QuiltNational 2109

At this year's Quilt National in Athens, Ohio, my quilt "Orange Blossoms" was awarded the *LYNN GOODWIN BORGMAN AWARD FOR SURFACE DESIGN*.
 
*Orange Blossoms* ©Margarita Korioth
   

I am so honored to have received this award at such a prestigious international venue! This mixed media piece was made with the technique I developed called INC-Infused Newsprint Cloth, which is a washable cloth made with recycled  newspapers.

 

This is my first year submitting a quilt to QUILT NATIONAL and also my first time attending. It was so very emotional! I made new friends, who are all wonderful artists with their own styles.

 

I only took a few pictures of the event because I was very busy talking and getting to know the other artists.

 

Standing with Jane Broemel to the left and Elizabeth Ferry Pekins to the right.Jane's art is pictured in the back.

 

Selfie with Betty Busby, a great artist I have admired for many years, I was so happy to finally meet her in person.

 

Here I am with Arturo Sandoval, who also won an award this year for Innovative Material. He loves to use plastic and other unusual components for his work.

 

I had a lovely chat with Joan Schulze, a mixed media artist who also loves to work with paper.

 

 

Standing with Kathy Ford. Her quilt is behind us.

 

 

Some of us sitting at the lobby, signing lots of autographs. I felt famous for a couple of minutes.

 

After the festivities were finished I gave a WORKSHOP for two full days in the art room upstairs.

 

 

Ann Judy, Sandy, Kathy and one more student that had to leave a day earlier.

 

What a *wonderful* group of ladies. We worked very hard. They learned my technique of  INC. We covered all kind of ways to use this technique: working with masks, by design, shapes, repeats and more.

 

Here are a few pictures of the students work:

 

 

A BIG thank you for all the staff at the Dairy Barn Arts Center for organizing very well the events and helping setting up my classroom and assisting me on all of my needs.

I came back home with a smile in my heart!

I am linked to: http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/. Go and visit what the other artist are doing and get inspire!





Quilt National'19

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I am thrilled to announced that my entry *Orange Blossoms* has been accepted at 

Quilt National 2019.

 

If you followed my work you might read how this quilt has been made. First, I chose my color palette by mixing paint to matched my thread, you can read more: HERE, HERE, HERE. Then, the recycled newsprint has been infused in to the cloth (technique I developed and I called INC, you can read more HERE) followed by paint to complete the designs, in this case the big flowers. After the hand work was done the three layers were sewn together by my home machine.

 

These are wonderful news since this year they are celebrating their 40th anniversary. I am doing the happy dance.