FEATS OF WORKMANSHIP AT THE AMERICAN QUILT SOCIETY SHOW IN PADUCAH, KY (Cheri)

The American Quilt Society shows attract the highest-quality quilt artists from the United States and around the world.

This quilt, "My Lucky Stars," by Jill, Linda, and & Richard McKinney, won third place in the Group Quilts category.  The color selections made it a standout for me.

I personally like working with what I call "parrot colors," and here is another in that category:

This quilt isn't actually a "traditional" quilt:

It's antecedents were, though.  Consider the similarities between it and a vintage Amish quilt:

In this show the miniature quilts were mounted behind glass, so I couldn't get full pictures.  To get an idea of the workmanship, consider that each pinwheel block in this portion of a quilt was about 1.5" square.

Each of the strips in this quilt detail was probably 1/8" wide,

and here is the entire quilt:

(And I just now realized that the same woman made both of those quilts!)

Finally, here is a detail of one that I thought should have won a major prize:

Here are another detail, the entire quilt, and the artist's attribution:

How could that not win a prize??  (Again, my apologies for the skewed photos, caused by the way the quilts were hung, which prevented squared-off shots.)