Awards
Inducted into National Quilting Association’s Masterpiece Quilt Guild, 2015
Master Award for Machine Artistry, Houston International Quilt Festival, 2016
Best of Show, Northwest Quilting Expo, 2019
Best of Show, Small, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019
Best Standup Machine Quilting and First Place in Large Wall Quilts, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, 2016
Best of Show, AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, 2015, 2016
Best of Show, Machine Quilters Showcase, 2016
Best of Show, Medium Size, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, 2015
Best of Show, Machine Quilters Showcase, 2015
Best of Show, First Place in Reflection of Theme and Viewer’s Choice, A Quilters Gathering, 2014
Best of Show, First Place in Quilting Excellence Machine and First Place in Overall Craftsmanship, A Quilters Gathering, 2013
Best of Show, Machine Quilters Exposition West, 2013
Exemplary Machine Quilting, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019
Exemplary Machine Quilting, Indiana Heritage Quilt Festival, 2019
Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, 2017
Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, 2017
Best Machine Quilting, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, 2016
Outstanding Traditional Quilt, Road to California Quilt Show, 2016
Best Longarm Machine Quilting, AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, 2015
Best Wall Quilt, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, 2015
Best Wall Longarm Machine Workmanship, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, 2015
Best Wall Quilt, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, 2015
Best Wall Quilt, Quiltfest Destination Savannah, 2015
Best Machine Quilting (Longarm) and First Place in Solo Artist, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, 2014
Best Machine Quilting (Longarm) and Second Place in Other Techniques, Minnesota Quilters Quilt Show, 2014
Best Pictorial Quilt, Traditional, Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2014
Viewer’s Choice, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, 2015
New England Quilt Museum, Curated Special Exhibit: “Silk!”, April – July 2013
Excellence in Longarm Quilting, Road to California Quilt Show, 2017
First Place, Wholecloth, Minnesota Quilt Show, 2019
First Place, Merit Quilting, Houston International Quilt Show, 2018
First Place, Embellished Wall Quilt, AQS Fall Paducah, 2018
First Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Whole Cloth 2018
First Place, Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, Heirloom Wall, 2018
First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Mixed Techniques Wall, 2018
First Place, Northwest Quilting Expo, Freehand Machine Quilting, 2017
First Place, Large Quilt: Quilting is the Star, AQS Quilt Week Paducah (Fall), 2017
First Place, Wall Quilt Predominantly Pieced, Quilt Odyssey, 2017
First Place, Wall/Small Quilt, Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, 2017
First Place, Wall Quilt Predominantly Pieced, Quilt Odyssey, 2016
First Place, Mixed Media-Small, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, 2016
First Place, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Small Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016
First Place, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Longarm Machine Quilted Wall Quilt, 2016
First Place, AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, Longarm Machine Quilted Wall Quilt, 2016
First Place, Houston International Quilt Festival, Merit Quilting, 2015
First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quit – Other, 2015
First Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Pictorial, 2015
First Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Medium Pieced Quilt, 2015
First Place, Minnesota Quilter’s Quilt Show, Other Techniques, 2015
First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Traditional Whole Cloth, 2015
First Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Large Wholecloth, 2015
First Place / Blue Ribbon, Vermont Quilt Festival, 2014
First Place, AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, Traditional Wall Quilt, 2014
First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Wall Hanging, 2014
First Place, Machine Quilters Showcase, Art Quilt, 2014
First Place, AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Wall Quilt, 2014
First Place, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Quilt, 2014
First Place, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Traditional, 2013
First Place, Lowell Quilt Festival (Images), Wall Pieced, 2013
First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Mixed and Other Techniques, 2014
First Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Mainly Pieced, 2013
First Place / Blue Ribbon with a special award for “Best Use of Complementary Color”, Vermont Quilt Festival, 2012
First Place, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Traditional, 2012
First Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Wall Hanging, 2012
First Place, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Mixed Technique, 2003
First Place, St. Andrews Quilt Show, Bed Quilt, Mixed Technique, 2003
Second Place, Houston International Quilt Show, 2019
Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, New Traditions in Textiles, 2018
Second Place, AQS Grand Rapids, Longarm Wall, 2018
Second Place, AQS Virginia Beach, Longarm Wall, 2018
Second Place, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Traditional Quilt, 2017
Second Place, AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Wall Quilt, 2016
Second Place, Northwest Quilting Expo, Freehand Machine Quilting, 2015
Second Place, AQS Quilt Week Syracuse, Wall Quilt, 2015
Second Place, National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Other Quilt, 2015
Second Place, Machine Quilters Showcase, Whole Cloth, 2015
Second Place, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Pieced, 2015
Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, Small Wholecloth, 2014
Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Quilts Among Friends, 2014
Second Place, Georgia Quilt Show, Small Wall Quilt, 2013
Second Place, Quilt Odyssey, Wall Quilts: Pieced, 2012
Second Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Quilts Among Friends, 2012
Third Place, AQS Virginia Beach, Fiber Art Wall, 2018
Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016
