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The National Quilt Museum has a contest every year featuring a traditional block. It is the New Quilts from an Old Favorite contest. They are looking for the creator to put their own original twist on the design. This year the block was the Bow Tie. Here are the winners and finalists.

Next year's block is the Oak Leaf & Reel. Will you enter?

Bow Tie: 2018 Grand Prize Winner -

Formal Dinner by Alicia Sterna from Surprise, AZ

 

2nd Place - Caribbean Ties by Nancy Lambert from Greensboro, GA

 

3rd Place - Froggy Went A-Courtin’ by Laurie Schoenebeck from Mountain, WI

 

4th Place - Black Tie and Tails by Karen Grover from Rockford, IL

 

5th Place - Bow Doodles by Claudia Clark Myers from Duluth, MN

 

Finalists

• You Can’t Tie a Bow around This by Jean Brueggenjohann from Columbia, MO
• Maze Garden by Li-Hsiang Chen from Pin-Tung City, Taiwan
• Negotiating the Price of an Apple by Tere D’Amato from Mashpee, MA
• Black Tie for a Blue Moon Eclipse by Mary Kay Davis from Sunnyvale, CA
• Silk Ties by Margaret Fetterhoff from Spring, TX
• The Perfect Nanny by Cathy Geier from Waukesha, WI
• Puttin’ on the Ritz by Leslie Johnson from Arvada, CO
• Spring into Daily Lives by Hui-Fen Lin from Tainan, Taiwan
• Bow Tied Barbers by Zeeda Magnuson from Minneapolis, MN
• Black Tie Optional by Susan Mogan from Mobile, AL
• Abstract on Black Tie by Sandi Snow from Lutz, FL
• Cross Pollination by Rachel Weekley from Montgomery City, MO and Marilyn Smith from Columbia, MO
• Papillon by Julie Wells from Cadiz, KY