BERNINA Best of Show & Special Awards
For more information about the quilts, download the Sydney Quilt Show 2018 catalogue (2.4MB PDF)
All prize winners are offered a free quilt appraisal by QuiltNSW.
BERNINA Best of Show
After the Last Sky
232 x 207 cm: Piecing, appliqué and machine quilting
Design Source: Based on a photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy (with consent)
Statement: 14th August 2013, Egyptian security and the army opened fire on supporters of President Morsi occupying the square of Raba'a el Adawiya. Between 817 - 2,000 were killed in the massacre.
Best of Southern Stars
Star Talk
Statement:
The Night Sky and Magnitude of Stars seen from a Desert Landscape just blows your mind! The Southern Hemisphere offers some spectacular sky, such as the Magellanic Clouds. A Star Talk 'On Country' by Aboriginal Elders is a MUST!
Best Traditional Quilt
Best Traditional Quilt (Professional)
Sponsors:
Perivale Gutermann
Scissorman and
The Remnant Warehouse
Reflections of Eden
Jenny Rofe
Best Contemporary Quilt
Excellence in Quilting Awards
Narelle Grieve Hand Quilting Award (Amateur)
Sponsors: Mr Ian Grieve
QuiltNSW and MiniJumbuk
Georgian Bedcover
Narelle Birchall
Stationary Machine Quilting Award
(Amateur)
Sponsors:
Perivale Gutermann
Olfa and MiniJumbuk
Stag
Laura-Mae West
Stationary Machine Quilting Award
(Professional)
Sponsor:
Horn Australia
Feathers and Pearls
Linda Crouch
Other Awards
Best Hand Made Award
Sponsors:
The Home Patch
Pieces to Treasure
and Maytime Designs
Red Squares Old mending of new fabric #3
Stephanie Knudsen
Viewers' Choice
First Prize
Sponsors:
Mid Coast Fabrics Online
and MiniJumbuk
Floral Odyssey
Anne Blytheman
Design Source: Pattern by Yoko Saito
Photography by Mike Russell
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