Third Place, Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, New Traditions in Textiles, 2017
Third Place, Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, Art and Innovative, 2017
Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2016
Third Place, Home Machine Quilting Show, Art-Innovative, 2016
Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Albuquerque, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2015
Third Place, AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Longarm Wall Quilt, 2014
Third Place, Machine Quilters Exposition East, Solo Artist, 2012
Third Place, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Mixed Technique, 2002
Co-Directors’ Award, A Quilter’s Gathering, 2012
Honorable Mention, AQS Daytona, Quilted Wall 2019
Honorable Mention, Shipshewana Quilt Festival, Mixed Media, 2018
Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Large Machine Quilt, 2017
Honorable Mention, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Pieced Quilt, 2015
Honorable Mention, Road to California Quilt Show, Traditional Wall Other, 2015
Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week, Des Moines, Machine Quilted Wall 2014
Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week, Grand Rapids, Machine Quilted Wall 2014
Honorable Mention, AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Small Wall Quilts 1st Entry, 2014
Honorable Mention, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Pieced Wall Hanging, 2012
Judge’s Choice, Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2014
Judge’s Choice, Home Machine Quilting Show, 2014
Judge’s Choice, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, 2004
Exhibitions
Iowa Quilt Museum, “Pets”, May – September 2024 (Yarn Couching Jackets)
New England Quilt Museum, “Animalia”, September – December 2023 (Yarn Couching Jackets)
A Quilters Gathering, Juried, 2013, 2014
AQS Quilt Week Albuquerque, Juried, 2015
AQS Quilt Week Chattanooga, Juried, 2014, 2015
AQS Quilt Week Daytona Beach, Juried, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
AQS Quilt Week Des Moines, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
AQS Quilt Week Grand Rapids, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018
AQS Quilt Week Lancaster, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019
AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016
AQS Quilt Week Paducah (Fall), Juried, 201,2018
AQS Quilt Week Phoenix, Juried, 2014, 2016
AQS Quilt Week Syracuse, Juried, 2015
Georgia Quilt Show, Juried, 2013
Home Machine Quilting Show, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
Houston International Quilt Festival, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018,2019
Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019
Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, Juried, 2017
Lowell Quilt Festival (Images), Juried, 2013
Machine Quilters Exposition East, Juried, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
Machine Quilters Exposition Midwest, Juried, 2014, 2016, 2017
Machine Quilters Exposition West, Juried, 2011, 2013
Machine Quilters Showcase, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Juried, 2003, 2017
Minnesota Quilter’s Quilt Show, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019,
National Quilting Association Quilt Show, 2002, 2003, 2015
Northwest Quilting Expo, Juried, 2015, 2017
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Juried, 2014, 2017
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
Quilter’s Heritage Celebration, Juried, 2002, 2003, 2004
Quiltfest Destination Savannah, Juried, 2015
Quilt Odyssey, Juried, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018
Road to California Quilt Show, Juried, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Shipshewana Quilt Festival, Juried, 2016, 2018
St. Andrews Bay Quilt Show, 2003
Utah Quilting and Sewing Marketplace, 2017,2018
Vermont Quilt Festival, 2012, 2014
Wisconsin Quilt Expo, Juried, 2017
Publications
Quilting Arts Magazine, Winter 2024: “Yarn Couching: Free Motion to Fine Art”
Curated Quilts, June 2023: “Temperature Quilts”
American Quilter Magazine, July 2019: “Pictorial Yarn Couching with Bethanne Nemesh” and “Song of Summer”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2018: “New and Noteworthy: Solitaire”
American Quilter Magazine, March 2018: “Walk a Creative Path with Bethanne Nemesh”
American Quilter Magazine, January 2018: “Into the Westward Sun”
American Quilter Magazine, July 2017: “Into the Westward Sun”
American Quilter Magazine, May 2017: “The Paisley Peacock”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2017: “Pictographic Quilting” (cover)
Machine Quilting Unlimited, November/December 2016: “Freehand Feathers: From Fast to Fancy”
American Quilter Magazine, November 2016: “The Paisley Peacock”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2016: “Secondary Surprises”
American Quilter Magazine, May 2016: “October Sky”
American Quilter Magazine, March 2016: “October Sky”
American Quilt Society Wall Calendar, 2016: “October Sky”
Machine Quilting Unlimited Wall Calendar, 2016: “The Shell Collector”
International Quilt Festival Quilting Scene, 2015-2016: “The Paisley Peacock”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, November/December 2015: “Fall Freehand Fantasy”
American Quilter Magazine, November 2015: “October Sky”
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, October/November 2015: “October Sky”
Quilting Quarterly, Fall 2015: “October Sky”
On Track! Magazine, Summer 2015: “October Sky” (cover)
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, August/September 2015: “The Paisley Peacock”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, July/August 2015: “The Paisley Peacock”
American Quilter Magazine, July 2015: “October Sky”
American Quilter Magazine, May 2015: “The Shell Collector”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, March/April 2015: “Reaching Back”
American Quilter Magazine, January 2015: “The Shell Collector”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2014: “The Shell Collector”
American Quilter Magazine, May 2014: “Gilding the Arbor”
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, February/March 2014: “The Shell Collector”
Machine Quilting Unlimited, September/October 2013: “Gilding the Arbor”
New Hampshire To Do, April 2013: “Tree of Life”
American Quilter, Fall 2003, Vol. 19, No. 3: “Celtic Crossings: Sampler to Spectacular”
Art Quilt 2005 Weekly Calendar: “Poppies in the Field”