QuiltCon 2025 Winners Gallery

Best in Show 2025

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Dignity

64″ x 77″

By Veruschka Zarate

Loma Linda, California, United States

MQG Award of Excellence

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Clamshell Jamboree
43″ x 58″
By Michelle Bartholomew
Leavenworth, Washington, United States

Best Original Modern Design

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Poppy Quilt
69″ x 67″
By Audrey Esarey
Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Best Machine Quilting

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Raspberry Roulette
47″ x 48″
By Audrey Esarey
Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Best Hand Quilting

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YES MORE PLEASE!
41” x 45”
By Heidi Parkes
Additional Contributor: Zak Foster
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

MQG Breakthrough Award

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I may be Square but not Fuddy-Duddy
68″ x 68″
By Jackie Pang
Campbell, California, United States

People’s Choice

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Jordan Year (Quilt of Golden Delights)
76″ x 76″
By Laura Hartrich
Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Juried Category Awards

American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge

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1st Place: Light Me Up
48″ x 48″
By Lindsey Berres
Woodinville, Washington, United States

2nd Place: Square Bloom
48″ x 48″
By Jo Wollschlaeger
Portland, Oregon, United States

3rd Place: Neural Overlap
60″ x 44″
By Jeanne Eileen Garcia
Aurora, Colorado, United States

Windham Ruby+Bee Fabric Challenge

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1st Place: Reverb
46″ x 46″
By Michaela Romesburg
San Francisco, California, United States

2nd Place: Cheshire
50″ x 60″
By Steph Skardal
Dublin, Ohio, United States

3rd Place: Smokejumper
50″ x 69″
By Lynne Hanson
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Appliqué

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1st Place: Fugue
52″ x 52″
By Lucy Engels
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

2nd Place: Oasis
36″ x 41″
By Cassandra Beaver
Urbana, Ohio, United States

3rd Place: All That Follows
55″ x 55″
By Sara Brown
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Group or Bee Quilts

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1st Place: NYC Fire Escapes
65″ x 56″
By Petra Kolkhof
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Contributors: Alexandra Pilz, Andrea Noll, Clara Stoikow, Claudia Rombouts, Eva Wirth, Mara Herzog

2nd Place: 5 New Friends
57″ x 61″
By Emilie Trahan
Joliette, Quebec, Canada

Contributors: Annick Bécotte, Lucie Bélanger, Andréane Giroux, Anne Lussier

3rd Place: Paloma
70″ x 88″
By Hillary London
New Britain, Connecticut, United States

Contributors: Charlotte Noll, Lolo Mon, Catherine Wilson, Nancy Powell, Debby Schindall, Judy Shelton, Linda Gueli

Handwork

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1st Place: Arches
54″ x 45″
By Julie Reuben
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

2nd Place: Mimi, Mimi, Mimi
57″ x 57″
By Heidi Parkes
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

3rd Place: Jordan Year (Quilt of Golden Delights)
76″ x 76″
By Laura Hartrich
Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Improvisation

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1st Place: Out of the Blue
82″ x 89″
By Emilie Trahan
Joliette, Quebec, Canada

2nd Place: So Many Small Things
63″ x 62″
By Heidi Parkes
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

3rd Place: Composition 4
84″ x 91″
By Laurie Paquin
Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada

Minimalist Design

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1st Place: Suspend
86″ x 84″
By Irene Roderick
Austin, Texas, United States

2nd Place: Passage no. 7
69″ x 68″
By Carson Converse
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States

3rd Place: Goldie
65″ x 80″
By Danielle Stanfill
Pahoa, Hawaii, United States

Modern Traditionalism

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1st Place: The Pointy Beast
62″ x 62″
By Susan Braverman
San Antonio, Texas, United States

2nd Place: Circle Play
59″ x 59″
By Jennifer Candon
Harvard, Massachusetts, United States

3rd Place: 100 Days of Apple Cores
52″ x 61″
By Cassandra Beaver
Urbana, Ohio, United States

Piecing

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1st Place: Orange Blast
76″ x 82″
By Emilie Trahan
Joliette, Quebec, Canada

2nd Place: Electric Slide
50″ x 68″
By Steph Skardal
Dublin, Ohio, United States

3rd Place: Exist Out Loud
56″ x 65″
By Allie McCathren
Tomball, Texas, United States

Small Quilts

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1st Place: Circles on a square grid
16″ x 32″
By Liz Kuny
Morristown, New Jersey, United States

2nd Place: Finding Balance
15″ x 15″
By Ann Marston
West Orange, New Jersey, United States

3rd Place: Wildflowers
12″ x 28″
By Katie Larson
Longmont, Colorado, United States

Use of Negative Space

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1st Place: Traffic Jam
61″ x 61″
By Susan Braverman
San Antonio, Texas, United States

2nd Place: Countercurrent
85″ x 75″
By Barbara Danzi
Los Angeles, California, United States

3rd Place: My Life in Pieces
62″ x 62″
By Erin Case
Vancouver, Washington, United States

Youth Quilts

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1st Place: Magnetized
72″ x 94″
By Lorelai Kuecker, age 15
Blackburn, Missouri, United States

2nd Place: Snapshot of Who I Am
24″ x 18″
By Ava Badstubner, age 14
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

3rd Place:Space Ocean
35″x41″
By Henry Church, age 9
Westerville, Ohio, United States

Judge’s Choice

Alison Glass

YES MORE PLEASE!
41” x 45”
By Heidi Parkes
Additional Contributor: Zak Foster
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Tammie Rubin

So Many Small Things
63″ x 62″
By Heidi Parkes
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Maritza Soto

Lifelines
59″ x 65″
By Emilie Trahan
Joliette, Quebec, Canada