The President’s Challenge this year is to create a quilt inspired by a pet or any animal.  The perimeter should be a minimum of 72” (that’s only 18” on a side, for instance, but can be as large as you’d like).  Bring quilts to be judged at the Holiday Party in December.  Pictures of the completed quilts along with a brief description of how it represents your pet/animal are due to Alberta Dalke by the Dec 3^rd meeting.  Please email them to Alberta.  Judging is planned for the December 13^th Holiday Party.  Categories are: Best Meets the Challenge; Members Choice; President’s Choice.

The President’s Challenge for 2024 is to create a quilt inspired by a book.  Even though the book may have been made into a movie, there are usually differences, so bear that in mind and focus on the book.  The perimeter should be a minimum of 72” (that’s only 18” on a side, for instance, but can be as large as you’d like). Bring quilts to be judged at the Holiday Party in December. Pictures of the completed quilts along with a description of how it represents the chosen book are due Dec. 4 to Alberta Dalke. Categories are: Best Meets the Challenge; Members Choice; President’s Choice.

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.