SHORELINE — Shoreline resident Virginia Anderson loves making quilts. Her speciality is teapot quilts.
“I collect teapots, and I have quit a large collection, so I do teapot quilts. I decided it was my obsession, so I call my quilts ‘teapot obsession,’” Anderson said.
Anderson’s quilt “Teapot Obsession VIII: Fat Forties Teapots with Teabag Sashing” has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the 2003 American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show and Contest, April 23-26 in Paducah, Ky.
The quilt will compete against 419 other quilts from around the world for best-in-class. The winner receives an $18,000 cash prize and the winning quilt will be put on display in the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society.
Anderson came up with the design for this quilt herself, she said, and was inspired by the fabrics.
“The fabrics are reminiscent of 1940s style fabrics,” she said, “and I call it tea bag sashing because the sashing is squares set on plank that goes between all 16 teapots.”
Forty eight teacups make up the boarders of the quilt and there are 2,835 pieces in the quilt, “some as small as my little finger nail,” Anderson said.
Her quilt measures 80 inches wide by 80 inches long and she machine quilted it. The quilt won third place in the Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Festival this past summer and was named grand champion in the professional division at the 2002 Puyallup Fair. It also took first place in the Quilters Anonymous Quilt Show this past month.
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