The Brisbane Craft and Quilt Expo...

Well I decided that since I have been doing so well with the dizzy giddies lol that I would 'challenge' (treat) myself by going into the city and checking out the Expo last Thursday. It was madness! I thought that by going on a week day I would miss some of the crowd - and I may have done - however it was still chock solid people! Heaps of stalls with product and ideas, everything from quilting through all needlecraft to scrap booking and decoupage... The most exciting part and my main reason for going though was the exhibition, and I have to say it was bigger brighter and more amazing than I imagined.... I took a few hundred photos so please enjoy the ones below :)
Also because there are sooo many I'm not including the pics with the info on them... apologies - if you need more let me know and I'll try and find it! Also they are small as there is 136 (Grab a coffe/tea and a biscuit) but if you click on them it gives you a bigger pic... Sorry re any blurry ones - getting a people free gap was tricky... ok shutting up now :)

Best in show

Judges Choice, Second professional textile art - Yay! this is by Lynne Williams 'Lust for Copper' I am joining they're quilting group 'Arty Pants' and hope to learn a lot!

You may remember it in this picture from the Redlands Extravaganza...

First open machine system quilter

Best hand quilting (hand pieced too)

First amateur small quilt

Best use of colour

First amateur pieced

Best Traditional Quilt

First Professionally pieced

Sorry this is so blurry - it is just cute and the colours worked well

Second professionally pieced

I put this one in, because the fish are cut from fabric and the effect is quite good

First Professional Applique (1800 leaves) please zoom in on the shot below to see a sample of the detail all over

Second Professional Applique

Third Amateur commercially quilted

 The Next 8 Quilts were the State winners this year - they say 'from the Quilters Guild' so whether they are selected by them on merit of various awards won?

The one Below is the National Winner

 Below are the winner and the runner up from the AP&Q 'Seven Deadly Sins' Challenge

Then it moved onto smaller wallhanging and art style quilts

Second professional pictorial - I absolutely love this one, as a painter of sea themes from long back I love the way the fabric works as decaying rusty metal

First professional pictorial

Third amateur textile art

 

Second amateur textile art

First senior-secondary school (16-18)

Then there was a section withe the theme 'Essence of Australia' I think that these might have been invitational submissions, each one was a set of 6 placemat size quilts...

Can you even believe how awesome these are? There are closeups below of the animals - they are gorgeous!

Then back to the small quilts...

This one is crazy quilt style regarding the embellish... not an inch unstitched

Second professional small quilt

Third professional textile art

First professional textile art, best domestic machine quilting

First amateur textile art

First Amateur pictorial, Best wall quilt

I'm not being rude - look at the wonderful detail and colour transition

First amateur commercially quilted

Not my style at all, but interesting 3D flowers

Second open group / collaborative

Third professionally pieced

Third professionally commercially quilted

Third professional applique

Second professionally commercially quilted

Second amateur pictorial

Then a shibori exhibition