"Texas"
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Entered by Lois Akins(Austin, TX)
- Quilted by Leslie Sparks
- Other Top Makers: Nancy Budet, Diane Burke, Pam Burnett, Barbara Eaton, Bonnie Harvey, Katherine Kistner, Lynette Lewis, Ethel Rupe, Susan Sankey
- Size: 72" W x 97" L
- Entry #1300-025, Professionally Quilted Quilts Category
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Awards
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- Excellence in Machine Quilting, Large
- First in Professionally Quilted Quilts Category
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Comments
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When Match a Patch Bee decided to do a 'round the block' challenge, I selected Texas as the theme of my quilt and I made the first block. I received blocks twice a month for five months from the bee members. They gave me more Texas blocks the following year to celebrate my birthday. After adding a few blocks to the ones given to me, I decided on what I call a 'four patch log cabin' sashing and border block. What you see here today is the final result. Take time to study the various quilting designs created by Leslie Sparks: Bevo in the sky of the UT Tower, muskets on each side of the Alamo and a cannon below, conestoga wagons, oil derricks, cactus, and the rose of Texas, and steer holding a cowboy hat on the bottom row . This quilt was displayed in the Houston International Quilt Show 2007 Special Exhibit "In the American Tradition IV".
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Techniques
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Hand Piecing, Hand Appliqué, Machine Piecing, Machine Appliqué, Machine Quilting, Paper Piecing, Embellishment (beads on rattlesnake)
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Design Source
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Original Design
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