The Annual Challenge

The annual challenge inspires creativity and offers winning opportunities. The challenge period runs for a year from October through September.

2025 Initials Challenge

Use your initials (it doesn't matter which order) to make a quilt. One initial for a color, one initial for a block name, and one initial for the quilting (stitching) design. We'll show the quilts and award prizes at the September 2025 meeting. Have fun with it!

• You can use your maiden name for an initial or the initial for the nickname you're known by, such as Beth, Betsy, or Liza, instead of Elizabeth.


• Color names can be paint chips from the hardware store or fabric color names, such as cornflower, Cajun orange, Iris purple, limeade.


• Your choices should be a noticeable portion of the quilt, but feel free to use as many other colors, blocks, and quilting designs as you want.


• Quilts can be up to 40 inches on a side.


• Bring the paint chip, fabric swatch, or web page illustrating your color to display with your quilt.

Examples
Amy B. Smith could use apple green color, Bear's Paw block, and cables in her quilting. Or she could use apple core quilting design, butterscotch color, and a star block.

See the Generations Quilt Block Patterns Library for approximately 200 block names and pictures.

See the Quilting Smith Design Library for quilting designs.

2024 "Be's to Live By" Challenge

See the October 2024 newsletter to see pictures of the 2024 entries.

See the Challenge Archive pdf to view earlier challenges.