All I can say is wow! QuiltCon is as awesome as I thought it would be and more. The quilts, the friendly atmosphere, the lectures, classes and more are a dream come true. The show was so well organized that you could tell immediately which quilts were competing in each category. The ribbons are the cutest and most creative I’ve ever seen!
You can see pictures the rest of the quilts in Part 2 and Part 3.
Cute QuiltCon Ribbons
So here they are – the best modern quilts. I tried to get pictures of all the ribbon winners so it will take me a couple of days to post them all. Enjoy the show! (See part 2 here.)
Best in Show – Double Edged Love by Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Quilted by Lisa Sipes, New York, New York
Best Machine Quilting – The Local Quilt by Carolyn Friedlander
Lake Wales, Florida
Judges Choice – Adrift by Tina Michalik
Quilted by Susan Spencer, Santa Cruz, California
Quilting Excellence – Sing It Out Loud! by Karen Anderson-Abraham
Santa Barbara, California
Applique Large, 1st Place – Flying Saucer by Lisa Alexakis
Culver City, California
Applique Large, 2nd Place – Rainbow Rocks by Kathleen Baden
Kernersville, North Carolina
Applique Large, 3rd Place – Retro Modern Shapes
By Heather Davidson, Portland, Oregon
Applique Small, 1st Place – Self Study #1 by Chawne Kimber
Easton, Pennsylvania
Applique, Small Honorable Mention – Needless by Laura Bisagna
Winchester, California
Dear Stella Challenge, 1st Place – Charm Squares Baby Quilt
By Melody Baker, Lenexa, Kansas
Dear Stella Challenge, 2nd Place – Not Quite a Shadow by Susan Shore
Quilted by Jessica Sloan, Austin, Texas
Dear Stella Challenge, 3rd Place – A Modern Day Mystery by Lisa Holk
Overland Park, Kansas
Group or Bee Quilt, 1st Place – Off the B.O.W.
Compiled and Quilted by Krista Fleckenstein, blocks by members of the Bee Liberated quilt group
Group or Bee Quilt, 2nd Place – Kelsey’s Crosses
Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild, Missouri
Group or Bee Quilt, 3rd Place – Confetti Amongst Friends
St. Louis Modern Quilt Guild, Missouri
And this is just the start! I can’t wait for more quilting goodness tomorrow!
Christa Quilts 
Christa,
I have a favor to ask. Could you drop me an email. jgeringirre at yahoo dot com. Thanks!
Fantastic quilts. Time to get out of my box and have some fun! Very inspirational!
Hi Christa, thank you so much for posting the quilts! I wish I could have met you there.
I just wanted to clarify something on my bee quilt (Off the B.O.W.). It was compiled by me, but made in a group called Bee Liberated that celebrated quilt designs by Gwen Marston. It wasn’t from the Anchorage Guild. If you wouldn’t mind making that change, I’d appreciate it! I’d love for the bee members to get the credit. 🙂
Thanks for the clarification, Krista (great name!!) I will make those changes now.
Great pictures of great quilts. Thanks Christa.
You’re welcome – thanks for stopping by!
Christa,
Would it be okay to show your photos as a slide show at a guild meeting? Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild has a program planned in June focussed on the Modern Quilt movement.
Thanks,
Linda Warren
VP Programs
HAVQG
Hi Linda,
Yes, you can share my pictures as long as you give credit to me for the photography 🙂 You can mention my store ChristaQuilts.com or link to my blog ChristaQuilts.wordpress.com. Thanks!
Thanks so much for putting in all the hard work to post ALL these amazing quilts!!! Wish I would have been able to meet you there. Maybe next time!!!
Here’s to more Modern Quilting events in the future!
Thanks for sharing all the quilts! I’m over the moon! Lot’s of beauties in this show!
Thank you for posting the pictures. I would have loved to go as a member of the South Florida Modern Quilt guild. It was nice to be able to see all of the modern talent!
