Every year members are presented with a challenge, usually in the form of a piece of fabric and a few instructions or guidelines. Past challenges have included completing an unfinished project, creating a bag using recycled materials, and an ice cream challenge. It’s always exciting to see the creativity of the members on display and picking out a favorite often proves to be the real challenge.
2026 Challenge: Logo Colors
Your challenge this year is to create a fiber arts project using all six colors of the new Quilters Etc. logo pictured below. It can be quilted, sewn, knitted, crocheted, cross stitched, etc. as long as it is primarily a fiber arts project. For those of you using fabric, there is a chart below with the hex numbers for the colors used in the logo and comparable colors in Kona and Moda Bella Solids.
Requirements
- May be any fiber arts project (quilt, embroidery, cross stitch, knit, …).
- You must use all 6 colors.
- Solids are not required.
- Close is good enough for color matching.
- No additional colors are allowed.
- Project is due at the October meeting.
| Color Chart | |||
| Hex # RGB | Kona Solids | Moda Bella Solids | DMC Gloss |
| 262262 38 34 98 | Regal | Nautical Blue | 336 |
| 00b3b3 0 179 179 | Breakers | Bright Turquoise | 3845 |
| ffcb05 255 203 5 | Duckling | Mustard | 725 |
| 702f86 112 47 134 | Velvet | Pansy | 552 |
| f05578 240 85 120 | Azalea | Pomegranate | 602 |
| fff6d3 255 246 211 | Putty | Almond | Ecru |
2025 Challenge: Spool Souffle
a free pattern from the Fat Quarter Shop
Go to the Fat Quarter Shop to download the Spool Souffle Quilt pattern. (While you’re there, look around their web site at all they offer: fabric, kits, patterns!)
Follow the pattern directions, make as many spools as you’d like and create any size finished project you’d like, from a placemat, a tote bag, a wall hanging, to a full sized quilt, or anything in between. Group projects are allowed.
Due date: October 23, 2025, at the October guild meeting. Bring your completed project in an anonymous paper bag and deliver to one of the Challenge Quilt Co-Chairs. All the entries will be displayed so we can enjoy the creativity and variety of projects all using the same pattern. To wrap up the challenge with a fun twist, guild members will try to guess who made which project.
2024 Challenge: A Dream
Imagine a creative fiber arts project, made with materials and supplies – everything you need – available right now in your own home! You don’t need to purchase anything. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and repurpose, using only materials and supplies that you have on hand.
- Theme: A Dream
- Size: No larger than 30×30 – any shape.
- Due Date: October 24, 2024 Guild Meeting
So get ready…get set…Sew ! And /or embroider, weave, quilt, crochet, knit, thread paint, collage, etc. I hope you feel inspired to explore and enjoy your creative journey by participating.
Please bring your completed creation for Show & Tell to our October 24, 2024 meeting. This project is just for fun, no voting on “the best” nor “viewer’s choice.” Thank you.