Muncy Announces 2021 Winners of Quilt Show

Muncy Historical Society announced the award winners of the 2021 quilt contests from its July 9-10 Quilt and Textile Show.

The society’s show featured more than 100 quilts and included a judging component, with ribbons awarded for challenge wall hanging and bed quilts, hand-quilting, hand-guided and computer-guided machine quilting, appliqué, other techniques, use of color, youth, and wall hangings. In addition to ribbons, Best of Show, Best Original Design, Viewer’s Choice, and Judges’ Choice received original ‘impressionist’ oil paintings by Robert Hughes.

Nancy Simmons, of Duncannon, won Best of Show, Best Original Design, and Judges’ Choice for her entry entitled “Amish Chow Chow” and Viewer’s Choice winner, Brett Morgan, Muncy, received the most votes for his “Fancy Farm Boy (A Familiar Stranger)” wall hanging.

View the Show Winners

The “Log Cabin and Variations” Challenge winners were Annette Foresman and Karen Shipton for their wall hangings and Nancy Eischeid, Lucy Henry and Annette Foresman for their bed quilts. Nancy Simmons, Nancy Celline, and Karen Shipton were ribbon recipients in the Applique category; Other Techniques winners were Susan Simpson, Brett Morgan, and Lana Miller; and Nancy Simmons, Abigail Appleman, and Nancy Eischeid won Use of Color.
For hand quilting, Karen Shipton, Mifflinburg, took first and second place, and Nancy Celline was third place; Nancy Simmons and Abigail Appleman were first and second place winners in the domestic/hand-guided machine quilting category; and Nancy Eischeid, Jo Ellen Freida and Amanda Hasemeier won first, second and third place honors in the computer-guided machine category. Lana Miller, Annette Foresman and Susan Ball Faeder were wall hanging winners; G. Ruggiero, Mary Jean Bower and Abigail Appleman took the Contemporary category. Alice Schrack’s entry, “Alice’s Courthouse Steps,” received a rosette in the Youth Category.

The society-sponsored quilt show is made possible, in part, through a grant from the PA Partners of the Arts, a state agency.