Challenge Theme 2018 – Blue and White
May 9, 2018 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
Challenge 2018: 
Every year Canberra Quilters has a quilt challenge theme category at the exhibition. For 2018 the theme chosen by the main committee is ‘Blue & White’.
Members can choose to respond to the theme any way they like in their quilt as long as it meets the size requirements of 70cm x 50cm, portrait or landscape orientation. The challenge quilts generally travel as a group to other quilt groups during the subsequent year.
You are invited to make a quilt in the challenge format, incorporating the idea of ‘Blue & White’. You may choose to make it from all the shades and tones of blue, and white. Or you may focus on-
- the sea /ocean / sky
- something in the garden
- blue and white china (Blue Willow, Delftware)
- gemstones (blue diamond, sapphire)
- bluesy music
- choose an appropriate block or
- play on the words
You have many paths you could follow in making your quilt.
Enter your items in the Annual Members Exhibition, held in August 2018. You have until June to submit an entry. The entry pack will be available in mid 2018 with Connecting Threads and online.
The challenge theme for 2019 has also been selected: “Off the Sheep’s Back”. So get ready for August 2019!
Exhibition Raffle and Viewers’ Choice Results
August 14, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition, raffle | By Liz Rose
The CQ Exhibition Raffle was drawn yesterday at 4pm. Here are the results:
First drawn ticket 4255, Kris Banks. Kris chose the quilt
Second drawn ticket 965, Sue Robinson. Sue chose the Bernina sewing machine
Third drawn ticket 1858, Anne Duffy. Anne receives the hamper of quilters tools and supplies.
The Viewers’ Choice votes have been tallied and here are the results:
Quilts – number 66 Walled Garden by Dorothy Clee
Challenge/ Tiny Treasure – number 129 Seventeen by Carolyn Sullivan
Creative Clothing – number 138 Jeans East by Wendy Saclier
Quilt show is open & results of judging
August 10, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
The Canberra Quilters Members’ Exhibition is now open, as part of the Craft and Quilt Fair. It runs 10-13 August, 10am until 4.30pm each day at EPIC, Flemington Road, Mitchell ACT.
Don’t forget there are revised traffic arrangements because of the light rail construction. Here is a link to the Craft Fair website showing the changes. There is a map you can download.
Please come along to check out all the quilts and clothing exhibited, the sales room and also the craft fair.
Here are the results of the judging (long post):
SPECIAL AWARDS
Bernina Best of Show
80 – Iggy, Bronwyn Hill (glimpse in banner)
Bernina Amateur Encouragement Award
47 – Heliconia, Pat Parker
Bernina Student Award
143 – Twisted Circles, Matthew Bielenberg
Best Use of Colour
80 – Iggy, Bronwyn Hill
Retaining the Tradition
115 – Radiant Terrazzo, Alison Zanchetto
Modern Quilting
87- Kross Kut Kaffe, Mary Kennedy & Modern Quilters
Excellence in Hand Quilting
44 – Rows, Rows and more Rows, Karin Malmberg
Excellence in Machine Quilting (domestic)
28 – My Tangled Garden, Jenny Bowker
Excellence in Machine Quilting (frame)
87 – Kross Kut Kaffe, Mary Kennedy & Modern Quilters, quilted by Clementine O’Sullivan
Best Use of Embellishment
66 – Walled Garden, Dorothy Clee
Best Use of Batik Fabric
79 – Faces of India, Helen Godden
Margaret Armistead Award
8 – Desert Stars, Helen Druett
Allan Armistead Award
141 – A Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Anna McNamara
CATEGORY AWARDS
Large Quilt (non-professional)
1st– 16, Fleur, Lyn Keogh
