Enter the 2013 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. Winners will be featured in the November 2013 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:     Embroidery, Editors' Pick
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Vantage Apparel (asi/93390)


   
Sponsored By:    

Embroidery, Design of the Year, Artistic, Corporate
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Madeira USA

Embroidery, Design of the Year, Artistic, Fashion
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Madeira USA

   
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Embroidery, Design of the Year, Technical, Corporate
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Callaway, Perry Ellis International (asi/77715)

Embroidery, Design of the Year, Technical, Fashion
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Outdoor Cap Co. (asi/75420)



   
Sponsored By:     Embroidery, Best Use of Stock Design
$250 worth of Alternative’s top-selling Basic Chino Twill Cap H0070C1, sponsored by Alternative Apparel (asi/34850)
   
Sponsored By:     Embroidery, Best Multimedia Design, Corporate
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Munsingwear, Perry Ellis International (asi/77715)

Embroidery, Best Multimedia Design, Fashion
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by The Bag Factory, The Magnet Group (asi/68507)



   
Sponsored By:     Embroidery, Best Single-Color Design
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Sierra Pacific Apparel/Featherlite (asi/87224)
   
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Embroidery, Home or Fashion Accessories
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Tag Safari, Africa Safari USA (asi/33176)



   
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Embroidery and Heat-Printing Decoration
$250 gift certificate for Stahls' ID Direct heat-transfer materials or custom-cut products, sponsored by Stahls' ID Direct (asi/88984)

   

DIGITIZING AWARDS
Sponsored By:     Digitizing, Editors' Pick
Melco Design Shop Pro Plus, valued $11,000, sponsored by Melco
Melco's DesignShop Pro Plus is a powerful embroidery digitizing software used all over the world by thousands of users and companies like Dakota Collectibles, the world's largest supplier of stock embroidery designs. Intuitive and robust, DesignShop will decrease digitizing time and increase the quality of stitching customers will love. Visit www.melco.com for more information.


   
Sponsored By:     Digitizing, Design of the Year, Artistic, Corporate
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in 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.)

Digitizing, Design of the Year, Artistic, Fashion
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in 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:    

Digitizing, Design of the Year, Technical, Corporate
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in 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.)

Digitizing, Design of the Year, Technical, Fashion
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in 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:     Digitizing, Best Multimedia Design
Free two-year subscription to Embroidery i2 (www.embroideryi2.com), a plug-in 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:     Digitizing, Best Single-Color Design
$250 gift certificate, sponsored by Hilton Apparel Group (asi/60930)



   
Sponsored By:     Digitizing, Best Home or Fashion Accessories Design, $250 gift certificate
Sponsored by Pro Towels Etc. (asi/79750)


   

Extended Deadline: June 3, 2013