2025 QUILT SHOW CHALLENGESDo you need some inspiration for your next project? Consider participating in one of our quilt show challenges! See below for guidelines for each of this year's challenges. Completed projects should be entered into the quilt show in the category for the particular challenge. Entries are displayed together at the quilt show and viewer's choice ribbons awarded for each challenge category. It is a lot of fun to see how each person has interpreted the challenge! If you have any questions about a challenge, contact the appropriate chair listed below. |
GUILD CHALLENGEChair: Beverly SpursTheme: What’s on Your (Barn) Wall?
The challenge this time is to make a quilt out of one very large quilt square. It must be between 36 to 40 inches square with minimal or no borders. You will be using your own fabric, and you may use as many fabrics as you like. However, each fabric must read as “solid”. This means using solids, tone-on-tones, batiks, hand-dyed fabrics, etc. |
Barn quilts are an American folk tradition, where a large quilt square design is painted on a wooden panel and attached to a barn wall. The square is usually painted in bright bold colors. We are going to replicate this in a regular quilt! ART QUILT CHALLENGECHAIR: JOAN BARKERTHEME: Dwelling
The Art Quilt Association (AQuA) defines an art quilt as: "... an original exploration of a concept or idea rather than the handing down of a “pattern”. It experiments with textile manipulation, color, texture and/or a diversity of mixed media. An Art Quilt often pushes quilt world boundaries. An Art Quilt should consist predominately of fiber or a fiber-like material with one or multiple layers which are held together with stitches or piercing of the layers." For this challenge, your quilt should represent any place that is a home for human, animal or critter. Put on your creative thinking cap! The perimeter of your project should be at least 60 inches with a maximum 120 inches. |
The Art Group (which meets the 2nd Mondays from 1:30 to 4:30 PM at the Farmhouse) has challenged themselves to create an art quilt with the theme "Dwelling". This challenge is also open to any GQCCC member, too!PASS THE ENVELOPECHAIR: KATHY CALLAHAN
NOTE: Signups for 2025 are already complete. Look for an announcement for the 2026 signups in April or May of 2025, sometime after the quilt show. |
This challenge is similar to the childhood game of "Telephone" and is worked in a chain. The first person in the chain gets an inspiration photograph and makes a 9 x 12 inch quilt based on their interpretation of the photo. The next person in the chain never sees the photograph but uses the 9 x 12 inch quilt they receive from the person before them in the chain as their inspiration for their 9 x 12 inch quilt. The chain continues, as each person uses the quilt of the person before them as the inspiration for their quilt. Each person in the chain has one month to complete their project before passing it to the next person. This is very fun to do and is not as time consuming as making a larger quilt.