2nd– 5, Noughts and Crosses, Leah Clark-Vial
3rd– 7, Breakaway, Margaret Donaldson
Highly Commended- 12, Long Time Gone, Jan Hastings
Large Quilt (professional)
1st– 28, My Tangled Garden, Jenny Bowker
2nd– 32, Always from Here, Nobuko Miyake
3rd – 30, Put your Happy Pants on and Smile, Sylvia Clough
Small Quilt (non-professional)
1st– 47, Heliconia, Pat Parker
2nd– 34, Happiness in Yunnan Rice Fields, Virginia Buring
3rd– 52, Circles of Time, Nicole Shipway
Highly Commended- 38, Earthly Delights, Margaret Donaldson
Small Quilt (professional)
1st– 60, Wheat Fields, Dianne Firth
2nd– 62, Oh my Dahlia, Lynda Nikolovski
3rd– 64, Square Dance Variation, Alison Zanchetto
Mixed Media Quilt (open)
1st– 66, Walled Garden, Dorothy Clee
2nd– 67, Ormiston Gorge, Helen Godden
3rd– 65, Untitled, Buffy Beggs
Highly Commended- 69, Storm in the Desert, Kerry Graf
Art Quilt (open)
1st– 80, Iggy, Bronwyn Hill
2nd– 79, Faces of India, Helen Godden
3rd– 76, Weather Warning, Meg Cowey
Highly Commended- 84, Affinity1, Carolyn Sullivan
Group Quilt (open)
1st– 85, Improv with Geometry, Meg Cowey
2nd– 87, Kross Kut Kaffe, Mary Kennedy & Modern Quilters
3rd– 89, The Blue and White Quilt, Helen Rose
Commercially-Quilted Quilt (open)
1st– 115, Radiant Terrazzo, Alison Zanchetto
Quilted by Altogether Quilting- Helen Smith
2nd– 111, Just One More, Paulette Rigter
Quilted by Willowpatch- Fran Wilson
3rd– 109, Scheherazade’s Garden, Jo Anne Pulko
Quilted by Altogether Quilting- Helen Smith
Highly Commended- 103, Birds on the Wing, Kath Hunt
Quilted by History in the Making- Carolyn Conlan
Challenge Quilt (open)
Theme – In your Prime
1st– 128, Red Star Constellation #71, Helen Rose
2nd– 127, Fascination with Primes, Elizabeth Rose
3rd– 125, Older, Wiser, Happier, Kay Provins
Highly Commended- 116, Uncle Jack’s Prime Ribs, Dell Armistead
Tiny Treasure Quilt (open)
1st– 133, No Matter what the Weather, Wendy Saclier
2nd– 132, Whatever Happens…Happens, Andrea McMillan
Creative Clothing (open)
1st– 138, Jeans East, Wendy Saclier
2nd– 135, Japanese Blues, Patricia Butron
3rd– 137, My Black Skirt, Louise Fredericks
Highly Commended- 140, Bloomin’ Flowers, Donna Sunderland
Quilts by children (primary)
1st– 144, Pandamonium, Matthew Bielenberg
2nd– 142, Year of the Ninja, Timothy Bielenberg
3rd– 141, A Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Anna McNamara
Highly Commended- 143, Twisted Circles, Matthew Bielenberg
Quilts by youth (secondary)
1st– 145, El Cactus, Kristina Butron
Quilt show opens tomorrow
August 9, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
The Canberra Quilters Members’ Exhibition opens tomorrow, as part of the Craft and Quilt Fair. It runs 10-13 August, 10am until 4.30pm each day at EPIC, Flemington Road, Mitchell ACT.
Don’t forget there are revised traffic arrangements because of the light rail construction. Here is a link to the Craft Fair website showing the changes. There is a map you can download.
Please come along to check out all the quilts and clothing exhibited, the sales room and also the craft fair.
Here is a glimpse of what you will see…
Star Link by Pamela Brockwell
Sandstorm by Cassandra Philpot
All Squared Away by Mary Kennedy
You can purchase a DVD or CD showing all the entries in the show at the main desk at the quilt show.
Images courtesy of Janet Cruise
Quilt show opens in two days…10 August
August 8, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
The Canberra Quilters Members’ Exhibition opens in two days, as part of the Craft and Quilt Fair. It runs 10-13 August, 10am until 4.30pm each day at EPIC, Flemington Road, Mitchell ACT.
