Best of Show & Special Awards

Best of Show

Bernina Australia

 

Best of Show: Serenity by Wendy Smith

Serenity (207cm x 207cm)

Wendy Smith

The quilt's name comes from the amount of pleasure received during the hand-quilting process.

This is almost a form of meditation.

Click for detail images: Hand quilted rose and centre panel

 

Special Awards

Down Under Quilts
Best Use of Colour

Sponsor:

Georgia on my Mind by Marina Shadnidze

Georgia on my Mind

Marina Shadnidze

Retaining the Tradition Award

My Baltimore by Shirley Gibson

My Baltimore

Shirley Gibson


 

Awards for Excellence in Quilting

Excellence in
Hand Quilting

Sponsor: Oz Quilts & The Quilters' Guild of NSW

Serenity by Wendy Smith

Serenity

Wendy Smith

Excellence in Amateur Hand Quilting

Sponsor:
ThimbleLady

Seed Pods by Amanda Daly

I Love Quilting #3

Maree Gebhardt

Excellence in Domestic Machine Quilting

Sponsor:
Horn Australia

Beaute Bronze by Rachelle Denneny

Beaute Bronzee

Rachelle Denneny

 


 

Encouragement Awards

Amateur Domestic
Machine Quilting Encouragement Award

Sponsor:
The Patchwork Heart

Nostalgia by Kristin Kell

Nostalgia

Kristin Kell

Bernina Amateur
Encouragement Award

 

Sponsor:
Bernina Australia

Michel's Mushies by Denise Griffiths

Michel's Mushies

Denise Griffiths

Contemporary Art Quilt Encouragement Award

Sponsor:
Interweave Press/
Quilting Arts Magazine

Seed Pods by Amanda Daly

Seed Pods

Amanda Daly

Bernina
Junior Quiltmaker Encouragement Award

Sponsor:
Bernina Australia

Anything Goes by Zoe James

Anything Goes

Zoe James


 

Viewers' Choice

 

First Prize

Sponsor:
Handmade Magazine

The Man from Snowy River by Helen Godden

The Man from
Snowy River

Helen Godden

 

Also awarded Hangers' Prize sponsored by Caroline Sharkey

 

Second Prize

Sponsor:
Charles Parsons

Wade's Quilt by Rhonda Pearce

Wade's Quilt

Rhonda Pearce

 


 

Photography by Bard Haerland

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