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Suzie Liles of Umpqua Weavers Guild won BEST OF SHOW and HGA EXCELLENCE AWARD for "Pockets Full of Stars", a blue silk dress and shawl in double weave creating over 12,000 pockets into which individual sequins were hand-placed.