Champagne Supernova

Art

The National Quilt Museum

Name/Title

Champagne Supernova

Entry/Object ID

2023.03.01

Made/Created

Artist

Marilyn Badger

Date made

2017

Place

City

St. George

State/Province

Utah

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Dimensions

Height

75 in

Width

75 in

Web Links and URLs

Marilyn Badger's Website, Quiltipedia - Marilyn Badger

Interpretative Labels

Label

Star quilts have always been a favorite of Marilyn’s. This quilt, which took nine months to make, evolved from her desire to make a hand embroidered, embellished, red and black quilt. She added the fireworks because as she explained, “What’s an exploding star without a few fireworks in the background?!” After the quilting, when she added the paint, the quilt went from a more silver look to gold, inspiring the name "Champagne Supernova."

Research Notes

Notes

1st Place Wall Quilts: Movable Machine Quilted - Houston International Quilt Festival - 2019

General Notes

Note Type

Materials Used

Note

Cottons, beads, crystals, embroidery thread, metal embellishments, paint

Note Type

Techniques Used

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Machine paper pieced, hand Appliquéd, machine appliquéd, machine freemotion quilted, hand embroidered, hand embellished, hand painted

Note

Awards List: Best Traditional Quilt - PIQF 2017 Director's Choice - Road to California 2018 1st Place Pieced - Shipshewana 2018 2nd Place Pieced - Indiana Heritage 2019 1st Place Pieced - Quilt Odyssey 2019 Pfaff Master of Machine Artistry - IQA Houston 2019