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Quilt festival's best of show is an elaborate wintry scene
By Alyson Ward | October 28, 2014 | Updated: October 29, 2014 12:14am
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"On This Winter Day," by Nancy Prince and Linda French of Orlando, Fla., is winner of the Handi Quilter Best of Show Award, the $10,000 top prize at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Zeruah's Legacy" by Barbara Korengold is winner of the $7,500 Founders Award at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Gift of Appreciation" by Kyoko Yamauchi is winner of the $7,500 eQuilter.com World of Beauty Award at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Breezy Garden" by Kayoko Hibino is winner of the $5,000 Robert S. Cohan Master Award for Traditional Artistry at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Beneath My Wing" by David Taylor is winner of the $5,000 Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Artistry at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Stars on Mars" by Gail Stepanek and Jan Hutchison is winner of the $5,000 Pfaff Master Award for Machine Artistry at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Summer Wind" by Marina Landi and Maria Lucia Azara is winner of the $5,000 Baby Lock Master Award for Innovative Artistry at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By International Quilt Assoc"Bike Boys" by Lea McComas is winner of the $5,000 Superior Threads Master Award for Thread Artistry at the 2014 International Quilt Festival Houston. International Quilt Assoc
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Photo By Gary Fountain/Freelance
Nancy Prince, reacting with Linda French after their winning quilt, "On This Winter Day," was awarded the $10,000 Handi Quilter Best of Show Award at the International Quilt Festival. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, October 28, 2014)
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Photo By Gary Fountain/FreelanceNancy Prince, reacting with Linda French after their winning quilt, "On This Winter Day," was awarded the $10,000 Handi Quilter Best of Show Award at the International Quilt Festival. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, October 28, 2014)
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Photo By Gary Fountain/Freelance
Nancy Prince, left, and Linda French with their winning quilt that was awarded the $10,000 Handi Quilter Best of Show Award at the International Quilt Festival. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, October 28, 2014)
The best of show winner at the International Quilt Festival Houston required 75,000 yards of thread, 7 million stitches and 2,000 hours over seven years by two Florida women.
"On This Winter Day" portrays an elaborate nostalgic scene: Bundled-up children make snow angels and skate across a frozen river while horse-drawn carriages maneuver through snowy streets. It won the Handi Quilter Best of Show award, a $10,000 prize, for Nancy Prince and Linda French of Orlando, Fla.
Other top prizes went to both art quilts and traditional designs. Barbara Korengold, of Chevy Chase, Md., won the $7,500 Founders Award for "Zeruah's Legacy," an embroidered applique quilt based loosely on a famous carpet embroidered in the 1830s and now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Three of the top eight prizes went to international quilters, including Kyoko Yamauchi, of Kumamoto, Japan, who won the $7,500 eQuilter.com World of Beauty award for a traditional quilt titled "Gift of Appreciation." Kayoko Hibino, of Japan, and Marina Landi and Maria Lucia Azara, both of Brazil, won two of the festival's $5,000 prizes.
About 60,000 people are expected to attend this year's quilt festival, which opens to the public at 7 p.m. Wednesday and continues through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.