Traditional Quilts - Honorable mention
Country: India

Dimensions: 228.6 x 228.6 x 1
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: From the morning hues of yellow and golden sunrise, to greens of the beautiful garden under the bright blue skies, to the red and punk pastels of the flowers, from the violet skies of the sunset to the moonlit indigo rivers at night. Life is full of this rainbow of colors around. This quilt made from 365 blocks each for a day of the year is made to reflect this spectrum of colors we face in our lives. Made with pure silk, the quilting process was edge to edge pantograph .

Judge's Choice
Country: India

Dimensions: 104.14 x 66.04 x 0.4
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: The crazy garden quilt is completely handmade and consists of 25 hexagons and 6 half hexagons. Each hexagon has at least 25 embroidery stitches with ribbon work, butterflies, bees and embellishments. Every hexagon has been adorned with lace & embroidery work. The intricate quilt has been crafted with locally sourced and upcycled sarees and blouse scraps. This piece begun in the COVID times of February 2020 and took 7 months to complete, with the support and guidance of Tsala Studio, Bangalore.

Judge's Choice
Country: India

Dimensions: 214 x 228 x 2.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: tree of life is hand quilted and hand embroided traditional quilt. mughal goemetric pattern is used with tree and decorative flowers for quilting and embroidery.

Judge's Choice
Country: India

Dimensions: 81 x 67 x 0.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: The quilt is an homage to the 19 year old young Dalit woman from Hathras in UP, India who was gang raped and left to die on a field after she was mauled and mangled. She later died in a hospital after naming her perpetrators. The quilt is also a promise to all persons who lost their life to violent sexual crimes that we do our bit to speak about the injustice and we will not forget. It is our responsibility to let the children roam freely among the deers and birds without fear.

Best of Show
Country: India

Dimensions: 100 x 69
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: Selling beads on pavements...strung together with artistry. Her wares seem to grab all the attention and overshadow her own beauty. Only if you care to look closer will you see the beautiful people behind their beautiful creations. A Narikurava woman, one of the many beautiful Indian ethnic groups, captured in her unique charm in the evening sun.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 69 x 68
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: We made this quilt successfully in this pandamic situation. We were impressed by Mrs.Meena’s great idea -lead us to complete our quilt.It is also new experience for us.Thank you.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 78 x 76
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: I am studying in X standard. I took this idea from my mom’s mobile. I like this idea. I cut small pieces of cloth and joined it. I joined this pieces very successfully. I showed it to my lovable parents, brothers, my family and respected teachers. They encouraged me. Mrs.Meena Madam ,Mrs.Rani Madam and Mrs.Akilandeswari Madam helped to me. Thank you.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 122 x 91 x 1
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: Living and being as one with the nature is zen like and is appreciated rarely in today’s climate. The boost to the personal growth it brings is unmatched and today’s urban lifestyle feels like a step backwards. Reflecting back on when we lived in the midst of nature a few years back, this quilt is a recreation of the same, with my beloved son sitting, and breathing in the sight that were the flowers and the garden I grew around my house. The “floral rhapsody” surrounding this house, combined with the love we had as a family, made it a home.

Shortlisted
Country: INDIA

Dimensions: 122 x 91 x 1.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: A weaver and felter, I work with water colours and oils. This background inspired me to express the uniqueness of nature and flowers in this quilt artform with wool fibres. Imitating nature with fabric, thread is challenging and I successfully navigated through to create the clouds in the sky and the bee on the flower. About the quilt : Silk fabric, about 12 shades of corridale wool, yarns, miyuki, toho, czech and preciosa beads and crystals. Techniques used - Three forms of felting - Nuno, wet & needle felting. It is a multi-layered (3,5,7) felting done on a silk cloth which serves as a batting, surface embellishments by embroidered hand stitches with silk yarns and Yarn couching and lots of beads.

Shortlisted
Country: Kuwait

Dimensions: 177 x 176
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: This quilt is all about my family. The red colour represents the meaning of their family name and the feathered star in the centre represents my nest/ our home. The 4 doves around the star are my children. You can see that all of the doves have their wings open as if in flight, which represents my empty home now that all the children have all grown up and left home in one way or another. The label on the back shows the only 2 doves left in the nest which is me and their father. Hence the name of the quilt.

