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Category 2

Judy Schneider Memorial Award for New Quilter

Coral Brady

George Ogilvie opening the Quilt Event

Coral’s quilt on right hand side

Jill McLeod standing in front of quilt




Category 3

Hand quilting Award

Elaine Niit


Category 4

Quilt made for a child

Gwen King



Category 5

Bed Quilt

Charlene Bower




Category 6

Wall Hanging

Robyn McPherson



Category 7

Lap Quilt

Estelle Micklethwaite


Category 8

Quilt made by child 17 and under

Jarrod Micklethwaite



Category 9

Quilt made by more than one person

Robyn McPherson




Category 10

Quilt made from recycled fabrics

Kathryn Doyle Hailey



Category 12

The Braidwood Quilt Shop Challenge

June Weatherstone


The Quilt event Raffle


The winner of the raffle was Trudi Tritchler from Bungendore.

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OFFICIAL OPENING

BRAIDWOOD QUILTERS INC.


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The official opening of The Quilt Event will be on Friday evening, 25th Nov 2011 commencing at 6 pm. The venue is the National Theatre, Wallace Street, Braidwood. All entrants and other interested people are invited to attend. The cost is $10 per head. If you wish to join us, please fill in the form and post it to reach the committee by 24th November 2011 together with your payment to :–


       

The Quilt Event Committee

Braidwood Quilters Inc.

PO Box 135

BRAIDWOOD NSW 2622

BRAIDWOOD QUILT EVENT


The Braidwood Quilt Event came into being following conversation during a social occasion one afternoon sometime in 1995.  The group of quilters became impatient with talk and decided to act.  On the fourth weekend of November in that same year a small outdoor exhibition of twenty-five quilts mysteriously appeared hanging from the first floor verandah rails of Braidwood’s beautiful collection of 19th century buildings for which the town is famous.


The traffic stopped in the main street which is also the busy highway from Canberra to the NSW southcoast and the founders of the Braidwood Quilt Event knew that they had happened upon something very special and was worth continuing on an annual basis.  The group formed themselves into Braidwood Quilters which became incorporated in 1997.  Quilt Event is now accompanied by a two-day Quilt Show and a fringe festival which has developed well beyond the association’s wildest dreams.


Over 500 quilts are displayed in the street and different venues in the town. Quilters from all over Australia are invited to join in the outdoor ‘airing’, the competitive section of the indoor exhibition and the fringe festival activities.  We invite you to join Braidwood Quilters Inc. and the citizens of Braidwood again this year either as an entrant or as a visitor – you will have a great weekend.

The Quilt Event 2011 Review


Australian theatre and film director George Ogilvie AM opened the Quilt Event on Friday evening, November 25. His inspired talk that likened the making of quilts to the direction of film kept a fascinated audience spellbound.  The Annual Braidwood Quilt Event had been launched with much aplomb.

But southeast NSW suffered the most amazing weather on Saturday, November 26, the very day that the 17th Annual Airing of the Quilts was to take place in the main street of Braidwood.  Rain fell in sheets and 200 quilts stayed in storage – the spectacle of quilts hanging from Braidwood’s historic buildings could not be achieved.  This was only the second time in seventeen years that we have not been able to carry out our iconic outdoor exhibition.


But all was not lost.  Visitors and residents enjoyed a bounty of indoor exhibitions and the outdoor markets sheltered under the first floor verandahs, giving the town a very festive appearance.  Buses from north, south, east and west arrived and the courtesy bus kept everyone dry as it ferried visitors to all fifteen venues.


The indoor exhibition in the historic 1922 built tin shed National Theatre was the highlight of the day with an exhibition of both beautiful competitive and exhibition quilts. Beth Miller’s art quilt, the winner of the Cortona Resources Limited $1000 Acquisitive Art Quilt Award, was a hot favourite which also carried off the Viewers’ Choice Prize.  Once again the imaginative work of Total Fabrications graced the National Theatre stage    The Braidwood Courthouse housed the fascinating Threads of Asia exhibition and Meg Davidson’s display of Vintage Wedding Dresses at the Services Club provided a nostalgic visit to the past which caught everyone’s imagination.   


More quilts, craft items and refreshments were to be found at the CWA Rooms, the Masonic Lodge, St Andrews Anglican Church and the Braidwood Fire Station. Carol Ogilvie’s delightful exhibition For the Love of Wool, Paull McKee’s make-do-art exhibition The Art of Repair at the Braidwood Museum and The Shed at St Bedes Primary School were all welcome additions to this year’s festival.  


A little out of town old favourites such as Suzanne Bellamy’s Open Studio and the St Omer garden were joined this year by the Galifrey Alpaca Textile Farm Shop and a new open garden, Eileen and Dennis Dempsey’s well planned three year old garden in Llewellyn Drive.


Come rain or come shine, the Quilt Event once again proved that Braidwood is the only place to be on the fourth weekend of November each year. The members of Braidwood Quilters Inc. look forward to seeing you all again over the weekend of November 24-25, 2012.


Jill McLeod

President


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Results of  the 2011 Indoor Competition

Category 1


Beth Miller

The winner of the Cortona Resources Limited $1000 Acquisitive Art Quilt Award

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Indoor Viewers’ Choice