Prizes and Awards

Professionally my work has been recognised through the successes in competitions and the awards my work has won.

RNA Quilts Across Queensland 2009 Championship Award – Best Machine Quilting Solutions II	2009 Australian Machine Quilting Association Show 1st Prize: Pictorial/Art Quilt Uluru	2009 Australian Machine Quilting Association Show 3rd Prize: Pictorial/Art Quilt Solutions I

2003 Australasian Machine Quilting Conference 2nd Prize: AMQA Challenge (Awarded by Linda Taylor) Mother’s Day	2005 Australasian Machine Quilting Conference 1st Prize: AMQC Challenge International Teacher’s Award (Awarded by Dawn Cavanaugh) Oh My Stars	2007 Australian Machine Quilting Exhibition Runner Up: Edge to Edge Category: A Silk Garden

RNA Quilts Across Queensland 2009

• Championship Award – Best Machine Quilting: Solutions II by Barb Cowan
• Judges Commendation: Blazing Star by Barb Cowan

Australian Machine Quilting Association Show 2009

• 1st Prize: Art/Pictorial Category Uluru by Barb Cowan
• 3rd Prize: Art/Pictorial Category Solutions I by Barb Cowan
• 3rd Prize: Edge to Edge Category (E2E) Earthy Squares by Kate Elliott
• Highly Commended: Edge to Edge Category (E2E) Hop, Skip and a Jump by Kate Elliott
• Highly Commended:Functional Custom Category A Burning Desire by Debbie Morton
• 3rd Prize:Custom/Heirloom Category Follow The Path by Lyndell McDonald
• Highly Commended:Custom/Heirloom Category Heirloom Lace by Rosa Mangano

Sydney Quilt Show 2009

• 2nd Prize: Commercial Machine Quilted (Amateur) Follow the Path by Lyndell Mc Donald of Kyogle, NSW
• 4th Prize : Fourth Place – Commercial Machine Quilted (Professional) Morning Light by Lorna Haigh of Murwillumbah, NSW

Quilts Across Queensland 2008 – Royal Queensland Show

• 1st Prize: Professional – Small Quilt – Any Technique Solutions I by Barb Cowan
• 1st Prize: Collaborative – Commercially Quilted – Any Technique Morning Light by Lorna Haigh of Murwillumbah, NSW
• 2nd Prize: Collaborative – Commercially Quilted – Any Technique The Torch of Lady Liberty by Barbara McIntyre

Queensland Quilters Annual Quilt Show

2008: 2nd Prize: Commercially Quilted (Professional) Category Kaleidoscopic Motifs by Lorna Haigh of Murwillumbah, NSW

2007: 3rd Prize: Commercially Quilted Category Morning Light by Lorna Haigh of Murwillumbah, NSW

2006:

• 2nd Prize: Commercially Quilted Category Vintage Stars and Steps by Glen Jacklin-Newham of Daisy Hill, Queensland
• 2nd Prize: Group/Collaborative Quilt Reproduction Nine Patch by Glen Jacklin-Newham of Daisy Hill, Queensland
• 1st Prize: Commercially Quilted Category Rotating Log Cabin by Lorna Haigh of Murwillumbah, NSW

2004:

• 1st Prize: Group/Collaborative Quilt ABC Local Radio Community Quilt 1 devised by Chris Welsh.

2003

• 1st Prize: Commercially Quilted Category Simply Stars by Deb Green of Bridgeman Downs, Qld
• 2nd Prize: Commercially Quilted Category Mother’s Day