International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX
The judging is complete and my quilt has won 1st place in Naturescapes category.
I consider this a great honor.
Pat Durbin is an award-winning quilt artist who uses unique textiles techniques to create quilts from photos. Pat has had her quilts featured in quilt museums, has won numerous quilt awards, and is author of five quilting books.
Since 2005, Pat Durbin has been making art quilts that resemble paintings. She find this to be filled with challenges and rewards. Pat has sewn clothes since childhood but now spends most of her sewing time making quilted art. Using photography as inspiration and various techniques, Pat makes quilted fine art scenes. Her style is to quilt my art on her home sewing machine. She has done portraits as well as many landscapes. Read more
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