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For Immediate Release
July 10, 2012
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Contact: Amy E. Milne, Executive Director
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"Home Is Where the Quilt Is" Contest Winners Announced
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Asheville, North Carolina, July 10, 2012
The winners of the "Home Is Where the Quilt Is" contest are now posted to the Alliance for American Quilts website. Margarita Korioth of Longwood, Florida was chosen as the Handi Quilter Grand Prize winner by judges Marianne Fons, Mark Lipinski and Paula Nadelstern. Korioth's quilt, titled "Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom," is a mixed media piece that features silkscreen, applique, metal leafing and embroidery over both cloth and recycled materials.
Korioth says in her artist's statement: "I want to demonstrate that cloth and recyclable materials can be used to create and interpret your thoughts. This is an enjoyable technique that I feel is just the beginning of a new and innovative way to do art. ...I gave it this title because I feel the happiest when I am at home quilting. Like the garden, my family blossoms when I nourish them with love."
 | | Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom By Margarita Korioth of Longwood, Florida |
Alliance members selected their favorites in the Members' Choice Awards:
First Place: Jamie Fingal for "Home Is Where Your Story Begins" (also Judge's Choice pick by Marianne Fons (below, left)
Second place: Joyce Hughes for "Home Is Always an Open Door" (below, middle)
Third place: Broadway Gentlemen's Quilting Auxiliary for "Open House" (below, right)
Honorable mention:
Patricia Hobbs for "The Piece Maker's Child"
JoAnn Hoffman for "When Life Gives You Scraps"
  
The Alliance received 119 entries from 34 states and 5 countries this year for it's annual contest. International entries came from Canada, Belgium, Germany and Poland and several entries are the result of a collaboration of two or more quilters.
Margarita Korioth, the Grand Prize winner will receive her choice of any Handi Quilter machine quilting system. This is the sixth year of the contest and the third year that Handi Quilter, one of the Alliance's business members, is sponsoring the top prize. Prizes for first through third and honorable mention prizes were donated by Alliance business members including Moda/United Notions, Simplicity Creative Group, EZ Quilting, Fons & Porter Love of Quilting, Interweave, The Electric Quilt Company, Attached Inc., and Dharma Trading Company.
All of the "Home" contest quilts were donated by their makers, and after a national exhibition tour, will be sold on eBay November 12 - December 10. The auction is one of the Alliance's most important annual fundraisers and provides crucial funds that support the operation of projects like Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories. Complete details on the contest and auction are on the Alliance's website here: "Home" contest entries will be documented by the Alliance in The Quilt Index,www.QuiltIndex.org. The Quilt Index website provides centralized access to more than 50,000 records, including quilts from state or regional documentation projects, museum and private collections. The Quilt Index, launched online in 2003, is a joint project of the Alliance, Michigan State University Museum, and MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University.
The Alliance for American Quilts, a nonprofit organization, supports and develops projects with institutional and grassroots partners to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. www.QuiltAlliance.org.
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