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Winners from the 2004 World Quilt Competition in in August at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Manchester, New Hampshire, included:
Best of World: Alabaster Relief by Zena Thorpe.
Janome Honorable Mention Best of World: Fancy Birds by Martha Brown.
Traditional: First: 24/7 by Rachel Wetzler; Second: Welsh Dresser by Gwenfai Rees Griffiths; Third: Whig Rose Amended by Susan Suhre.
Best Use of Color: Colours of South Africa by Jenny Svensson.
Innovative: First: Sail Away Home by Christine Fries-Ureel; Second: People of Our Land by Valerie Madsen; Third: Marine City Project by Mitsuko Murakami.
Best Use of Color: The Well by Esterita Austin.
Best of Country Awards:
Australia: First: Caesia Cascade by Susan Mathews; Second: The Adventures of Snugglepot, Cuddlepie, Ragged Blossom & Lilly Pilly by Beth Roberts.
Canada: First: The Truly Canadian Quilt #2 by Janet Crone; Second: Feathered Friends and Flowers by Valerie Ursulak.
Germany: First: Strange Zebras by Catherine Pascal; Second: Poppies for My Little Mouse by Jutta Boehmler-Hahn.
Italy: First: Earendil's Light by Domenica Gai; Second: Stars in the Sky by Silvana Bressan.
Japan: First: Gloria, Gloria by Mariko Miwa; Second: Healing by Yoshiko Miyamoto.
New Zealand: First: True Lovers Knot by Heather Harding; Second: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...Who is the Squarest of Them All? by Indra Ahnaimugan.
Norway: First: In the Beginning by Bente Vold Klausen; Second: Postcards by Merete Nybro Berg.
South Africa: First: Red Thread, Fissures, and Fossils Series #5 by Jennifer Hearn; Second: Storm Over Africa by Jenny Williamson.
United Kingdom: First: 2003 Tulips by Sandie Lush; Second: From Addis to Kili: Dawn to Dusk by Patricia Archibald.
United States: First: The Niebur Sisters by Nancy S. Brown; Second: Nocturnal Spontaneity by B.J. Titus.
Viewers' Choice: Sail Away Home by Christine Fries-Ureel.
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