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The NFWI/Makower 'Cascade' Challenge

On the 7 May 2008, Linda Kemshall, City & Guilds Verifier and renowned quilt artist, Jayne Smith, Marketing Manager for Makower Crafts UK Ltd and Susan Hornby, Chair of Education Committee and Board of Trustee, came together at Denman College for an extremely difficult day of judging.  74 quilts were received for judging and the Judges reported that the general standard of workmanship was higher than in previous years which made judging such wonderful pieces of work even harder!
Eventually the winners were awarded ...

1st - Sheila Delaney, Staffordshire

2nd - Ruth Daniel, Berkshire

3rd - Ann Vitty, North Yorkshire East

and the runners-up were ... 

Jane Sully (Warwickshire), Astra Denton (Jersey), Jane Gamble (Suffolk East), Alma Tomlin (Berkshire), Liz Cornish (Worcestershire), Margaret Hamilton (Gwynedd-Caernarfon) and Anne Starkey (West Yorkshire).

If you would like to view the 10 winning quilts, they will be on display at the following Grosvenor Shows:

  • National Quilt Championships, Sandown Park, Surrey - 9 to 11 June 2008
  • The Great Northern Quilt Show, Harrogate - 5 to 7 September 2008
  • Back to Denman College for display at the 60th anniversary celebrations ...
  • Autumn Quilt Festival, Malvern, Worcestershire - 31 October to 2 November 2008
  • Autumn Quilt Festival, Chilford, Cambridgeshire - 7 to 9 November 2008
  • Back again to Denman College for display on the staircase until Christmas

Keep watching this space!  Photographs of all the quilts will be here shortly.

Thank you to Makower UK Ltd, Husqvarna Viking Sewing Machines and Guttermann Threads for sponsoring the competition.