Congratulations to our winners this of year's challenge to create a quilt inspired a book with minimum perimeter 72”. Francie Nelson won Best Meets the Challenge and President's Choice and Mary Lou Cunningham won Member's Choice.
Francie Nelson’s entry depicts the book Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, 1952 Size of quilt: 18”x19”.
Charlotte’s Web is a book about friendship (and many other things). In her quilt, she included Charlotte, the confident spider who tries to save Wilber, the shy lonely pig, from being Christmas dinner. Charlotte does this by spinning nice comments about him in her web. The first comment was: “SOME PIG”. Francie changed the comment to “SOME GUILD”. The guild, like Charlotte, also fosters friendship and support to members. Francie loves this book. Francie won First Place for Best Meets the Challenge and President’s Choice.
Mary Lou Cunningham’s entry is inspired by the book Secret
Garden by Fances Hodgson Burnett, Author, Charles Robinson, Illustrator. First
published - British edition 1911. Quilt Pattern - Grandmother's Garden English
paper piece
Mary Lou writes, “This has been a learning quilt for me.
Never did I ever think I would like English paper piecing, but here I am one
quilt later. The biggest thing I learned--I like the 3/8th seam allowance.
Putting the blocks together into a quilt presented another challenge until
Marie, our president, decided her president's challenge would be based on a
book. Immediately, I thought of the
children's book, Secret Garden, which I read more than once in my childhood.
“Here is my secret garden surrounded by a wall with flowers
overflowing the stone wall bringing nature and the garden to those outside the
garden.” Mary Lou won First Place for Member’s Choice.
