Sunriver resident, Marilyn Badger, recently received word that her quilt “Filigree“ won the coveted Best of Show award at the American Quilter’s Society 2010 Quilt Show and Contest in Lancaster, Pa. On March 23 she received THE call from Bonnie Browning, show organizer and representative of AQS, telling her of her win.  The award came with a $10,000 cash prize.  “Filigree” was chosen from 400 entries submitted by quilters from 38 states and 7 countries.  It also previously won Best of Show at Pacific International Quilt Festival in San Francisco late last year.  The quilt will now travel to the AQS Show in Paducah, Ky for a special exhibit of winning quilts from the Lancaster show.  The AQS Paducah Quilt Show and Contest is held the last week of April and is the largest quilt competition in the world, drawing approximately 40,000 attendees during the 4 days of the exhibition.

Marilyn has been quilting competitively for 8 years and has won over 100 major awards at quilt shows throughout the country.  She has been appearing on public television for 12 years where she demonstrates various machine quilting techniques on “Love of Quilting with Fons & Porter”.  Having taught machine quilting classes in various parts of the US, Canada, Australia and Japan, she now serves as a consultant to American Professional Quilting Systems (manufacturer of the brand of longarm machine she uses) and is an active participant on their behalf at major quilt shows throughout the US and Japan.  For the past 12 years she and her husband, Hartley, have owned and operated Hartley Mfg., Inc., which manufactures  longarm quilting machine accessories.  They absolutely love living in Sunriver and enjoy playing golf every chance they get.