Pacific International Quilt Festival
honors the Best of the Best in quilting
from around the world.
With nearly 1,000 quilts and displays
this week has been
a visual overload.
In this World Competition
Venetian Menagerie
By Melissa Sobotka
won a 1st place ribbon
for
Best In Country, United States.
How does one select the Best
with so many outstanding entries?
Consider the honor in receiving such a ribbon!
A wonderland of imagination
and technique.
Melissa wrote
"Inspired by a photo I took of a display window in Venice.
The dramatic still life was a menagerie of masks,
art and oddities.
Raw edge fused applique constructed from
cotton batiks and enhanced
with Tsunkineko Inks.
Old Master art is transferred with computer printing."
I felt transported back in time
to unique, exotic cultures.
Amazing!
that sure is a very different looking quilt - I would think the judges have a hard choice to make - I often times think "art" quilts need to have a show that is totally just ART quilts as it is so different then bed quilts
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