Quilt Show 2025 Challenges
Each year the PVQA Quilt Show poses some fun challenges for quilters.
You can participate in these fun challenges. Find more information below.
Information on other challenges will be posted as received.
You must be a PVQA member to enter your work in the Challenge categories.
Deadline for entries is January 13, 2025.
Square Dance
2025 Quilt Show Challenge Quilt
Each year there is an opportunity for guild members to create a quilt around a theme for the February show. This year the theme is “Square Dance.” This is a non-judged category and open to all members, new or old. Please join the fun and create your own interpretation of this year’s theme! The requirements/rules are few and you are encouraged to enter your creation.
Make a SQUARE QUILT of any style which is no smaller than 36” nor larger than 48” square. Let your colors and design make your entry dance! (There are no special fabrics to use in this challenge.)
Remember a quilt has 3 layers that are quilted together by hand or machine and are bound. Please add a 4”sleeve at the top for hanging.
Questions? Contact Jill Walker, Challenge Quilt chairperson. Members should use their Roster. Non-members can contact Jill using the Quilt Show Contact Form.
2025 Quilt Show Wearables Challenge and
Wearables Walkabout
The Wearable Challenge this year, should you choose to participate, is creating fabric to use in a garment. The ideas could be dye, Tie Dye, Ice Dye, stamp, paint, use Solvey to create fabric, Batik, Cyanotype etc, etc, etc. We welcome all skill levels to enter a wearable piece of art that you created showing a special technique, a unique expression of your imagination or an item that is reused or repurposed. We will accept any wearable that you have made. We want to encourage making wearables and not discourage anyone from entering an item they have made.
The Wearables Group is also requesting entries for the Wearables Walkabout. The Wearables Walkabout is a walking display of wearable art that will take place on Saturday and Sunday at the Quilt Show in February. We welcome all skill levels to enter a wearable piece of art that you created showing a special technique.
Only a very few kits are left for members to get the block challenge fabrics. The cost is $4, cash or check made out to PVQA. The challenge is to make a PATCHWORK block using BOTH challenge fabrics. The size of the block is 10.5 square. Any pattern is OK and quilters can use their own fabrics as well.
DEADLINE for the blocks is Jan.15th and the kit includes a return envelope. There is enough fabric in the kit to make more than one block, as each piece of the challenge fabric is 12" square. If someone sends more than 1 block, their name gets 1 name in the drawing for each block, i.e.2 blocks, 2 chances. A name will be drawn at the March meeting and the winner will get ALL the blocks and leftover fabric. The name of the challenge this year is Do You Speak Plaid?. To get one of the last block kits, members should contact Lani Lopez Gardner using the information in their Roster.