Fest Quilt
Festival fund raiser to help keep registration costs down
Our beautiful dulcimer quilts are hand crafted by Debbie Velasquez (Association Secretary, Festival Registration) each year in Albuquerque. Quilts are displayed during the festival with the winner being announced at the Festival's final evening concert (Saturday). You don't need to be present at the concert or even attend the festival to win. We can mail you the quilt.
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Latest Quilt (raffle date TBD)
56 inches wide by 60 inches long (before quilting)
Debbie calls our quilt "Old Joe Clark" (go figure!) which is ornamented with Kaffe Fassett fabric mosaic circles.
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Quilt archive from earlier years:
(For the 2020/2021 pandemic years where we held virtual (online) festivals, Debbie didn't make quilts.)
2019 Quilt (went to D.W. in CO)
66 inches square
The 2019 quilt was adapted from a Mardi Gras pattern Debbie ran across called “Carnivale,” but she used original jewel toned fabrics for this 10th Anniversary quilt that were created just for our festival quilt with instruments featured in our event. It’s called “Jammin’ Jewels.”
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2018 Quilt (went to M.C. in NM)
48 inches x 58 inches
Debbie called the 2018 quilt "Dulcimer Campfire Melodies." It was all cotton, hand stitched appliqué and hand quilted.
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2017 Quilt (went to M.B. in NM)
61 inches x 57 inches
The 2017 quilt, called "Postcards from our Festival," was based on some amazing quilted Southwestern postcards Debbie saw. She's used a 12" x 18" block size! It included five blocks of cactus, a landscape block, and another block featuring an adobe wall with a traditional blue door...and of course, dulcimers!
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2016 Quilt (went to C.B. in OR)
73 inches x 58 inches
The 2016 quilt was inspired by Debbie finding a fabric with mountain and hammered dulcimers, as well as other more common folk instruments. The tiny 4" blocks were used to form good size "log cabin" quilt blocks in shades of teal and cream. Each block features a different folk instrument!
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2015 Quilt (went to S.W. in NM)
66 inches x 66 inches - perfect for bed size!
Debbie named the 2015 quilt "Greenhouse Dulcimer Garden." It was hand appliquéd, machine pieced and hand quilted.
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2014 Quilt (went to K.A. in MD)
54 inches x 54 inches
Debbie called the 2014 quilt "Midnight Dulcimer Garden." It was all cotton batik hand appliqué. She took a floral quilt pattern, and incorporated mountain and hammered dulcimers into the design. Inset is a single panel before everything was pieced together.
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2013 Quilt (went to L.H. in NC)
39 inches x 39 inches
Quilt was hand appliquéd, and machine pieced, in a southwestern design. It had everything you could want in a New Mexico Dulcimer Festival quilt - mountains, lavender, an adobe wall, a chile ristra, and dulcimers!
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2012 Quilt (went to P.E. in NM)
41 inches x 41 inches
Titled ”Dulcimer Blues”. Hawaiian-style symmetrical design cut from a single piece of hand-dyed cotton fabric (think paper snowflakes!).
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2011 Quilt (went to D.D. in CA)
40 inches x 52 inches
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2010 Quilt (went to S.S. in NM)
60 inches x 71 inches
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