Thank you thank you! For posting the pics! I read the winners post on MQG but so glad to see the pics since I couldn’t go! Amazing work! Congrats to all the winners!!
Ok. I am hard pressed to pick a favourite here. SUCH amazing work!
Thanks for posting these!
Thank you for posting. We can live the show vicariously thru your camera lens. Wish I was there!!!
very neat quilts – love seeing the winners
Fabulous to see the winning quilts – thanks so much. Congrats to everyone – especially our very own MQG pres Tina. Keep them coming.
oh I’m so glad you posted these – just awesome, especially for those of us who couldn’t attend. I shared on A Quilter’s Table fb page – ok?
Sure Debbie – that’s great!
Can I post your pic of the ribbons on a blog post linking over to this post? I think my readers would love seeing these quilts! Can’t wait for the next batch!
Yes, please do! That’s why I did this – so everyone could see and share 🙂 I will show the rest of them tomorrow.
Hmm, was at QuiltCon yesterday and didn’t see some of these….wonder where they were.
Angela, some of them were a little tricky to find and I didn’t see all of the ribbons right away, so I walked the aisles a couple of times to be thorough. Even so, there’s one I missed that I will have to go back and take a picture of. 🙂 The names of all the winners are posted on the MGQ blog so that was helpful.
Hi there! Thank you so much for posting all of these wonderful pictures!
Would you mind me borrowing your photo of Double Edged Love to post to my Facebook page? I’ve gotten several requests from people wanting to see closer shots so that they can see my quilting.
Unfortunately I lost all of my pictures of EVERY quilt I have quilted when my phone and computer both crashed on the same day. So I have none to share! And I couldn’t make it to QuiltCon. 😦
Anyway, let me know, and I hope you’re having a blast!
Absolutely Lisa! Your work is amazing! I am so sorry to hear that you lost your pictures. That must have been devastating. You can use the picture I have on this post and then I will take more pictures tomorrow at the show and email them to you personally.
Thank you all for your kind comments. The workmanship at this show in amazing!
Those quilts are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
They are WOW!! Thanks for taking us along with you to the show. :^D
Thank you for this! I’ve been WAITING for someone to post some of these!!! 🙂
Thanks Christa. Great to see a fascinating array of ideas.
Thanks Christa, I love that you shared with us that couldn’t go. It’s like being there for me. “Self-Studay” is awesome.
Thank you for posting these! I’ve been looking for winners’ info
Thanks for the eye candy! How did your quilt do? Any news on that?
Thanks Evelyn! While my quilt didn’t win a ribbon (I didn’t expect it to – I was just thrilled to see it hang), everyone who had a quilt in the show got a cute participation button that looked like a mini version of the ribbons – so that was pretty cool, too!
One more thank you for sharing your photos from the show … I moved from Austin 8 months ago and this week is the first time I’ve wished I was still living there 🙂
Oh, my! What can I say! Great picture taking and WOW and grats to all the quilters out there! Dream a Little Dream … wow! Thanks for sharing these. Darn, I wish I had been younger when I started this obsession!! So many quilts! So Little Time!
Wow! You are my official photo journalist for QuiltCon. Thanks!! and hope you have loads of fun!
Thanks for posting these photos. Would you mind correcting the label on first place applique–small? Self Study #1…
Absolutely – thanks for catching that! It’s been corrected now 🙂
Thank you for shareing these! An amazing amount of awesomeness on display!
Wow! I am inspired! 🙂
Thanks for sharing these.
It was fun to watch these quilts. Thank you, Christa!
Thanks so much for sharing! So bummed to be missing all the fun! Have a great time!
Krista
Thank you for the photos. I have been sew curious to see the quilts. Such a variety and the colors are awesome! Can’t wait for more…! Judie
Thank you for posting all of these! LOVE the pics!!! Can’t wait to see more. Have fun!!!