Magical Power of Rubies
The Quilt & Fiber Challenge 2025 highlights the Ruby (gem), which symbolizes the milestone of a 40th anniversary!
Come join in the fun of getting your own Ruby-colored velvet bag of goodies to use in your fiber piece/quilt!
Bonus: you determine the dimensions of your fiber piece/quilt!
Challenge Guidelines for you Quilt & Fiber Entry:
Deadlines
July 8, 2025 – please bring your completed challenge entry to the Guild Meeting.
Awards
Popular Vote – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Come join in the fun of getting your own Ruby-colored velvet bag of goodies to use in your fiber piece/quilt!
Bonus: you determine the dimensions of your fiber piece/quilt!
Challenge Guidelines for you Quilt & Fiber Entry:
- Must include 8 types of items from the 10 types of items in your velvet (embellishment) bag
- Must be a clearly apparent to have rubies (jewel) in either color and/or symbolism
- Any type of item can be created for the challenge: home décor, accessory, clothing, quilt, wall hanging, horse blanket, etc.
- Your choice of fiber and/or fabric.
- Any artistic, craft, or quilt-making technique to create your piece
- A limited number of embellishment kits in velvet bags are available for participants of the Magical Power of Rubies - Quilt & Fiber Challenge. First come, first served.
- A photo of the original items from the embellishment kit must be submitted with the completed item.
- No size limit on your fiber piece and/or quilt.
Deadlines
July 8, 2025 – please bring your completed challenge entry to the Guild Meeting.
Awards
Popular Vote – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Emma Allebes Art Quilt Challenge
We’ll be creating artwork from words in the book The Wizard of Oz. Just take a passage from the book and illustrate it in an original way. There are so many possibilities. The book has characters, landscapes, architecture, room scenes, etc., a well-rounded set of choices.
Please don’t just duplicate pictures from the book or scenes from the movie — use them as inspiration — use your imagination! It can be abstract, realistic, or anything in between.
Please don’t just duplicate pictures from the book or scenes from the movie — use them as inspiration — use your imagination! It can be abstract, realistic, or anything in between.
- Size: 20” x 30”.
- Orientation: Horizontal or vertical.
- Embellishment: Natural, handmade or store purchased or any combination.
- Color: Include the color ruby.
- Finish: Three layers finished using any technique or style you wish with a standard sleeve and label.
- Enter your finished art in our annual 2026 show under Emma Allebes Art Challenge.
- In the write up for the show, please mention the phrase or scene that inspired your artwork.