Bethanna

Awards, Exhibits and Publications

Awards

Inducted into National Quilting Association’s Masterpiece Quilt Guild, 2015


Master Award for Machine Artistry, Houston International Quilt Festival, 2016


Best of Show, Northwest Quilting Expo, 2019


Best of Show, Small, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019


Best Standup Machine Quilting and First Place in Large Wall Quilts, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, 2016


Best of Show, AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, 2015, 2016


Best of Show, Machine Quilters Showcase, 2016


Best of Show, Medium Size, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, 2015


Best of Show, Machine Quilters Showcase, 2015


Best of Show, First Place in Reflection of Theme and Viewer’s Choice, A Quilters Gathering, 2014


Best of Show, First Place in Quilting Excellence Machine and First Place in Overall Craftsmanship, A Quilters Gathering, 2013


Best of Show, Machine Quilters Exposition West, 2013


Exemplary Machine Quilting, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019


Exemplary Machine Quilting, Indiana Heritage Quilt Festival, 2019


Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, 2017


Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, 2017


Best Machine Quilting, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, 2016


Outstanding Traditional Quilt, Road to California Quilt Show, 2016


Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, 2015


Best Wall Quilt, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, 2015


Best Wall Longarm Machine Workmanship, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, 2015


Best Wall Quilt, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, 2015


Best Wall Quilt, Quiltfest Destination Savannah, 2015


Best Machine Quilting (Longarm) and First Place in Solo Artist, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, 2014


Best Machine Quilting (Longarm) and Second Place in Other Techniques, Minnesota Quilters Quilt Show, 2014


Best Pictorial Quilt, Traditional, Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2014


Viewer’s Choice, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, 2015


New England Quilt Museum, Curated Special Exhibit: “Silk!”, April – July 2013


Excellence in Longarm Quilting, Road to California Quilt Show, 2017


First Place, Wholecloth, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019


First Place, Merit Quilting, Houston International Quilt Show, 2018


First Place, Embellished Wall Quilt, AQS Fall Paducah, 2018


First Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Whole Cloth 2018


First Place, Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, Heirloom Wall, 2018


First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Mixed Techniques Wall, 2018


First Place, Northwest Quilting Expo, Freehand Machine Quilting, 2017


First Place, Large Quilt: Quilting is the Star, AQS Quilt Week Paducah (Fall), 2017


First Place, Wall Quilt Predominantly Pieced, Quilt Odyssey, 2017


First Place, Wall/Small Quilt, Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, 2017


First Place, Wall Quilt Predominantly Pieced, Quilt Odyssey, 2016


First Place, Mixed Media-Small, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, 2016


First Place, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Small Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016


First Place, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Longarm Machine Quilted Wall Quilt, 2016


First Place, AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, Longarm Machine Quilted Wall Quilt, 2016


First Place, Houston International Quilt Festival, Merit Quilting, 2015


First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quit – Other, 2015


First Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Pictorial, 2015


First Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Medium Pieced Quilt, 2015


First Place, Minnesota Quilter’s Quilt Show, Other Techniques, 2015


First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Traditional Whole Cloth, 2015


First Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Large Wholecloth, 2015


First Place / Blue Ribbon, Vermont Quilt Festival, 2014


First Place, AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, Traditional Wall Quilt, 2014


First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Wall Hanging, 2014


First Place, Machine Quilters Showcase, Art Quilt, 2014


First Place, AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Wall Quilt, 2014


First Place, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Quilt, 2014


First Place, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Traditional, 2013


First Place, Lowell Quilt Festival (Images), Wall Pieced, 2013


First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Mixed and Other Techniques, 2014


First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Mainly Pieced, 2013


First Place / Blue Ribbon with a special award for “Best Use of Complementary Color”, Vermont Quilt Festival, 2012


First Place, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Traditional, 2012


First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Wall Hanging, 2012


First Place, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Mixed Technique, 2003


First Place, St. Andrews Quilt Show, Bed Quilt, Mixed Technique, 2003


Second Place, Houston International Quilt Show, 2019


Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, New Traditions in Textiles, 2018


Second Place, AQS Grand Rapids, Longarm Wall, 2018


Second Place, AQS Virginia Beach, Longarm Wall, 2018


Second Place, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Traditional Quilt, 2017


Second Place, AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Wall Quilt, 2016


Second Place, Northwest Quilting Expo, Freehand Machine Quilting, 2015


Second Place, AQS Quilt Week Syracuse, Wall Quilt, 2015


Second Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Other Quilt, 2015


Second Place, Machine Quilters Showcase, Whole Cloth, 2015


Second Place, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Pieced, 2015


Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, Small Wholecloth, 2014


Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Quilts Among Friends, 2014


Second Place, Georgia Quilt Show, Small Wall Quilt, 2013


Second Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Pieced, 2012


Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Quilts Among Friends, 2012


Third Place, AQS Virginia Beach, Fiber Art Wall, 2018


Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016


Third Place, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, New Traditions in Textiles, 2017


Third Place, Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, Art and Innovative, 2017


Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016


Third Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Art-Innovative, 2016


Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Albuquerque, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2015


Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2014


Third Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Solo Artist, 2012


Third Place, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Mixed Technique, 2002


Co-Directors’ Award, A Quilter’s Gathering, 2012


Honorable Mention, AQS Daytona, Quilted Wall 2019


Honorable Mention, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, Mixed Media, 2018


Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Large Machine Quilt, 2017


Honorable Mention, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Pieced Quilt, 2015


Honorable Mention, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Other, 2015


Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week, Des Moines, Machine Quilted Wall 2014


Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week, Grand Rapids, Machine Quilted Wall 2014


Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Small Wall Quilts 1st Entry, 2014


Honorable Mention, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Pieced Wall Hanging, 2012


Judge’s Choice, Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2014


Judge’s Choice, Home Machine Quilting Show, 2014


Judge’s Choice, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, 2004


Exhibitions

Iowa Quilt Museum, “Pets”, May – September 2024 (Yarn Couching Jackets)


New England Quilt Museum, “Animalia”, September – December 2023 (Yarn Couching Jackets)


A Quilters Gathering, Juried, 2013, 2014


AQS Quilt Week Albuquerque, Juried, 2015


AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, Juried, 2014, 2015


AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, Juried, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019


AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018


AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018


AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019


AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016


AQS Quilt Week Paducah (Fall), Juried, 201,2018


AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Juried, 2014, 2016


AQS Quilt Week Syracuse, Juried, 2015


Georgia Quilt Show, Juried, 2013


Home Machine Quilting Show, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016


Houston International Quilt Festival, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018,2019


Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019


Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, Juried, 2017


Lowell Quilt Festival (Images), Juried, 2013


Machine Quilters Exposition East, Juried, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019


Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, Juried, 2014, 2016, 2017


Machine Quilters Exposition West, Juried, 2011, 2013


Machine Quilters Showcase, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016


Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Juried, 2003, 2017


Minnesota Quilter’s Quilt Show, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019,


National Quilting Association Quilt Show, 2002, 2003, 2015


Northwest Quilting Expo, Juried, 2015, 2017


Pacific International Quilt Festival, Juried, 2014, 2017


Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013


Quilter’s Heritage Celebration, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2004


Quiltfest Destination Savannah, Juried, 2015


Quilt Odyssey, Juried, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018


Road to California Quilt Show, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018


Shipshewana Quilt Festival, Juried, 2016, 2018


St. Andrews Bay Quilt Show, 2003


Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, 2017,2018


Vermont Quilt Festival, 2012, 2014


Wisconsin Quilt Expo, Juried, 2017


Publications

Online Quilting Magazine, Mach 2024: “An Interview with Bethanne Nemesh”


Quilting Arts Magazine, Winter 2024: “Yarn Couching: Free Motion to Fine Art”


Curated Quilts, June 2023: “Temperature Quilts”


American Quilter Magazine, July 2019: “Pictorial Yarn Couching with Bethanne Nemesh” and “Song of Summer”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2018: “New and Noteworthy: Solitaire”


American Quilter Magazine, March 2018: “Walk a Creative Path with Bethanne Nemesh”


American Quilter Magazine, January 2018: “Into the Westward Sun”


American Quilter Magazine, July 2017: “Into the Westward Sun”


American Quilter Magazine, May 2017: “The Paisley Peacock”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2017: “Pictographic Quilting” (cover)


Machine Quilting Unlimited, November/December 2016: “Freehand Feathers: From Fast to Fancy”


American Quilter Magazine, November 2016: “The Paisley Peacock”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2016: “Secondary Surprises”


American Quilter Magazine, May 2016: “October Sky”


American Quilter Magazine, March 2016: “October Sky”


American Quilt Society Wall Calendar, 2016: “October Sky”


Machine Quilting Unlimited Wall Calendar, 2016: “The Shell Collector”


International Quilt Festival Quilting Scene, 2015-2016: “The Paisley Peacock”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, November/December 2015: “Fall Freehand Fantasy”


American Quilter Magazine, November 2015: “October Sky”


Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, October/November 2015: “October Sky”


Quilting Quarterly, Fall 2015: “October Sky”


On Track! Magazine, Summer 2015: “October Sky” (cover)


Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, August/September 2015: “The Paisley Peacock”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, July/August 2015: “The Paisley Peacock”


American Quilter Magazine, July 2015: “October Sky”


American Quilter Magazine, May 2015: “The Shell Collector”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2015: “Reaching Back”


American Quilter Magazine, January 2015: “The Shell Collector”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2014: “The Shell Collector”


American Quilter Magazine, May 2014: “Gilding the Arbor”


Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, February/March 2014: “The Shell Collector”


Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2013: “Gilding the Arbor”


New Hampshire To Do, April 2013: “Tree of Life”


American Quilter, Fall 2003, Vol. 19, No. 3: “Celtic Crossings: Sampler to Spectacular”


Art Quilt 2005 Weekly Calendar: “Poppies in the Field”