Bethany Reynolds

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AQS Stack-n-Whack®
Contest Winners

Here are some of the quilts from the American Quilter's Society 2002 Quilt Exposition in Nashville, TN. These were entries in the special Stack-n-Whack division. There were 39 entries juried into the show. I'll add more pictures if I can obtain permission from the quilters. Please contact me if you had a quilt in the exhibit! One quilt not pictured is the Best of Show quilt for the division, "Going Beyond," by Meta MacLean of Quebec, Canada. Meta received a $5000 cash award.

full view (68KB)	Radiant Stars Joan C. Carroll, Central Square, NY 1st Place - $1500 award Joan used Stack-n-Whack techniques to cut the octagonal centers and the point of the feathered stars, and paper pieced the star "feathers". This quilt has exquisite hand quilting!
Spiritual Awakening Nancy Baker, Dekalb, IL 2nd Place - $1000 award Nancy's striking original design represents the six weeks of Lent. It is machine pieced and quilted.	full view (84 KB)
full view (88 KB)	Road to Riches Debra D. Geissler, Littleton, CO 3rd Place- $750 award Debra designed a paper pieced border to complement the Wheel of Fortune block. This was Debra's first entry in a national contest!

Butterfly Stars Maureen A. Diesslin, Loveland, OH Maureen combined eight-pointed stars with squares and four point stars to create a unique setting.	full view (56 KB)
full view (76 KB)	Oriental Stars Heather Purcell, St. George, UT, and Diane Thomas, Columbia Falls, MT Heather used the Pinwheel Plus block for this dramatic quilt. Diane's long arm quilting in metallic gold thread added richness to the design.
CoCo Cay: Bahamas Dreaming Deb Richardson, Ewing, KY Deb's tropical fish swim lazily through a sea of Stack-n-Whack hexagons and cool caribbean triangles.	full view (92 K)

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