Remarkable Symposium 2011, Queenstown

The following photos are for those who did not manage to get to symposium. These are some of the winning quilts, I’m sorry they are not in any order. All images are clickable to see more detail, enjoy!

Viewers Choice and Excellence in Machine Quilting Domestic
 – Kapiti – Chris Kenna

Jeanette Gillies – Merit

Tania Nyboer – Stroll in the Park – Amateur Traditional Excellence

Camilla Watson – Garden for a Minimalist Apartment Professional Art Excellence

Camilla Watson – Custard Square – Suitcase Award

Clare Smith – City Map – Suitcase and Merit Awards
Clare Smith – A change in the Weather – Merit Award

Alison Laurence, In A Flash – Merit

Rosemary Rush, Retro Razmatazz – Remarkable Use of Colour

Griet Lombard, Block-a-day Therapy – Excellence Professional Innovative

detail
Robin Halverson, Low Tide – Merit

Gael O’Donnell, Currahee – Excellence Bed Quilt

Ansa Breytenbach, Te Timatanga (The Beginning)
Best of Show

Detail
Helen Beaven, Painted Chocolate Blocks
Excellence Amateur Innovative

Liz McKenzie, Gondola Over Wakatipu – Suitcase
and Merit Awards

MaryAnn Georgiou, Herakles The Labours of a Quilter
Merit and 2nd Viewers Choice

Amanda Hasselman, For Freedom – Merit

reverse side

Juliet Fitness, Merino Muster, Dont forget the Dog – Merit

Natalie Murdoch, Pack up your troubles
in an old Kete – Winner ANZAC Challenge

Jean McLean, Spirit of the Gum – Suitcase Award

Lesley O’Rourke, Celtic Wave – Excellence in Machine
Quilting – Long Arm Computerised

Philip M Ward/ Quarryburn Quilting, And then came Colour
Excellence Commercially quilted – quilting
Mary Fletcher, Floral Boquets – Merit

Mary Fletcher, Sweet William – Professional Traditional Excellence

Debby Williams, Starlight Sonata Opus 8
Miniature Excellence

Debby Williams/Barbara Paton, Citrus Sorbet
Group/collaborative excellence

Barbara June Paton, Bushfire –
Excellence in Machine Quilting Long Arm Computerised 

Fyvie Murray, Baltimore Album VI with Stars – Merit
Wendy Ward, Michael’s Quilt – Merit Award

Wendy Ward, A Woman’s Place – Merit Award and Suitcase Award

Wendy Ward, The Raven, Winner Fibrelicious Challenge

Chris Tait, This is the Story of a Girl – Judges Award
Barbara Kaverman, Texas Depths of Field – Merit

Meryl Caudwell, Flowers from Ricky – Merit

Marge Hurst, In my Retirement – Best Traditional Quilt

Donna Cumming, Africa Excellence Comercially Quilted top/piecing Award

Barbara Bilyard – Merit

Heather McLean – Hellebore Sampler – Amateur Art Excellence

Lyn Ogle, A Day’s Catch – Best Non-Traditional Quilt
Ruth Wheeler – Winner Remarkables Challenge

Heather Harding, Welsh Traditions – Excellence in hand Quilting
Suzet Pont – Entwined – Merit

The following quilts were not prize winners but were stunning

Fyvie Murray, Balimore Album VII
Robyn Parkinson, Boned Corset
Janice Dowdeswell, Delphinium I
Merrilyn George – Two is Company, Three’s a Crowd
Heather Harding, Feathered Circles(Miniature) – Suitcase
Jenny Tayler Pink and Green

Chris Kenna Bronze Feathers
Jeanie O’Sullivan – Albert Picks Roses for Victoria

Griet Lombard, Sunset at Waitarere Beach
Alison Laurence – Journey South
Barbara Kaverman – Once in a Blue Moon
Jenny Tayler – Rainbow Starburst

Finishing Projects

Gosh has it really been this long since I have posted eeekkk. The blogs I have been reading seem to be posting pictures of things they have recently completed, so who am I to buck the trend here are some recently completed pieces to  be exhibited at the Festival of Colour in Wanaka next week as part of the COOTS (Central Otago Outside the Square) group exhibition called “A Common Thread”. This series of work I call “Home and Soul Series’. The last one is very large and the photo has some glare on it. This next piece is my contribution to the raffle. We had to make something to go into a basket for a raffle prize. 


The pictures below are two recently completed projects, one a glasses case using Wessex embroidery taught by Gay Eaton at a workshop





And these are of my recently completed Hussif. I have been a stitcher and sewer for so long and have finally made this to carry all my necessary tools.

Outside

Inside

Partially closed

Fully closed (front)