Festival of Quilts 2015 - round up

This year, I went to Festival of Quilts for two days with Hannah and went to two one hour sessions, a first for me. It meant I had lots of time to see several things multiple times and so I got to see every quilt on show.As usual I like to do a bit of a round up of the quilts on display that caught my eye… Get a cup of tea, this may take a while.First, here's some of the Quilt Creations (3D) category.Me with my Junk in the Trunk Dress. The judges said:Judge 1 - 10x Good - Creative dress, colours and fabrics work well.Judge 2 - 5x Excellent, 3x Good, 2x N/A - Clever co-ordination of such a variety of fabrics and the dress is very wearable.Judge 3 - 3x Good, 5x Satisfactory, 2x N/A - What a fun way to use up one's 'junk' patchwork pieces! Ideal for a 1960s party! A colourful, eye-catching dress.Happy with that! Isn't it great how one judge says your quilting is excellent and the other satisfactory? Still, no 'Needs Attention' marks so I'm very pleased.Above is Ceri's running dress with cape, made with donated blocks and for her run in memory of Terri from Brit Bee. It was nice to see this in real life and I spotted a couple of my blocks in there that didn't make it into my own dress.From Golden Textures of Australia...From Fine Art Masters...Art quilts...Contemporary quilts...Traditional Quilts...Miniature Quilts...Pictorial Quilts...Me with Hank, Frankly. The judges said:Judge 1 - 2x Excellent, 7x Good, 1x N/A - A most appealing portrait and a brave decision to mount it this way.Judge 2 - 4x Good, 6x Satisfactory - Nice quilt made with love to the dog. Original shapes (edges) of the quilt.Judge 3 - 2x Excellent, 4x Good, 3x Satisfactory, 1x N/A - What a challenging shape to use as a quilt! Loved the big brown eyes.Group quilts...I've no idea what the judges came back with on this yet, but this was our group's entry.Two person quilts...Quilter's Guild Challenge...I also grabbed another shot of a Gillian Travis quilt- this one was in Quilters In Action. Her work has handprinted fair isle patterns onto of wool appliqué.I think in particular, this year for me has been about epic appliqué. I really love what Liz Jones has done and the Billings Coverlet too, it inspired me as soon as I got home to design an almost entirely appliqué medallion quilt for entry next year, some by machine and some by hand. Can't wait.