FOQ 2019 The Quilts

As always, there were some amazing quilts on display, and it was impossible to see all of them in just one day. Up until recently, I would go for all 4 days, and still managed to miss things! Anyway, here are a selection of the winning quilts, if you click on the pictures to enlarge them you'll be able to see them in greater detail. I've indcluded the information for each category that was included in the competition catalogue. 

Two Person - sponsored by the Craft Cotton Company
For quilts made by two makers using any technique, to include quilting (hand, machine, long-arm or a combination). Participants must declare whether their quilt is the result of pure collaboration or was professionally long armed. The services of the same professional quilter may be used by more than one entrant in this category. 

J028 - Who Will Tell the Bees 
Mary Palmer and Anne Kiely
​This quilt also won the Best in Show award. ​

Art Quilts - sponsored by Madeira
Quilts with both a strong visual impact and a high quality of execution designed to be displayed as artwork and communicating an idea, emotion or concept through the medium of textile and stitch

D059 - Vertex
Betty Busby

​Traditional Quilts - sponsored by Clover
For quilts using a traditional design or pattern. Quilts may be wholecloth, pieced and quilted, applique and quilted, or a combination of piecing, applique and quilting. Quilting may be hand, machine or a combination. 

F035 - Pennsylvania
​Gwenfai Rees Griffiths

Pictorial Quilts - sponsored by Juki
Quilts depicting a scene or subject eg people, animals, flowers etc as the main body of the quilt. A figurative or represntational piece.

K060 - De Oriente a occidente la mas 
Juana Castaneda Romera

Group Quilts - sponsored by Bombay Stores
A single quilt made by more than two makers.

G002 - Over the hills and far away
Cowslip Workshops

Modern Quilts - sponsored by Pfaff
For quilts that are minimalist with clean, modern design and using a strong visual impact. They often use asymmetry, improvisational piecing, a reinterpretation of traditional blocks or the lack of a visible block structure. A feeling of space is often achieved by the use of negative space.  They are machine or hand quilted in a way that is sympathetic to the design.

H049 - Fractured Circles
​Robyn Fahy

Miniature quilts - sponsored by babylock
Maximum size of 30cms on the longest size. Use any technique or combination of techniques. In a photograph of the finished piece (with no indication of scale) the miniature should look like a full size quilt or wall hanging.

M030 - Embrace this day
​Sandra Newton

Quilt Creations
All entries in this category must qualify as clothing, wearable art or three-dimentional pieces. 3D items (this does not include double sided quilts) must have length, breadth and depth. This can be made by an individual or a group. 

N008 - Chest
​Lynne Barker

​Novice quilts - sponsored by Cotton Patch
Entrants to this category should have been quilting for fewer than 3 years. Pieces entered into this category should have been completed within the last 2 years and must not have been previously exhibited as part of any event, exhibition or gallery. Entrants for this new category should not hold a formal qualification in a textiles otr related subject. 

C021 - Pieces of memories 1
​Katarzyna Plesniak

Contemporary quilts - sponsored by Janome
Quilts that draw on the traditions of quilt making through piecing, applique, or wholecloth, but have an original approach. Makers may use non-traditional fabrics, fabric printing and dyeing, embellishment and unusual construction methods. Quilts should have an original design and demonstrate sure use of colour. They may be sewn by hand, machine or any combination. 

E106 - Fractal
​Claudia Pfiel

The Quilters' Guild Challenge - sponsored by Bernina
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This category is open to all members of the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles and all European Guilds which are part of the European Quilt Association. The theme can be interpreted literally, metaphorically, poetically - as widely as the maker wishes. Quilts should reflect the theme for 2019 - "Four Decades - One Moment"

B003 - Forty Shades of Green
​Kate Dowty

Young Embroiderer/Quilter - sponsored by Brother
​Theme for 2019 - "Memories"
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Quilts of any size, using any technique, made by young quilters/embroiderers, in the following age ranges:
a)5-9 years
b)10-13 years
c) 14-18 years

Young Quilter/Embroiderer 5-9 yrs
Q007 - Rainbow Fairy Memories
​Beatrice Varley

Young Quilter/Embroiderer 10-13 yrs
R011 - Hermanas porel mundo
​Naroa y Nahia Sevilla

Young Quilter/Embroiderer 14-18 yrs
S007 - My Memory Timeline
​Kyle Long

Schools and Groups of Young Quilters - sponsored by Brother
Theme for 2019 - "Memories"

Quilts of any size, using any technique, made by school children or groups of children, in the following categories:
a) Primary School/ Young Quilter Groups (ages 5-11)
b) Secondary School/ Young Quilter Groups (ages 12-16)

Primary Schools and Groups of Young Quilters 

Y001 - Memories, the Mind is a Puzzle
​Stanley Brook End School

Secondary Schools and Groups of Young Quilters

Z005 - Years over the sunset
Atelier de Couture Magique