Patchwork & Quilting UK – August 2019

24 British Patchwork & Quilting AUGUST 2019

FEATURE // national quilt championships

Next up in size is the Cot Quilt category. A surprising lack

of entries in this category for some reason but the winner

was not less justifi ed; what Joë Bennison can do with a plain

piece of fabric is second to none. ‘Teddydore’ featured a

wholecloth teddy bear quilted on Radiance fabrics for her

new grandson, Theodore. Joë also picked up the Fran Jones

award for Hand-Guided Longarm Machine Quilting.

As already mentioned, fi rst place in the Small Wall Hanging

category was won by ‘Exquisite Corpse 0.2: Parrot vs

Armadillo'. Second place was awarded to Birgit Schüller

with ‘Never Underestimate the Small’, a wall hanging made

up from small scraps Birgit might otherwise have thrown

away. Third place went to Jane Mogford and ‘Elephant’ which

combined fabric collage and machine embroidery.

The Large Wall Hanging category was won by Simone

Steuxner with her quilt ‘Rainbow of Hope’. Simone’s design

was free motion quilted and sparkled with about 1,500

Swarovski crystals. The quilt also won the award for Machine

Quilting. Second place went to Annelize Littlefair and ‘Oh

Coquette, Ruffl ing Some Feathers?’, which was a wholecloth

Above: ‘Flamingo

Reflections’, Isabelle

Hawley. First place

Under 16 Quilts. Left:

‘My Favourite Things’,

Trudy Smethurst and

Chaucer Quilters. Third

place Group Quilts

‘Circles of Life’, Andrea Ashwell.

First place Wearable Art

Detail, ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’, Sue

Homan. Award for Hand Quilting

‘Water Views’, Lillia May Bowsher. Second place

Under 16 Quilts

‘My Baltimore Quilt’, Brenda Ford. Award for Hand Appliqué