Aunt Mimi's Triumph

Aunt MiMi's Triumph

Machine pieced using Debra Wagner's Striplate piecing
technique; hand appliquéd, and hand quilted.
Hobbs Heirloom Wool batting.

This quilt took more than three years to complete, not
because of the difficult piecing, but because I became
bored with it. The top was put on the back burner,
until I needed a quilt for competition, and it was the
closest to finished! The title is a play on the name
of the traditional block "Whig's Defeat". I completed
the hand quilting for this quilt after suffering a
torn ligament in my right shoulder. I decided, while
quilting through pain, that this quilt would not be my
defeat but my Triumph!
(I'm known as "Aunt MiMi" by my niece and nephews.)

Best of Show, Quilt America! Indianapolis IN 2000
1st place Traditional Bed, Quilter's Heritage
Celebration, Lancaster PA 2000
1st place Traditional Large, Williamsburg Quilt
Festival, Williamsburg VA 2001
Mary Krickbaum Award for Best Hand Quilting,
NQA Show, Tulsa OK 2001