Congratulations to the Grand Prize winners!
Lisette Léveillé in the Amateur Category, for KARMIC Astrology Wheel:
Joyce Hughes in the Professional Category, for Together, the Better of Both Worlds:
From 15 winning entry quilts in each category in May, Finalists designed a quilt top which incorporated an assigned quilt block for Challenge 1.
Winning entry quilts: Amateur Category, Professional Category
Challenge 1 Finalists: Amateur Category, Professional Category
Amish Star - FREE from McCallsQuilting.com Block Index Library
For Challenge 2, 12 continuing Finalists in each category went on to design a quilt top that incorporated a cut of fabric from the same bolt.
Challenge 2 Finalists: Amateur Category
Fabric provided by Timeless Treasures
Challenge 2 Finalists: Professional Category
Fabric provided by Free Spirit
For the 3rd and final Challenge, the remaining 9 Finalists in each category competed for the grand prizes with a quilt designed on the theme “Opposites Attract”.
Challenge 3 Finalists: Amateur Category
Challenge 3 Finalists: Professional Category
Look for the complete contest wrap up in the May/June 2013 issue of McCall’s Quilting.
Lisette and Joyce will each receive $500 cash, plus either the Viking Sapphire™ 875 Quilt (Lisette) or the Pfaff® quilt expression™ 4.0 (Joyce).
McCall’s Quilting would like to once again extend a special thanks to the wonderful sponsors of this year’s contest!
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Windham Fabrics, EE Schenck/Maywood, Moda Fabrics, P & B Textiles, Coats & Clark, Red Rooster Fabrics, Fairfield, Leisure Arts, The Warm Company, Colonial Needle, Presencia, Andover Fabrics, Blank Quilting, Clover
Congratulations to the winners and all the finalists…it must have been wonderful to be a part of this contest and see your beautiful quilts online! I have loved looking at the fabulous designs you have made. Great job! And thank you McCall’s Quilting for running this challenge. I can hardly wait to see what you come up with next year!
Jeanette B.
Congratulations to Lizette and Joyce, I know you will both enjoy your prizes as much as we enjoyed the quilts.
I feel that I was in great company through out this competition and had the oppurtinity to get to know each of you a little better through the challenges.
I hope to hear and see more of your works in the future.
Once again congratulations.
in stitches
Congratulations to the winners, it was an honor to work and share along side you. There were no losers in this challenge. All in both categories are wonderfully tallented. Thank you to the sponsors for making it all possible.
Congrats to Joyce!
And huge congrats to a very wonderful friend, Lisette!!! I passed you the torch and you ran like the wind! So very proud of you!! ♥