​Helen Hardwick Miniature Quilt Challenge

Don't forget to  enter your challenge quilt in the 2024 Quilt Show.

In order to enter your Helen Hardwick Miniature Quilt in the 2024 Quilt Show, you must complete an entry form.  Even if you didn't finish your quilt for the Guild Challenge, you may still enter in the Miniature Class.  Please click on the Quilt Show Entry - 2024 Tab above. 

The theme of this year’s Helen Hardwick Miniature Quilt Challenge is “A Bed of Roses.”
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Roses come in practically every color on the wheel.  For this challenge, however, you are asked to use colors on the warm side of the color wheel, for example, reds, oranges, yellows.  Fifty percent of your quilt must include shades and tints of your chosen color, (or colors).
 
Use one of the following rose names as the title of your miniature quilt: Leaping Salmon, Night Owl, Olympic Flame, Pearl, Penny Lane, Queen Bee, Rock ’n Roll, Mandarin, Ebb Tide, Golden Angel, Honey Bunch, King Arthur, Iceberg, Ruby, Peace, or Enchantress. Please select only one rose from this list.  The rose names are from the website countrygardenroses.co.uk.  Rose photos are posted to the right.  You may click on the photo to download a copy,
 
One of the following two miniature quilt patterns must be used as a starting point for your quilt: “Winter Mini Quilt” or “Pastel Party”. Search for either pattern at www.allpeoplequilt.com or follow the links.  
 
At least one block from one of these patterns must be in your quilt, but from there you can use your own design within the color and size limits of the challenge.  You may, of course, make a quilt using either pattern, as is, conforming to the color and size limits. 
 
Quilts may be any shape (square, rectangle, octagon, etc.), but the completed quilt must fit in a square measuring 20 x 20 inches. A miniature quilt is a scaled down version of a larger quilt.  It should not be easy to determine from a photograph whether the quilt is small or large. In addition to piecing and quilting, other techniques such as appliqué or embroidery may be used in the construction of the quilt.

Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild: Let’s get our Fiber on!
 Fiber challenge: 
Use any fiber to express an emotion. (Joy, warm, fuzzy, happy, love, and so on)

1. Make a wearable item, sweater, shawl, scarf, hat, gloves, socks, etc. Must be wearable, not carried.
2.  Use knitting, crocheting, weaving, or felting to make your item.
3.  Enter into the challenge no later than October 1, 2023.
4. Bring your item to model at the November Guild Meeting.
5. Bring a write up of the emotion your item expresses to the November Guild Meeting.

 
Wearable entries to the 2024 Quilt Show are encouraged, but you must complete all quilt show timeline and entry requirements.
 
Please contact Donna Ireland or Juli Neal for additional information.

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​2024 Emma Allebes Art Challenge

This year is another easy year for the art challenge.  Create a landscape using the components listed below. Use any style or method you wish—abstract, realistic, whimsical, etc.

The following components must be included in your quilt, but as always, your imagination is the limit. 

• Sky 
• Mountain(s) 
• Water (1 1/2” on one side, 2 1/2” on the other side) The water can have a lake in it or a meandering stream or anything you feel like creating. 
• Structure—home, cabin, castle, etc.  The structure can be anything you like. It could be your home, a very small cabin on the mountain, a outhouse, a large coliseum or castle, your favorite store or anything, large or small.
• 20" high X 30" wide (horizontal orientation)

 Your quilt must have three layers and have a hanging sleeve attached to the back.  The finished quilt should be 20" high and 30" wide. Please enter your creation in the 2024 art challenge category on the entry forms for our annual show.
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Good luck and above all, have fun.

Questions should be addressed to Penny Hanscom.