• Awards Traditional Quilts
• Awards Contemporary Quilts
• Awards Other and Display of Youth Quilts
• Awards Art/Innovative Quilts
• Scenes at the Show
• Judge and Award Categories

Special Awards

Best of Show
Best Machine Quilting: Amateur

Pastoral Symphony
By Natalie Rockley

Just as the beauty of summer comes after a year's preparation through the seasons, this quilt was a year in the making (2013 Block of the Month for the Quilt Show).

Best Hand Workmanship
Best Embellishment

A Nest with a View
by Ann D'Hondt

This wall hanging is hand appliquéd and quilted using the Broderie Perse technique. The pattern designer, Jeanne Sullivan, has included it in her book Simply Successful Appliqué.

Best Machine Quilting: Professional

Nocturne in Batiks
by Sharon Johnson
Quilted by Brian Fackler

Using the simple "disappearing nine-patch" pattern and large 6-inch squares, my purpose was to show off the beauty of the fabric and allow the quilt to serve as a canvas for Brian Fackler's wonderful quilting.

Judge's Choice

Tulips All Around
by Jacqlyn McKenzie

This whole cloth quilt has taken me 10+ years to complete due to 2 wrist fractures and an out of state move, but I finally completed it in 2013.

Off the Wall Award
For a quilt with originality, personality, and thoughtfulness that will make the viewer smile or reflect

City Market
by Jo Gilman
Quilted by Sheridan Carter

This was a block of the month in 2013 at Asheville Cotton Company. It was so much fun every month to see what Robin Culbertson had designed for us.

Merit Award: Accurate Construction of Flange and Piped Binding

My Old Barn
by Hardy Chandler

This barn is an historic teasure on our property. I see it from my kitchen window every day and have always wished it had a quilt block. So now it does!

A Victorian Keepsake
by Melba Rilott

This original heirloom quilt depicts the life of the Rilott family marriage to the last grandchild born. Each "heartbeat" slept in the Appalachian cradle, adding another chapter. Open the announcements from the three Rilott births to each "heartbeat" asleep in the cradle. Embellishments and laces from foreigh travels and mom's tatting.