Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival

By Ellen Lindner on March 13, 2023 in Uncategorized

I really enjoyed my visit to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2023, held in Hampton, VA. The winning quilts were, of course, wonderful. You can see them all here.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Toroweap Overlook, by Sandra L Mollon. This won Best Wall Quilt. It’s amazing!

Age is Relative, by Sandy Curran, which won Viewers’ Choice. This is a fabulous depiction of Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel. I love the title and message, too.

Speaking of winners, MAQF doesn’t inform the winners about their prizes, so it was a big, DELIGHTFUL, surprise when I rounded a corner and realized that my quilt, Fragrant Canopy, had won a Judge’s Choice Award. Yippee!!!

Here are a few more of my favorite non-winning quilts.

As much as I like art quilts, I also greatly admire and appreciate traditional quilts. Especially ones with wonderful color palettes and extraordinary workmanship. Like this one made by Kathleen Roundtree.

She calls is Bodega Bay, and here’s a detail shot.

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2023. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

On the other end of the spectrum, I really liked the abstraction of this piece. It’s called 3 Friends, by Cindy Grisdela.

And this simple piece, featuring stubble from corn rows. Well, maybe it wasn’t featuring the corn rows, but that’s the thing that caught my attention. I guess that’s a throwback to being raised on a farm. I always notice the repetition of planted rows. This piece is called Quiet: A Winter Sunset, by Anne Panella. The field is made of what appears to be silk on top, but it’s been cut through to show a darker fabric below. The cut edges are sort of ragged and it’s very effective.

And check out this quilt, by Margaret James, called Phoebe. When I first saw it I was very close to it and it just looked like an abstract. When I read the title, I knew it depicted a person, so I backed up to see the entire thing. And there she was! This is very well done.