Enter the 2010 Stitches Golden Needle Awards™ and show off your embroidery and digitizing skills and creativity! Finalists will be selected by a panel of veteran embroiderers and digitizers – and then we’re opening the voting to Stitches readers. Winners will be featured in the November 2010 issue of Stitches and online. So, select the entry category that fits your skills, and show us your talent.

Compete in these categories (top prizes for each category):


EMBROIDERY AWARDS
Sponsored By:     Stitches Editors’ Pick
(Stitches editors will select a grand-prize winner out of all the top embroidery winners) $250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Vantage Apparel (asi/93390), and ASI Decorator Membership (one year), sponsored by Advertising Specialty Institute


   
Sponsored By:    

Design of the Year, Artistic, Corporate
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Madeira Co.

Design of the Year, Artistic, Fashion
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Madeira Co.

   
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Design of the Year, Technical, Corporate
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Brother International Inc.

Design of the Year, Technical, Fashion
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Brother International Inc.

   
Sponsored By:     Best Use of Stock Design
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Gildan
   
Sponsored By:     Best Multimedia Design, Corporate
$250 Prize Pack, sponsored by Hilos Iris

Best Multimedia Design, Fashion
$250 Prize Pack, sponsored EnMart


   
Sponsored By:     Best Single-Color Design
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Jericho Products Corp. (asi/63326)
   
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Accessories, Fashion
Two dozen of Panther Vision's new (3) LED Panther Vision POWERCAP™ in the winner's choice of color/style (minimum value is $252), sponsored by Panther Vision (asi/75825)

Accessories, Home
ASI Decorator Membership (one year), sponsored by Advertising Specialty Institute



   

DIGITIZING AWARDS
Sponsored By:     Stitches Editors’ Pick
(Stitches editors will select a grand-prize winner out of all the top digitizing winners) $250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Tees On The Run (asi/90748), and ASI Decorator Membership (one year), sponsored by Advertising Specialty Institute


   
Sponsored By:     Design of the Year, Artistic, Corporate
$250 Prize Pack, sponsored by American Embroidery Supply

Design of the Year, Artistic, Fashion
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in for for Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW, sponsored by Pulse Microsystems Ltd. Winner has an option to buy Embroidery i2 for 50% of the prevailing retail price in the U.S./country of award-winning company at the end of the subscription. (Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW programs are not included.)

   
Sponsored By:    

Design of the Year, Technical, Corporate
Free Tajima DG/ML by Pulse Illustrator Extreme System, valued at more than $7,000 retail, sponsored by Pulse Microsystems Ltd. (www.pulsemicro.com). Illustrator Extreme is a powerful VBE digitizing software that includes vector import, branching, popular stitch and fill types, drawing tools, special tools and advanced features - everything needed to create premium embroidery.

Design of the Year, Technical, Fashion
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in for for Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW, sponsored by Pulse Microsystems Ltd. Winner has an option to buy Embroidery i2 for 50% of the prevailing retail price in the U.S./country of award-winning company at the end of the subscription. (Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW programs are not included.) 








   
Sponsored By:     Best Multimedia Design
Free one-year license to use Melco LiveDesigner Suite ($6,000 value), sponsored by Melco. (After the first year, the winner can renew the license at half-price.) Melco’s LiveDesigner Suite online store delivers orders and embroidery or print files for production, increasing sales and reducing turnaround time. LiveDesigner Suite enhances the customer experience, creating valuable repeat business for you.




   
Sponsored By:     Best Single-Color Design
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in for for Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW, sponsored by Pulse Microsystems Ltd. Winner has an option to buy Embroidery i2 for 50% of the prevailing retail price in the U.S./country of award-winning company at the end of the subscription. (Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW programs are not included.)



   
Sponsored By:     Best Home Accessories Design
$250 Gift Certificate, sponsored by Pro Towels Etc. (asi/79750)


   

Entry Deadline Extended: June 16, 2010