Winners announced at our Beating Around the Bush embroidery convention 2003.
Prize: A full range of Au Ver à Soie Soie d’Alger® 5 meter pull-skein

The recent world wide Au Ver a Soie competition announced in issue 36 of Inspirations attracted fourteen of our most talented embroiderers.
We received some amazing entries and our judges had great difficulty choosing the winner.
We were so impressed with the beautiful embroidery that it was decided to award a runner up prize also.
The winning entry showed a typically Australian scene with two pink and grey stumpwork galahs sitting on a branch of native blossoms, with gently rolling hills in the background.
Our runner up embroidered a stunning pill box hat with silk threads, goldwork, beads and long tassels.
Five entrants each embroidered an amazing picture, all totally different and with many unusual techniques incorporated into each picture.
There were two elegant bags entered in the competition, both very different and just gorgeous for an evening out on the town, while a silk evening wrap was decorated with beads and embroidered native flowers.
A unique chatelaine was also entered, embellished with mythical creatures.
An exquisite Victorian hand made box with embroidered nasturtiums was another beautiful project.
We also received an entry of tiny flowers on stems, protected with a glass dome and an amazing sewing box with tiny freestanding stumpwork birds by their nest. This round wooden box was beautifully embroidered on the inside
also.

Marian Carpenter
Deputy Editor, Inspirations
http://www.countrybumpkin.com.au