Enter your Quilt into the Australian Quilt Show
Will you have a quilt completed between December 2024 and February 20, 2026?
Enter it into the Australian Quilt Show – your quilt could tour across events during 2026.
Your quilt could be on show AND there is a Mega Prize Pool of $37,297 to be won, including a $10,000 cash Best of Show prize, and a further $9,300 cash in category prizes. PLUS there are 3Â incredible Janome machines to be won.
7 Categories
- Modern Quilt
- Traditional Quilt
- Art or Pictorial Quilt
- Pieced and/or Appliqued Quilt
- Recycled And Restyled
- Emerging Talent – for entrants aged 21 years and under on December 31, 2025
- Embroidered by hand or machine
Judging will be based on
- Excellence in design
- Craftsmanship
- Interpretation of theme where applicable
8 Special Awards
- Best Use of Colour
- Best Themed Pictorial Quilt
- Best Abstract Quilt
- Best Hand Work
- Best Machine quilting – medium or longarm machine
- Best Machine quilting – domestic machine
- Judges’ Choice
- Viewers’ Choice
The Details
Read the Rules
The entry must have been completed between December 2024 and the deadline for online entry of February 20, 2026.
If the entrant has drawn inspiration from another artwork such as a photograph, that source must be acknowledged in the entry form. If the entrant has drawn inspiration from copyright artwork, existing pattern or a class or similar source, it is the entrant’s responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder to use the artwork as inspiration in their entry.
Important Dates
- February 20, 2026: Closing date for online entry
- February 27, 2026: Finalists advised and notification of juried entrants to send actual quilt entries for final judging
- March 13, 2026: Deadline for receiving quilts juried in for judging
- April 2026: Non-finalists’ entries will be returned
- April 10, 2026: Announcement of all prize winners except Viewers’ Choice
