Award winners - NZ Quilt Symposium 2015 - part one

I have been back from Symposium for four days and I have just started unpacking.  As promised - the here are the winning quilts.  Photographs have been supplied by the CD Quilt Symposium Manawatu 2015 put together.

WINNERS - GROWING THE PASSION EXHIBITION

PLAYGROUND (YOUNG PERSON UP TO 12 YEARS))

FIRST - Lilly's Garden by Lilly Duncan.

SCHOOLS OUT (NEXT GENERATION 13-18 YEARS)

 



MERIT- Road of Endless Possibility by Kataraina Hakaraia

FIRST - Schools Out by Sarah Royds

 

 3D FLORA AND FAUNA

FIRST  - Ruth Corbet

 ALIVE WITH COLOUR - AMATEUR

MERIT - Off the Floor #1 by Gael O'Donnell

FIRST - Circle the Wagons by Gael O'Donnell

 ALIVE WITH COLOUR - PROFESSIONAL

MERIT - In the Corner of the Garden by Rosemary Rush

FIRST - Nightwatch by Anna Prussing

 

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

BEST AMATUER - The French Connection by Nancy Woodney

BEST PROFESSIONAL - Sticky Fly Papers by Margaret Rogerson
 

OVERALL BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
Kisses for my Daughter by Donna Cumming



CHOP AND CHANGE

FIRST -  Nascondino by Jeanette Orr

 

GAMES UP 

FIRST - Hopscotch by Alison Laurence

 HOT OF THE PRESS

MERIT - Quilters Rock by Irene Smith

MERIT -  Lost in Transit by Mary Williams

FIRST - Still being followed by Ruth Wheeler

 

GROWING THE PASSION - AMATUER

MERT - Eclipse by Leanne Kenagh

 

FIRST - Simply Childs Play by Lee-Ann Newton

 GROWING THE PASSION - PROFESSIONAL

MERIT - Fabric Flower Passion by Ruth Wheeler

FIRST -  Exuberance by Jean Mclean

INSPIRED FIBRES

MERIT - Canna Tropicana by Heather McLean

MERIT -  No Sew HST's by Heather Beaven



 

MERIT - Touch the Stars by Griet Lombard.

Unfortunately no photograph of this quilt has been provided on the

exhibition disk.

 

IT'S A SMALL WORLD (miniature quilts)

 

MERIT - Dwaft Star by Christine Singleton

 

FIRST -  Opulent and Elegant by Valda Sutton



LESS IS MORE - AMATEUR

MERIT -  Stand my ground by Gael O'Donnell

FIRST - Ode to Tron by Sue Pope

 LESS IS MORE - PROFESSIONAL

MERIT - Improvisation by Fyvie Murray

FIRST - Rural 1 by Robyn Croft







Due to the large number of photographs I am downloading, I have split the winning quilts over two posts.

Exhibition NZ Quilt Symposium - Club Challenge

A club challenge was issued to the clubs involved with organising this Symposium.  

The exhibit synopsis: Side by Side, together as one.

Consider portraying what is special about your area.  Quilts formed a QSM2015 club display for the convention center (where the main symposium exhibition was held).

Each club was issued a colour for their theme.  Im not quite sure whether this was random or they used their club colours and each club presented three small quilts.

Rangitikei Quilters - Marton - Turquoise their theme colour.    Challenge award went to Joyce Smith.

Cotton on Qulters - Whanganui - Green their theme colour.  Challenge award went to Janice Dowdeswell.

Town & Country Quilters - Levin - Yellow their theme colour

Rose City Quilters - Palmerston North - Red theme colour. 

Close up of the Dianne Southey's entry - for readers outside of New Zealand, this quilt gives you an idea of where (how close) all the other organising clubs are to Palmerston North.  Very cool. 

Foxy Quilters - Foxton - Purple their theme colour.

In the Gallery next door to the convention center was another quilt exhibtion called Living Colours.

I love colour and have photographed my favourites.

Joy of Life by Roxanne Murphy - Australia

Madder and friends - Catherine Gowthorpe - United Kingdom

Autumn Colours - Caroline Sharkey- Australia

Big Red - Susan Mathews - Australia

Ordinary Folk are amazing - Sue Duffy - Australia

Bountiful - Phyllis Sullivan - Australia

Colourful New Zealand - Mathea Daunheimer - New Zealand

Indigo Garden - Deborah Boschert - USA

Flight of the bumblebee - Neroli Henderson - Australia

The flower looks a lot reder in this photograph but it is the detail I wanted you to see.

What a visual feast we (quilters attending the symposium) have had over the last week.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at these quilts.  If you google the quilt and artist's names you will find more detail about their fantastic quilts.

Shirley

Exhibtion NZ Quilt symposium continuted

I've arrived home safely and had an afternoon cat nap.  I really enjoyed this sympsoium, the visual colour and design plus the hours spent in the merchants mall and with friends.

My Special place by Heather McOnie.  This piece includes silk, hessian, muslin, chiffon, felt,tulle, beads, flax flowers, macrame and wool.  Wow, I think this piece is stunning and well executed.

No Sew HST's (half square triangles) by Helen Beaven. Merit award in the Inspired Fibres section.

Very clever - its all felted.

Moroccan Spice by Gaye Downes. Beautifully woven.  This piece (entered in the miniature section) has been accepted to tour New Zealand in the Suitcase Exhibition.

I managed to get a photograph with the designer/maker Gaye Downes.

Three brothers by Sarah Ward.  I cried as I read through some of the print. This is a quilted collage of excerpts  from WW1 written by her Grandfather and two brothers to NZ family.  This Precious quilt has been selected for the touring suitcase exhibition.

Light through the trees by Jill Bowman.  Won merit award in the out and about section.

Lime and Mango by Sarah Ward. Won merit award in the out and about section.  I love her use of colour.

I should explain that the "out and about" section in this exhibition was for quilts that had either been displayed in other exhibitions or published in either written form or displayed via the internet.

The darkening sky by Sonja Revel.  Hard to tell from this photograph  - there is a lot of different thread colour used to enhance her piecing.  Check out the picture below.

Hopscotch by Alison Laurence. First in the "Games Up" section and also selected for the touring Suitcase exhibition.  I think we can all related to this quilt.

Quilters Rock by Irene Smith.  Merit award in the "Hot of the Press" section.

Lost in Transit by Mary Williams.  Merit award in 'Hot of the Press" section.

Still being followed by Ruth Wheeler.  First in the Hot of the Press section.

Quilts in this catagory had to be inspried or provoked into thought by page 5 of any newspaper. 

Nascondino by Jeanette Orr - first in the Chop and Change catagory.

My Kind of Garden by Sheryl Anicich.  Sheryl is famous for these flowers.

Arch my Eyes by Adrienne Reid.  Won Best Theme Interpretation.  Great use of colour.

Bricks with Brown Garuda by Catherine Croucher.  Catherine uses recycled fabrics/clothing and furnishing fabrics.  Hand quilted.

I like the use of slightly wavy lines.  Gives this piece additional texture.

If you like bling and crazy patchwork you would have photographed this quilt.  Sew Charming by Linda McCutcheon.  Check out the detail below.

Christchurch Rebuilt by Kathleen Burford.  The different visual textures appeal to me.

Origami Duet by Sandra Clark and Myself.  This quilt has been accepted for the touring suitcase exhibition.  We had a bit of fun making this.  The background has been quilted using a twin needle onto furnishing fabric.  Each piece of colour has been folded from a circle and hand appliqued onto the background.

This is the last of my photographs.  Over the next week I hope to post pictures from the exhibition CD.

There is so much more to show you.

Shirls