Botanical Arts
Section C – Pressed Plants Creations
Classes 4A, 4B, & 4C
“Bee” Green
Novice Class - Each GCA Zone will submit a pressed flower “quilt piece”, the design of which should incorporate a pollinator plant and/or a pollinator from their zone. Herbarium paper will be provided by the Committee upon registration. The finished piece will measure 11 1/2” x 11 1/2”. The design must go to the edge of the paper. The “quilt pieces” should be photographed from above on a black background. The pieces will be assembled by the Committee and displayed together as one “quilt”. A statement of intent and sample card are required.
Twelve Entries
Class 4A
Barbara Batting
Rumson Garden Club
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“My piece evokes a Folk Art appliqué quilt square. A Zone IV pollinator is surrounded by garden flowers and meandering vines.”
“Bold use of color and rhythmic pattern makes your panel buzz.”
Karen Marache & Julie Pryor
Greenwich Garden Club
“Bee Green” Around the Green Double Wedding Ring Quilt Pattern
“Green Ferns = confidence and shelter for blooms.
The Butterfly (outline) moves pollen from one plant to another.
Bees are the champion pollinators - see saddlebag pockets = corbiculae, carry pollen”
“Beautiful rhythmic kaleidoscope of vibrant color and graduated size.”
Kirsten Larsen
Lake Geneva Garden Club
Quilting Bee
“The quilting bee makes fine stitches.”
“A light and airy symmetrical design with a whimsical surprise.”
“More contrast of shapes and sizes would strengthen the design.”
Debby Melnyk
Late Bloomers Garden Club
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“Beautiful, bountiful, banquet for bees
Feast on the flowers . . .
More honey, please! ”
“An effective use of positive and negative space.”
“A stronger focal point would enhance the design.”
Class 4B
Cary Brodie
Cincinnati Town & Country Garden Club
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“Tradescantia ohiensis (bluejacket spiderwort) attracts multiple native bees. This stalwart of the Midwest is found in areas surrounding the methodically defined plots of farmland.”
“The line, texture and pattern trapped us in the interesting design of the web.”
“More contrast in the background of the web would enhance the effect.”
Meg Tapp
The Garden Club of Houston
All Aflutter
“Flitting from flower to flower with grace and beauty, ensuring the loveliness that is to come.”
“Multi-layered components build a dynamic and magical pattern.”
Gay Legg & Rebecca Waters
St. George’s Garden Club
Zone VI is Buzzing—Bees, Butterflies, and Dragonflies!
“Historic ‘Baltimore Album Quilts’ inspired our ‘appliqued’ bees, pollinating Maryland’s state flower, the Black-eyed Susan, and beautiful Zone VI gardens from D.C. to the Eastern Shore!”
“A pollinator party with a profusion of color and texture.”
“Fewer components would clarify the design.”
Bonnie Grenney
Garden Club of Denver
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“Fibonacci Sequence—Reoccurring geometric pattern found throughout nature, also known as the golden mean, the ratio by which we perceive beauty.”
“Clever interpretation using repeated shapes that create motion.”
“The center flower distracts from the sequence.”
Class 4C
Pamela Sherlock
Three Harbors Garden Club
Central Park’s Greensward Plan is all abuzz!
“Take a stroll across Central Park’s Bow Bridge and watch bees commute as they take residence in surrounding rooftop hives known as ‘Bees On Sixth.’”
“Pleasing variety of components with a wonderful honeycomb frame.”
“Placement of the building disrupts the rhythm.”
Pamela Sulewski
The Planters
Zone V’s diminutive pollinator, the hummingbird.
“Bringing awareness to a common Zone V pollinator, the hummingbird and its diminutive nest, utilizing some material from the plants in which they nest.”
“Strong, well-positioned components utilize line and negative space.”
Cynthia Macgowan
Noanett Garden Club
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“Portrayal of Bombus Anis, Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, a ‘species at risk.’ Material and design to convey layers of bee structure and movement of wings.”
“Fantastical use of botanical materials make this bee take flight.”
“The bee is slightly out of scale for the space.”
Marta Nelson
Garden Club of Norfolk
Grace’s Garden
“Sunflowers were ever present in Mamaw’s lush garden, and her handmade quilts adorned the bed where I slept when I visited as a child.”
Special Awards Judges’ Comments:
“Notable placement and use of negative space are accentuated by layering and shadowing resulting in a highly memorable composition. Van Gogh would be proud!”
Judges’ Comments:
“Superb craftsmanship and juxtaposition of foreground and honeycomb background create depth.”
