Best Wall Quilt award

Winner of the Pfaff Best Wall Quilt Award at the 2026 AQS - Paducah Quilt Week show, today's quilt also won 1st Place in the People, Portraits, and Figures category at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival. We're still marveling at the realistic facial expression achieved with tiny pieces of colorful fabrics.

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The Man Lost in His Memories by Marina Landi, quilted by Fabia Diniz (São Paulo, Brazil) 

 

This original design was created with hand cutting, painting, and dyeing; digital printing; fusing; machine applique and quilting. Marina Landi says, "My style is characterized by the fusible raw edge applique in a wide range of colors in the composition of figurative images. The challenge of transmitting expressions and feelings through small fragments of fabric leads me to represent mainly human physiognomies [facial features.]"

 

 

The incredible quilting by Fabia Diniz gives the appearance of brush strokes in an oil painting.

 

Marina Landi lives in São Paulo and graduated in engineering and plastic arts. For many years, she worked with glass mosaics and now uses that knowledge in her quilting. Her work is especially focused on portraiture and figurative imagery, capturing emotions and expressions with remarkable subtlety and depth—one small piece of fabric at a time.

 

 

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival.