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The 4th Genevieve Awards: Festival of Quilts 2024

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 Hello everybody! There has been another Festival of Quilts! And I exhibited again - with one solo quilt, and one block in a group quilt. I was only able to go for one day this year, but in that day I managed to pack in watching the 'Wearable Quilt Creations' catwalk, and an embroidery workshop, as well as getting around all the quilts and some of the vendors.  Again, I managed to max out the storage on my phone and its SD card with photographs as there were just so many beautiful quilts to see. Me in front of my quilt 'Focussed Rainbow' Me pointing to my block in #teambearpaw24 2 - conceived and pieced by Chris English So to the awards!  The Genevieve Awards are awards I give to the quilts on display at the Festival of Quilts. The only prize for them is the knowledge that I like your quilt. I make up the categories, I decide which quilts go in to the categories, I decide who wins. These are now the fourth Awards (you can also read the ones for 2023 , 2022 and 2019 ) an