Quilt Fiesta 2025 – Special Awards

Best in Show #604 Civil War Bride Dureen Berg	Best Machine Quilting-Hand Guided #709 Tucson Five-O Athena Taylor
NACQJ Judge’s Special Merit #1007 Western Star Patsy Heacox	Best Machine Quilting – Digitized #247 Piece of Cake Kathie Gilbert
Judge’s Choice #1046 Retro Living Tami Graeber	Best Piecing #528 Go Ask Alice Kathi Shunn
Best Use of Color #547 Burst in the Dark Malcolm Neifeld	Best Hand Applique’ #611 Petals in the Wind Marilyn Sohn
Best Hand Quilting #609 The Country Love Quilt Janet Stevenson	Best Machine Applique’ #407 Color Playing with Circles Janet Rupp

Quilt Fiesta 2025 – Category Awards

200 – Small-One Person, Primarily Pieced, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #211 – “Wild and Free” – Kathy Kutansky
2^nd – #212 – “A Christmas Village” – Julie Hallquist
3^rd – #204 – “Aurora” – Peg Clampet
Honorable Mention – #208 – “Forest to Table” – Joyce Harrison

200 – Medium-One Person, Primarily Pieced, Machine Quilted

1^st – #229 – “Happiness”- Sandra Schuster
2^nd – #225– “Oak Moth” – Michele Cummings
3^rd – #220 – “FW Club Sampler” – Jeannie Clegg
HM – #232 – “Southwest Churndash” – Athena Taylor

200 – Large – One Person, Primarily Pieced, Machine Quilted

1^st – #246 – “Cabin By the Lake” – Luanne Wood
2^nd – #241– “Spider Pumpkin” – Penny Boese
3^rd – #247– “A Piece of Cake” – Kathie Gilbert
HM – #248 – “Psychedelic Carpenter Square” – Penny Boese

300 – One Person, Primarily Appliqued, Hand Quilted

1^st – #301 – “Where’s the Meat” – Gloria Magee
2^nd – #302 – “Lucy Makes a Quilt” – Helen Frost
3^rd – #304 – “90^th Birthday Quilt” – Robin Walton

400 – One Person, Primarily Appliqued, Machine Quilted

1^st – #408 – “Remembering Nancy” – Tami Graeber
2^nd – #407– “Color Playing With Circles” – Janet Rupp
3^rd – #412 – “Sister Cities” – Barbara Lambrecht
HM – #404 – “Lazy Boy” – Lynne Saul
HM – #411 – “Alaskan Vacation” – Athena Taylor

500 Small – Two Persons, Primarily Pieced, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #508 – “Little Itty Bitties from Paper Pieced Modern” – Debbie Kasper
2^nd – #515 – “Southwest Windmill” – Doreen Diaz
3^rd – #513 – “Ancient and Modern Petroglyphs – Mary Johns
HM – #505 – “True Christmas” – Carol Carpenter
HM – #510 – “In the Woods” – Karen Porter
HM – #514 – “Coral Reef – Wall” – Rosie Lysinger

500 Medium – Two Persons, Primarily Pieced, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #528 – “Go Ask Alice” – Kathi Shunn
2^nd – #521 – “Partial Eclipse Above the Meadow” – Judy Locke
3^rd – #526 – “Happy Citrus Wonder” – Yvonne M Flores
HM – #523 – “A Gust of Wind” – Lucy Thurston
HM – #527– “Leo” – Lynne Saul
HM – #530 – “Night Sky” – Kris Neifeld
HM – #533 – “Double Rainbow” – Susie Weaver

500 Large – Two Persons, Primarily Pieced, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #542 – “The Heart of Rock and Roll” – Joyce Holley
2^nd – #547– “Burst in the Dark” – Malcolm Neifeld
3^rd – #548 – “Autumn Splendor” – Joyce Holley
HM – #551 – “Blue Bayou” – JoAnn Hinchliffe
HM – # 553 – “Southwest Star” – Kimberly Zody

600 – Two Persons, Primarily Appliqued, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #604 – “Civil War Bride” – Dureen Berg
2^nd – #611 – “Petals in the Wind” – Marilyn Sohn
3^rd – #606 – “Sonoran Baltimore” – Judy Tenen
HM – #601 – “Patchwork Elephant” – Mare Stewart-Cohen
HM – #607– “Summer’s Night and Day” – Caroline Ellermann
HM – #608 – “Echoes of the Past” – Kay Walen

700 – Group (3 or more), Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #709 – “Tucson Five-O” – Tucson Quilters Guild
2^nd – #703 – “Out of the Embers” – Susan Allen, Coleen Babcock, Susan Brown, Terry Gallegos, Cassie Gribble, Elaine Romanelli, Susan Well, Suzanne Irving
3^rd – #701 – “Our Swedish Heritage” – Caroline Ellermann, Judy Redding, Mary Huff
HM – #706 – “By the Sea” – Sharp Women Bee

801 – Miniature, Hand or Machine Quilted

1^st – #801 – “Seastar” – Terry Gallegos
2^nd – #805– “No, It is Not Paper Pieced” – Jean Biddick
3^rd – #802– “Festive Reflections” – Terry Gallegos

900 – Modern

1^st – #904 – “Chaos and Hope” – Michele Vaughn
2^nd – #905 – “Prism at Dusk” – Judy Locke
3^rd – #901– “Swirling Around” – Mary Anne Strauss

1000 – Art – Portrait (People and Animals)

1^st – #1007 – “Western Stars” – Patsy Heacox
2^nd – #1005 – ”Majestic” – Mary Anne Strauss
3^rd – #1003 – “Graced in Crochet” – Millie Burgheimer
HM – #1001 – “Pollination by Echolocation” – Peg Clampet
HM – #1002 – “The Cotton Field” – Debra Kaweske
HM – #1004 – “The Elvis Dress” – Katherine Verbeke
HM – #1006 – “Low Tide” – Millie Burgheimer
HM – #1008 – “4 Little Cowpokes” – Lisa Fryxell

1000 – Art – Scenic

1^st – #1024 – “Rusty Bridge-One February Morning” – Janet Pugh
2^nd – #1026 – “Barnyard” – Kathy Adams
3^rd – #1021 – “Confluence” – Jolene Ficklin
HM – #1022 – “After the Bighorn” – Stephanie Nordlin

1000 – Art – Whimsy/Abstract

1^st – #1046 – “Retro Living” – Tami Graeber
2^nd – #1044 – “A Wildfire Breathing Dragon” – Julie Halliquist
3^rd – #1042 – “Embellished ‘Jamerican’ ” – Susie Voss

1100 – Other

1^st – #1103– “Lace Cabins” – Kay Walen
2^nd – #1101 – “Gilded Cathedral” – Karen G Fisher
3^rd – #1102 – “Intermingled Feathers” – Kathie Gilbert

Quilt Fiesta 2025 – Viewer’s Choice

1^st – #1046 – “Retro Living” – Tami Graeber
2^nd – #2009 – “The Doxie Race-Who Let the Dogs Out?” – Lisa Fryxell
3^rd – #547 – “Burst in the Dark” – Malcom Neifeld
HM – #607 – “Summer’s Night and Day” – Caroline Ellerman

Quilt Fiesta 2025 – Director’s Choice

#3003 – “Queen of the Night” – Trish Hastings-Sargent