Competitive Quilting - Program Feb. 11

Mardi Carter and one of her award-winning quilts

Have you dreamed about creating an award winning quilt? Estes Valley Quilt Guild's February 11, 2015 program is where you need to be! Three accomplished, award-winning quilters will join a panel discussion on Competitive Quilting - relating their experiences, giving tips, and answering questions. Please join us at Good Samaritan Village at 6:30 p.m.

Mardi Carter has been sewing since childhood and was drawn into quilting by her daughters.  She began showing her work in 2011 in the Hoffman Challenge, where she won a prize.  With that encouraging start, she went on to win awards in 2013 and 2014.  Her quilts have also won awards in the Denver National Quilt Festival and the Quilt Colorado Show. One of her quilts was shown in a special exhibit at the International Quilt Festival of Ireland.

Mary Ann Jobe is a Colorado transplant from Ohio, mother of three and grandmother of three, who says, "Sewing is my life."  In 2013, Mary Ann's quilt was exhibited at American Quilter's Society Quilt Week in Paducah, Kentucky.  Instrumental in the founding of FACE, Fiber Arts Council of Estes, Mary Ann has also shown her quilts in shows in Colorado.  Her quilting talents employ a variety of media.

Annette Kennedy, an avid amateur photographer, creates her landscape and pictorial quilts using various commercial, hand-dyed, and hand painted fabrics.  She is inspired by her travels, botanic gardens, and hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park.  She has won numerous awards over the past decade at shows in Colorado, Ohio, New Mexico, California, Kentucky and Tennessee.  She is a frequent speaker and teacher and has an on-line class titled "Painted Pictorial Quilts."

Annette Kennedy's "Longs Peak Rhapsody"