1 Family Yarns
Express your family heritage. Look back to the generations who have come before you and share the story in a beanie. Celebrate a textile technique used by your grandma's grandma- or make a head dress from your own culture. Express a story that explains something about who you are personally or the country you come from.

2 Cultural Stories
 Retell a cultural story, a folk tale or a myth that inspires you. Introduce us to a goddess or an ancestral being. Depict a scene or a detail from a favourite story.

3 Favourite Bedtime Yarn
Remember being tucked up in bed and hearing or reading a story that transported you. The characters, the faraway places, the imaginary friends. Bring them back to life in your favourite beanie.

4 Spirit of the Land
A beanie that captures the story and spirit of the land we live in.

5 Natural Fibres Beanie
For a fabulous beanie made with love from natural fibres, incorporating a great idea and skill.

6 The Eileen Bladon Tea- Cosy Prize
Tea- Cosies are sister objects to the beanie.

7 Ashfords prize for Best Hand-felted Beanie
Including wet felting, needle felting or knit and felt techniques. 

8 The Central Australian
Prize for an outstanding piece of work made by a local Centralian artist.

9 Festival Committee Acquisition Prize
 For wonderful and unusual work.

10 The Robbie Beard Handspun Prize
Prize for a work made with yarn handspun by the artist.

11 School Age Beanie Encouragement Prize
For a school-aged beginner beanie maker.

12 School Age Beanie Prize
For a school-aged advanced beanie maker.

13 People's Prize
The favourite beanie of 2012. Voting will be carried out during the Festival.

Beanie Competition and Exhibition:

Gallery One, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs Cultural Precinct, Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs.

Open from Friday June 22- Sunday July 17 2012