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The Winners List
Quilts that received nearly unanimous endorsements:
Flower Basket Petit Point (Grace Snyder)
Ray of Light (Jinny Beyer)
Paradise Garden (Rose Kretsinger)
Corona II: Solar Eclipse (Caryl Bryer Fallert)
Prosperity/Just Around the Corner (Fannie Shaw)
Matterhorn (Myrtle Fortner)
Nautical Stars (Judy Mathieson)
1926 - 1950
American Life (Mrs. Cecil White)
Amish Pyramid Tumbling Blocks (maker unknown)
Center Medallion (A.Y.)
Fairy (Ruby M. Lanning Lundgren)
The Garden (Emma Craig)
The Garden and Tree of Life (Pine Eisfeller)
Grandmother's Flower Garden (Ruth Lee)
Hexagon Mosaic (Albert Small)
Indiana Wreath (Charlotte Jane Whitehall)
Iris Garland (Hannah Haynes Headlee)
TVA Quilt/Lazy Man (Grace R. Tyler & Ruth C. Bond)
Miniaturized Postage Stamp (Mrs. B.W. Riley)
Mosaic (Grace McCance Snyder)
Orchid Wreath (Rose Kretsinger)
Pikake Lei & Tuberose (Eleanor S. Anderson)
The Quilt Show and The Quilting Bee (Bertha Stenge)
Red Birds or The Garden (Katurah Elisabeth Tooley)
Settling of the West (Mildred Jacob Chappell)
Sunday School Picnic (Jennie Trein)
Sunflower Quilt (Dr. Jeanette Throckmorton)
World of Tomorrow (Pearl Willard Roberds)
1975 - 1999
#91 Quilt (Pamela Studstill)
The AIDS Memorial Quilt (20,000+ makers)
Air Show and Amigos Muertos (Jonathan Shannon)
Amish Spring with Feathers and Lace (Beverly Mannisto Williams)
Ancient Directions (Alison Goss)
Archipelago (Nancy Halpern)
Aurora and Rhythm/Color: Improvisation (Michael James)
Ayame (Irises) (Dorothy Satsue Hamada)
Barefoot & Pregnant (Jean Ray Laury)
Changing Planes (Mariam Nathan-Roberts)
Cherokee Trail of Tears (Chris Wolf Edmonds)
Chrysalis: Log Cabin Variation III (Maria McCormick-Snyder)
Conway Album-I'm Not from Baltimore (Irma Gail Hatcher)
Crowned with Glory-Right Royally (Zena Thorpe)
Dancing on the Dark Side of the Moon (Judy B. Dales)
Dashboard Saints (Terrie Hancock Mangat)
Depth of Field III: Plane View (Jan Myers)
Double Mexican Wedding Rings #4 (Nancy Crow & Marie Moore)
Floral Symphony (Betty Ekern Suiter)
Glorious Lady Freedom (Moneca Calvert)
Guardians of Liberty (Amy Chamberlin)
Gypsy in My Soul (Jane Blair)
Hydrangea (Velda E. Newman)
In Praise of Poppies (Emilie M. Belak)
In the Beginning (Barbara Olson)
In the Grass (Joan Lintault)
In the Heart of Europe (Margarete Heinisch)
Joie De Vie (Candy Goff)
Joy Ride (Libby Lehman)
Kaleidoscope XVI: More is More (Paula Nadelstern)
Keep Both Feet on the Floor (Yvonne Porcella)
The Ladies of Baltimore (Elly Sienkiewicz & others)
Log Cabin Maze (Ellen Oppenheimer)
March Study (Nancy Crow and Mrs. Levi Mast)
Men: Mask Face Quilt #2 (Faith Ringgold)
My Mother Taught Me to Sew (Faye Anderson)
Naiad (Charlotte Warr Andersen)
Nancy's Garden (Nancy Pearson)
Painted Metal Ceiling (Anne Oliver)
Piece and Quiet (Cynthia England)
Putnam County Quilt (Gladys Boalt & others)
Rail Through the Rockies (Debra Wagner)
Renaissance (Helen Kelley)
Rio Hondo (Katie Pasquini-Masopust)
Row Houses (Flavin Glover)
Sahel (Hollis Chatelain)
Seams A Lot Like Degas (Lura Schwarz Smith)
Toujours Nouveau (Suzanne Marshall)
Twelve Dancing Princesses and The Yellow Maple (Ruth McDowell)
Two Minutes in May (Shirley P. Kelly)
Willow (Jane A. Sassaman)
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