The Australian Machine Quilting Association Inc is thrilled to be able to offer our second show! This time it is in conjuction with the

Australian Machine Quilting Festival

CATEGORIES

Note: Overall inches are determined by totalling the measurements of ALL sides.

Custom Heirloom/Show -Large: Minimum of 281 overall inches, maximum of 480 overall inches. Custom Heirloom/Show quilts have been specifically designed as quilt show entries and/or not intended to be used as functional bed quilts. Fibers, fringe, crystals and embellishments of any kind are permitted.

Custom Heirloom/Show—Wall: Minimum of 100 overall inches, maximum of 280 overall inches. Custom Heirloom/Show quilts have been specifically designed as quilt show entries and/or not intended to be used as functional bed quilts. Fibers, fringe, crystals and embellishments of any kind are permitted.

Wholecloth : Minimum of 281 overall inches, maximum of 480 overall inches. The entry must be a single piece of fabric or pieced fabric that is all of the same colour, texture and content. The wholecloth piece should be designed to highlight the many quilting techniques of today’s machine quilters, including, meandering or background quilting, straight lines, feathers, continuous line and non-continuous line designs. The quilting must be the dominant feature of the Wholecloth and the quilting should encompass the entire quilt

Functional Custom -Large: Minimum of 281 overall inches, maximum of 480 overall inches. This category is for those functional bed quilts that we do for ourselves or for our customers that are meant for daily use but have been machine quilted with high quality custom quilting techniques. No embellishments, metallic threads or thread painting of any kind are permitted in this category

Functional Custom -Wall: Minimum of100 overall inches, maximum of 280 overall inches. This category is for those functional lap quilts that we do for ourselves or for our customers that are meant for daily use but have been machine quilted with high quality custom quilting techniques. No embellishments, metallic threads or thread painting of any kind are permitted in this category.

Art/Pictorial: Minimum of 100 overall inches, maximum of 280 overall inches. Involving thread play and/or a mixture of mediums and embellishments. All embellishments must be firmly attached and quilt must be able to be hung conventionally and with minimal care required. All quilts entered in this category must be the original design of the quilt maker and not made under the direction of another person in a workshop/course situation.

Edge-To-Edge: Minimum of 281 overall inches, maximum of 480 overall inches. An all-over-the-quilt pattern which is continuous-line derived from a pantograph or freehand quilting. The quilting design must cover the quilt completely from one edge to the other.

Note about quilts that are machine quilted with a Computerized Quilting System (CQS): Any quilt that is machine quilted with a CQS may be entered into the categories except for the edge to edge category. Utilization of a CQS is not a guarantee of perfection since stitch quality, stitch length, design choice and proper design placement are important factors for ALL machine quilters.

AMQA Inc Machine Quilting Show Terms & Conditions

1. Quilt competition entries must be postmarked no later than 31st July, 2010. Acceptance letters will go out on or about August 31st, 2010 by e-mail. If no e-mail address is available, please give us the e-mail address of a friend or relative that is nearby and might be able to accept the letter for you. Instructions for delivery will be included in this email. Postage costs to send & return your quilts to AMQA Inc /AMQ Festival are the responsibility of the entrant.

2. AMQA Inc individual members must submit a separate entry form and a $7.50 entry fee per quilt and postage costs to return each quilt. Cheques should be made payable to AMQ Festival or we would prefer you Internet Bank your fees and confirm the details on the entry form as listed.

3. All other entrants must submit a separate entry form and a $15 entry fee per quilt plus return postage costs, per quilt. Cheques should be made payable to AMQ Festival or we would prefer you Internet Bank your fees and confirm the details on the entry form as listed.

4. Any entrant wishing to join AMQA Inc as a new member prior to entering the AMQA Inc Machine Quilting Show is encouraged to do so at the rates as detailed on the website www.amqa.com.au and will then only incur the half price entry fees.

5. Entries must have been completed within the previous five years from date of entry and not been entered previously in an AMQA Inc show.

6. A photo of the complete quilt and another of the detail of the quilting must be provided with each entry. Please write your name, address and name of quilt & top of quilt on the reverse of the photograph.

7. All entries must be machine quilted. Quilting may be done on any type of machine including, but not limited to, domestic sewing machine, longarm, midarm or shortarm.

8. Enter the category that best fits the style and size of the quilt. If you have a question or concern about the categories, please check the box on the entry form and an AMQA representative will contact you to provide assistance.

9. No quilt will be disqualified if it is inadvertently placed in the wrong category. AMQA will review the entries several times before they are brought into the judging room. If an error occurs AMQA Inc will contact the entrant to apprise her/him of the error and work together to correct it prior to judging.

10. A false backing is grounds for immediate disqualification. You must not put a second backing on your quilt to hide tension flaws or messy quilting.

11. A 10cm deep rod pocket/hanging sleeve must be attached to the top of your quilt and a label detailing your name, contact details including address and telephone along with the date of completion.

12. AMQ Festival’s insurance liability is limited to public liability only. By signing the entry form you are agreeing to display your quilt with full knowledge and accept that you have to personally have your own quilts insured. AMQA Inc/AMQ Festival will do everything in its power to safeguard entries. However, transporting your quilt to/from ANY show is a risk and that risk is often limited. Transportation companies do not pay claims for quilt loss or damage without a certified appraisal. No matter what the value, consider carrying your own quilt insurance AND having your quilt appraised by a certified appraiser; especially if the quilt is irreplaceable.

13. AMQA Inc awards all prizes to the ENTRANT. The entrant may share any prize at his/her discretion. When an entry is machine quilted or pieced by someone other than the entrant, two ribbons will be awarded.

14. Quilts accepted into AMQA Inc Machine Quilting Show 2010 must be available from September 20^th through October 10th. AMQA Inc/AMQ Festival reserves the right to photograph any or all entries for publication and for other appropriate purposes.

15. All decisions of the judges are final. AMQA reserves the right to reject any entry, including those that fail to follow the AMQA Inc Machine Quilting Show rules.

Meet The Judges

SUSAN CAMPBELL

Raised in Adelaide, Susan is “middle” child with four siblings. As with most families of that era there was, for purely economic reasons, involvement with sewing crafts. Fortunately she enjoyed that aspect of life and continues to enjoy the various crafts learned as a child. Apart from continuing personal enjoyment of craft, time spent living in Kenya triggered an awareness of the place of craft in other societies. Variety was abundant, as was colour and form which became part of her quest to absorb history and other aspects of older cultures. Various travels to Asia and America have widened her interests.

On her return from Africa, she continued with various crafts, but became more and more focused on quilting and its possibilities. The obsession to do her own thing became too much and she procured the first long arm machine brought into Victoria in 1995. From that time quilting has been her passion and she believes technique improvement has probably been achieved, with more to be tried.

She says she hopes to live long enough to be able to unleash all the ideas in her head. She has passed on her skills to many students by conducting lessons at her studio in Yackandandah and teaching at specific Machine Quilting Symposiums in Australia and New Zealand.

Since 1995 Susan has been fortunate to be able to pursue her passion by working on clients’ quilts and many of those quilts have been featured as prizewinning quilts at major shows in both Melbourne and Sydney. Highlights have been a Runner-up Award for her own design of a Wholecloth quilt at the first Machine Quilters Show in Melbourne and then winning the Long Arm Prize also at Melbourne. In recent years she has teamed with Margaret McDonald where prizes have been awarded at Paducah and Houston