Members Quilt Challenge

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We are thrilled to announce our first Members Challenge!

Thanks to ALL participants! The quilts are fantastic and everybody is a WINNER.

Pieced Star:

1st Place Neptunes Treasures by Clare Fairless of Never Ending Quilting, Medowie, NSW.

A compass is the central jewel of this design and is surrounded by the gentle ebb and flow of fantasy feathers which represent the abundant corals and plant life of the seabed.

2nd Place Feathers 3 by Belinda Betts of Eucalypt Ridge Quilting, Orange, NSW.

I love the combination of green/purple/orange in brights so I decided to try a different group of colouring and toning. Interesting result!

3rd Prize Noughts & Crosses by Jane Monk of Purrfectly Quilted, Grindelwald, TAS

My take on the pieced star using Moda’s “Fresh Air” range of fabrics – so other patterns can reveal themselves.

Wholecloth:

1st Place Butterfly House by Clare Fairless of Never Ending Quilting, Medowie, NSW

Featuring butterflies in a central medallion surrounded by plant life. Imagine being in a butterfly house and looking up at the ceiling.

2nd place Serenity – Lady of the Butterflies by Heather Shanks of Heasha Quilting, Palm Beach, Qld

“Serenity” a butterfly fairy (by Rebecca Balchin) is embellished with silk and Angelina fibres and quilted with metallic and speciality threads.

3rd Prize Chimere by Leona Creenslade of Quandong Quilting, Myrtle Bank, SA

The definition of Chimera according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary is "fanciful conception", "bogey", or "thing of hybrid character". There is no bogey in my quilt, but, in my fanciful conception I see the hybrid character of spirals, both clockwise and anti-clockwise, and a series of 3-D boxes disappearing into infinity. This design is based on an illustration of a variant of the Lingelbach illusion from a book called Eye Tricks by Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber.

Prizes are the same for each category and they are...

1st - $200 worth of fabric from Widebacks Australia http://www.widebacks.com.au/

2nd - 12 month subscription to Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine http://www.apqmagazine.com.au/

3rd - $50 worth of patterns from Lorien Quilting https://www.lorienquilting.com/

You can visit here to view all the entries that were received. There are some fantastic quilts & we certainly appreciated the quality & caliber of our two judges who had to make the tough decisions on this challenge. EVERYONE is a winner for entering!!

We also have a fantastic article on Quilt Judging Demystified by Kathy Adams that might assist you on what a judge might be looking for when assessing your challenge entry!

Last updated Sunday, 20 April 2008

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