Calls for entries - competitions, exhibition, textile art prizes

QUILT NSW

2024 SUITCASE CHALLENGE - BLACK and WHITE

You can use solid colours or prints but they must read as black and white (no grey, cream or other colours are permitted). As always, your quilt must be 40cm x 40cm and made of three layers.

More information and the conditions of entry are on the QuiltNSW website.

TEXTILE FEST 

ONE RED THREAD ART PRIZE 2024:

‘I SEE RED’

The competition/exhibition

• is open to fibre, thread and textile artists  
• is a non-acquisitive competition and exhibition
• accepts entries representing any use of fibre, threads and textiles andencourages the artist to explore traditional and non-traditional practices
• the focus of this textile art prize and exhibition is Colour, Composition, Creativity and Craftsmanship
• textiles encompasses fibre, thread, stitching, quilting, embroidery and includes fabric, fibre, felt, wool, wire, paper, even metal
•  works to be received no later than 14 June 2024
•  judging and prizes will be awarded at the Sydney Quilt and Craft Fair 2024

Conditions of entry and registration open on the Textile Fest website 

QUILT NSW

2024 JUNIOR & YOUTH BLOCK CHALLENGE

The Challenge is to encourage as many young people as possible to make a block to be displayed at our 2024 exhibition.

The block can be 10 to 12 inches square and there is no limit to the colours, materials, method of construction or design that can be used.  Any technique or medium is permitted, provided that blocks contain a stitched component (either hand or machine stitched).

All the information you need, and the conditions of entry can be found on the QuiltNSW website. 

Entries close Friday 2 August 2024. 

QUILT NSW

2025 SPECIAL CATEGORY - LOG CABIN AND ALL ITS VARIATIONS

Have you started making your special entry for the 2025 Sydney Quilt Show? Don't delay, it's time to look for inspiration and get started on your own log cabin quilt.

A Log Cabin block is made of strips that build upon or wrap around a centre. The centre of the Log Cabin does not have to be a square and may be offset. Any technique or style is welcome. Traditional quilts or modern interpretations that use any technique or style are welcome.

Note that no side of the quilt is to be smaller than 120cm and no larger than 180cm. Quilts must be made of three layers.

The Log Cabin special category is open to individuals including, subject to the conditions of entry, entrant's quilt top quilted by another.

Juniors, groups and members who are two person collaborators are encouraged to submit a Log Cabin quilt in their usual category.

Individual entrants are eligible to enter Best Traditional or Best Contemporary Awards.

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