Don’t forget there are revised traffic arrangements because of the light rail construction. Here is a link to the Craft Fair website showing the changes. There is a map you can download.
Please come along to check out all the quilts and clothing exhibited, the sales room and also the craft fair.
Here is a glimpse of what you will see…
Watching by Dorothy Clee
Can you see what I see? by Laraine Culnane
What’s up Pussy Cat? by Lynda Nikolovski
Quilt in banner is Desert Retreat by Kerry Graf
You can purchase a DVD or CD showing all the entries in the show at the main desk at the quilt show.
Images courtesy of Janet Cruise
Exhibition Delivery Day coming up on Saturday 29 July
July 27, 2017 | Posted in Cook premises, CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
This Saturday, 29 July, is the day members deliver the items entered in the annual members’ exhibition. The delivery venue is the CQ room at the Cook Community Hub, between 9am and 4.30pm.
Please be aware there is some maintenance going on at the site starting this week, but it is not close to our building:
- Thursday 27th pm Install Temporary Fencing – Pollution set up- mark out saw cutting
- Friday 28th am Saw cutting of all concrete / pavers areas / concrete pathways / UST area
- Monday 31st start exploration and removal of oil / vent / boiler room feed lines / UST pump out and removal
- Tuesday 1st finish UST removal
- Wait for test results before remediation works commence
Exhibition News – Craft Fair Friend now available
July 23, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition, sponsor news | By Liz Rose
The Canberra Quilters exhibition is part of the Craft and Quilt Fair at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC), from 10-13 August.
Expertise Events (a CQ sponsor) have released the Craft Fair Friend booklet for this event. It is the preview magazine, with details of what’s on, special offers, workshop timetables. You can download a copy here.
(Image in banner is this year’s raffle quilt by Jenny Bowker and Kath Hunt, quilted by Fran Wilson of Willowpatch through Calico Patch at Federation Square, Gungahlin) Tickets will be available at the exhibition. Raffle is drawn on 13 August at 4pm, at the exhibition.
Exhibition Entry Deadline Extended to June 30 2017
June 21, 2017 | Posted in Call for Entries, CQ Exhibition, events, Exhibition | By admin
The entry deadline for entering this year’s Canberra Quilter’s Annual Members Exhibition has been extended to (postmarked) 30 June 2017.
To download the entry pack click here.
This extension of deadline will not impact any other Exhibition dates.
Remember, you can submit a quilt for display only (also known as “not for judging”) in the Exhibition. We strongly encourage all members to consider submitting a quilt (even if it’s just for display). You never know, seeing your quilt might just be the catalyst for someone else to start quilting (and we all need there to be more quilters in the world!).
Exhibition information pack and forms available online now
May 4, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
The exhibition pack is available online, here on the CQ site. It includes individual versions of the forms to download as well as the information pack and the sales room brochure.
Entry deadline is 14 June 2017. You don’t have to have completed your quilt or creative clothing garment to enter, but you will need to finish it by delivery day on 29 July.
Exhibition Flyer Competition
March 4, 2017 | Posted in CQ Exhibition | By Liz Rose
The Canberra Quilters Member’s Exhibition is approaching in August and we’d love for you to help us promote the event. Let us know where you have displayed / released your flyer. This year we’re offering a prize to the person (or persons) who can get a photo of their flyer (pictured above) the furthest geographical (as the crow flies) place from Canberra.
The competition is open to all Canberra Quilters Inc members. Prize will be awarded at the September Canberra Quilters Meeting. So get your thinking caps on and get out there and start snapping photos of your flyer! Entries to be emailed to publicity officer
Small print: Winners will be decided by the Exhibition Committee. Judges decision is final and discussion will not be entered into. Closing date is 7 August 2017.
(Image in banner & on flyer is this year’s raffle quilt by Jenny Bowker and Kath Hunt, quilted by Fran Wilson of Willowpatch through Calico Patch at Federation Square, Gungahlin)
