandy
Mary Ann Musgrove
Joy Neal
Northwest Yarns & Mercantile
Vera Nunnally
Joseph Pepia
Cora Rolfe
Gale Schwarb
Gloria Shelton
Ako Shimozato
Marilyn Sollers
Patricia Stainbrook
Mary Stanton
Linda Storvik
Garnet Templin-Imel
Pat Thompson
Brenda Thorsen
Tesi Vaara
Sandi Vadset
Jane Washington
Linda Wilhoit
Nancy Wyatt

THANK YOU TO OUR 2023 SPONSORS AND DONORS

PLATINUM

LODGING TAX GRANT

GOLD

SILVER

 Sidney McHarg
In memory of Judy McHarg

Pat & Sam Smith

BRONZE

Marlene & Greg Kleven

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