Each year QuiltNSW holds a challenge. The quilts are premiered at the Annual General Meeting and then form part of a travelling suitcase exhibition. Please contact the Challenge Coordinator if you would like to reserve the 2020 challenge From these Curtains or the 2020 challenge Our Environment.
2021 Challenge: Ruby
The theme for 2021 Suitcase Challenge is Ruby – as confirmed at the 2020/2021 QuiltNSW AGM.
Conditions of Entry available here
Entry Form is available here
The 2020 Suitcase Challenge theme was Our Environment. The finished size of each quilt is 40cm x 40cm.
Congratulations to the prize winners. First prize is a BERNINA sewing machine supported by BERNINA Australia.
- FIRST PRIZE: Me and Murphy by Sheila Beer
- SECOND PRIZE + VIEWERS CHOICE (tied): Mulga Burning by Linden Lancaster
- THIRD PRIZE + VIEWERS CHOICE (tied): Landlines by Jill Rumble
- JUDGES’ COMMENDATION: Renewal by Brenda Gael Smith
Sheila Beer Linden Lancaster Jill Rumble Brenda Gael Smith Jane Gibson Tracey Grisold Catherine Porter Andrea Beattie Wendy Nutt Jessica Wheelahan Catherine Babidge Jennifer Kirkby Jill Rumble Beryl Colley Tonia Barton Dorothy Masterton Glenys Wallbridge Lynn Hewitt Roslyn Moules Stephanie Knudsen Bernice Krige Sue Dennis Evelyn Gray Jennifer Ramsay Linda Butcher Kay Haerland Catherine Woodward Jennifer Stringer Jennifer Stringer Penelope Erikson Isabella Klompe
Challenge Galleries
Click on the links for quilt galleries of the following challenges:
- 2019 From these curtains
- 2018 Running Away with the Amish
- 2017 Remember
- 2016 Repurposed, Recycled, Reloved
- 2015 Colour Collision
- 2014 Mini Modern
- 2013 Hexagon Hype
- 2012 Pearl
- Fertile Imagination
- 2011 Purple & Yellow
- 2010 Spot the Spots
- 2009 What Tickles Your Fancy
- 2008 Coast and Country
- 2007 25th Anniversary Calendar Challenge