Shortlisted
Sold Country: India

Dimensions: 241.3 x 203.2 x 1
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: My team & I have given a new twist to the traditional designs from the world of quilting. We have used the very traditional Indian prints to make this traditional log cabin quilt and yet given it a contemporary twist.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 86 x 86.5 x 0.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: Inspired from the International Dog day on 26th August. This is my first portrait Art quilt. The material was meticulously picked from various scrap clothes and artistically placed together to give a 3D effect to the quilt. The project took close to 10 days to complete. The method used was Raw Edge Aplique.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 99.5 x 68.5 x 0.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: A story with my youngest daughter is never complete without a mystical creature. One such story during a storm was the unicorn that rides the thunder. Just like the stories were about pegasus that signified liberty and freedom, the story for this quilt starts with needing special parts not easily available in India. Like the unicorn that rides the thunder, the part needed to give this quilt the final touch, traveled all over the world for over 30 days before it could finally land in my hands. The quilt was pieced together and quilted in a record time of 50 hours. The method used was Raw edge applique.

Shortlisted
Country: South Africa

Dimensions: 116 x 217
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: To be aware of what lies beneath the surface of what we can see. This can be emotions and feelings, which can be hidden from the surface of other people. In the same way we can't see the vegetables growing underground and what is hidden from the surface. Materials used: silk, cotton, linen, felt, brocade, tuille, velvet. Cotton twine, 100% wool yarn, silk yarns and beads.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 33.5 x 33.5 x 1.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: Nature is beautiful.I have tried to capture the different hues of the sky in a sunset from yellow to dark fiery red .The black repersents a dark night with stars. I have also included the colours of the sea from blue to green. There are more than 1184 pieces in this 13 by 13 inch quilt. This was done by paper piecing method.The quilting is ‘big stitch hand quilting’.Crystal stones have been used to denote the stars in the black night.

Shortlisted
Sold Country: India

Dimensions: 27 x 27 x 2
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: I love wedgewood pottery which also reminds me of our own blue pottery in India.I have done shadow trapunto and there are totally 6 layers in this miniature.Trapunto was done using sheer organza fabric,cotton fabrics and batting.I have followed Kumiko Frdyl's technique where she used water soluble thread for the trapunto.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 62 x 62 x 1.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: During the lockdown ,I missed meeting my mother and the littlest Bhargava-- my brother's grandchild in our family.I had attended Chitra Mandanna's class the previous year and decided to follow her technique and make a portrait quilt of the oldest and youngest people in our lives.Fabrics were from whatever stash I had available.I used my mother's own sari and stitched it down. I used Inktense pencils for some of the highlights .Needless to say,that my mother was thrilled to receive this pictorial quilt.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 200 x 200 x 2
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: The intricate quilt was inspired by Vatsala Kamath's design and motivation. She guided me through the entire process of offsetting the four bold coloured blocks with grey and black in the background. This quilt has 334 pieces in each block with a total of 25 blocks. I used the "quilt as you go" method and 0.5 an inch strips. The entire quilt was hand-quilted with pure cotton tie and dye material from Squareinch, Chennai, India.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 182 x 160 x 0.5
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: My quilt 'Organised Chaos' is my personal take on the Gypsy wife quilt pattern. Vibrant colours inspired from the traditional Indian heritage forms the heart of this quilt. Varied patterns and designs have been put together to form this beautiful piece of art. This quilt displays the different techniques of block types. Pure Indian raw silk has been used in making of this quilt. This quilt is a collaboration between me and my friend, Binita and we have been together exploring this world of quilt making. We loom forward to our very first experience of participating in the India International Quilt Festival and are thoroughly enjoying this process.

Shortlisted
Country: India

Dimensions: 122 x 91
Artist Statement/ Description/ Method: This is my original design. While thinking about the theme, lotus attracted me. When at the end of the day I sat down for a bit, trying to meditate this image popped up in my head. I joined few A4 sized papers and drew my design with pencil on actual sized paper. I created the color scheme and made top center with prepared machine applique. Added borders. And quilted the top on my domestic machine. After the binding I added embroidered bumble bee as according to the Vedas, the buzzing of a bee is symbolic of the fundamental sound of the universe. Through out my process I used gold heavy weight thread here and there. Finally added lace to complete the look I wanted.