It is with great honor that we congratulate our own talented Ethel DuBois of Classic Quilters with the National Quilting Association Certified Judge Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Quilting for her quilt, "Cherry Baskets".
The criteria for awarding this prestigious award per NQA is:
"If professionalism,
experience, and integrity were not sufficient reasons alone to secure an
NQA certified quilt judge to judge your group’s show, here’s another
incentive—the brand new NQACJ Award of Merit. With prior approval of the
show coordinator or sponsor, NQA certified judges have the option of
awarding this special ribbon to a deserving quilt in any show he/she
might judge. At the judge’s discretion, it will be awarded to one quilt
achieving recognized standards of quilt making excellence. This ribbon is
not meant to conflict with any other show awards, but will be an
encouraging addition to them, at no cost or obligation to the show
sponsors.
The NQACJ Award of Merit is
yet another way NQA strives to recognize and reward fine quilts. Makers
of Award of Merit winning quilts will be presented a letter of
congratulations in addition to a lovely rosette ribbon. They will also
be invited to post photos of their quilts on the NQA website and to
enter them in the annual NQA Quilt Show."
For those of you who know Ethel, her entire quilt is handmade--hand appliqued, hand pieced and bound and of course, stunningly hand quilting.
A photo will be posted soon. If you happened to take a photo of the quilt during the show and would like to share it with us, please send to me in .JPEG format to 2013hexagonswap@gmail.com
