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Home  AMQAS Information 2009
The Inaugural
Australian Machine Quilting Association Show
AMQAS 2009 | Many Thanks to the Following AMQAS Sponsors for their Support |
Winners When
Where
Categories Prizes Who Can Enter Submission Date Entry Form (Please refer to the entry form for full details) Meet The Judges
WHEN – Saturday and Sunday 26 and 27 September 2009 WHERE – The Auditorium, Eventide, Beaconsfield Tce, Brighton Qld CATEGORIES
SHOW STOPPER QUILTING
1. CUSTOM – HEIRLOOM/TRADITIONAL
Machine quilted to imitate the customary techniques of our ancestors. Techniques might include, SID; block motifs; feathers; coordinated border designs; cross‐hatching or grid‐work as well as continuous curves, wavy lines, outline stitching etc. No embellishments such as metallic threads, fibres, fringe, crystals or painting, etc will be permitted in this category.
2. MASTER QUILTER
Quilts which have won a best of show, or first in its category at any Australian State Guild Show or Internationally recognized quilting show are eligible to enter this category. Open to any size and any technique.
3. ART/PICTORIAL
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 (Category 3.) must be the original design of the quilt maker and not made under the direction of another person in a workshop/course situation.
BREAD & BUTTER QUILTING
4. FUNCTIONAL CUSTOM
This category is for those functional or utility quilts that we do for ourselves or for our customers that are meant for daily use. No embellishments, metallic threads or thread painting of any kind are permitted in this category.
5. EDGE - TO - EDGE (E2E)
An “all over the quilt” pattern which is a continuous line derived from a pantograph or freehand quilting. The quilting design must cover the quilt completely from edge to edge. Computerised quilting systems excluded from this category. | Gold Sponsors 
Silver Sponsors Bronze Sponsors |
WINNERS-Congratulations to all the winners of AMQAS 2009.
Edge to Edge
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1st Oma's Garden by Karen Terrens of Quilts on Bastings Northcote Vic |
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2nd Double Delight quilted by Sharon French of Morning Star Quilting of
Avoca Beach NSW |
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3rd Earthy Squares quilted by Barb Cowan of The Quilt Connection of Aspley
Qld |
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Highly Commended - Hop, Skip and a Jump quilted by Barb Cowan of The Quilt
Connection of Aspley Qld |
Functional Custom
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1st Zique Zague by Karen Terrens of Quilts on Bastings of Northcote Vic |
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2nd Fussy Felines by Heather Shanks of Heasha Quilting of Palm Beach Qld |
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3rd Starburst by Robyn Dall of Quality Quilting of WA Bunbury WA |
 
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Highly Commended - A Burning Desire quilted by Barb Cowan of The Quilt
Connection of Aspley Qld |
Custom-Heirloom/Traditional
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1st Celebration by Pam Hill of Manly Qld |
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2nd The Shimmering Lotus quilted by Rachelle Denneny of Glenelg SA |
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3rd Follow the Path quilted by Barb Cowan of The Quilt Connection of Aspley,
Qld |
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Highly Commended - The Full Circle quilted byPam Hill of Manly Qld |
 
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Highly Commended - Heirloom Lace quilted by Barb Cowan of The Quilt,
Connection of Aspley Qld |
Art/Pictorial
Master Quilter
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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.
SUE DENNIS
Sue is an award-winning textile artist recognised in Australia and internationally for her distinctive, colourful, original art quilts that incorporate numerous innovative surface design techniques and stitch, to create texture and tell a uniquely Australian story. Since she began quilting in 1990 while living in Mt. Isa Queensland, Sue has exhibited widely in invitational, juried, solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. In 2001 Sue’s quilt “WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE?” was the winner of Australian Quilts in Public Places and acquired by the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. Her work is represented in international touring exhibitions and private collections in the USA, New Zealand and Australia and has been published in Fiberarts, Craft Arts International, Textile Fibre Forum, Down Under Quilts, Quilters Companion and Australian Patchwork and Quilting. Sue is a well-respected, experienced teacher who loves to pass her quilting knowledge to her students and is a Quilters’ Guild of NSW Accredited Teacher- Special Techniques. Other professional activities include judging & jurying Quilt shows, Curator of STATE of the ART quilt 09, Studio Art Quilt Associates [SAQA] Oceania representative, Australian coordinator World Quilt Competition, Chair of Queensland Quilters Art Quilts, Professional Artist member of SAQA and member of International Quilt Association, Queensland Quilters Inc, The Quilters’ Guild of NSW Inc, Ozquilt Network Inc and Sunnybank Quilters.
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