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Challenge Quilts
Each year, the Guild offers a challenge whereby Guild-Members can "strut their stuff", showing off creativity, technical accuracy, and ability to get across the message of the theme in accordance with certain rules. The Guild then votes upon the quilts. This year's entries were revealed and voted on at the August 2009 meeting. There were 18 entries this year. (Photos displayed below.)
2009 RULES
- Theme – From Canvas to Quilt
Imagine that a well-known artist (i.e. Rembrandt, Monet, Pollack, Picasso…..) was given access to all of the materials in your quilting room in order to create a masterpiece. Your challenge is to create the “painting” that you imagine this artist would create using your palate of fabrics, threads, and other materials. It may be one of their famous pieces or something else that the artist would have created in their style. The challenge is to demonstrate the artist’s style through use of fabric, color, quilting techniques, textures, value, and other elements of design.- Size - No smaller than 80” around; no larger than 160” around.
- Border - The quilt must have a border that represents a frame, as you would have on a piece of art. The border must have mitered corners.
- Signature - “Sign” the “painting” with the artist's name in the lower right hand corner.
BASIS FOR VOTING
Best of Show vote should go to the quilt that best exhibits all of the elements below.
- Theme vote should go to the quilt that best carries out the theme “From Canvas to Quilt”. i.e. how well the quilter demonstrated the artist’s style through the use of fabric, color, quilting techniques, textures, value, and other elements of design, and best carries out the rules of the challenge.
- Creativity vote should go to the quilt that uses the most unusual and/or original techniques, design, style, detail, etc.
- Workmanship vote should go to the quilt that has the best quality of workmanship – stitch quality, finished look, detail, etc.
Photos!
Notes from Karen, the photographer:
These are thumbnail views - click on for full-size view. To save an image for your computer, right-click on the full-size view and use the "save picture as" function (make sure you have a folder set up to save them to). Note that the "full-size" images I took originally have been resized to make them smaller files to speed downloads and save server space; this affects color and precision.
Some of the photos turned out quite poorly, and I have plans to re-shoot them.
Ardell McGavin, who chaired the Challenge this year, announces the entrants and their quilts. Entries are presented in the numeric order of their display at the August 13th Guild Meeting.
"Azalea" - Made by Kathleen Turner
Winner, 2nd Place for Theme
"The Water Lady" - Made by Sharon Pollock
"Vincent's Pink Tree Under A Starry Night" - Made by Bob Rubanowice
Winner, 2nd Place for Creativity
"Portrait in Black & White" - Made by Sharon Christiansen
"View from the Terrace" - Made by Judy Walker
"The Little Ballerina" - Made by Sherri Croom (Sherri was unavailable
to present her quilt)
"Starry Night" - Made by Dorothy Barr
Winner, 3rd Place for Workmanship
"Sky & Water #1" - Made by Marsha Walper
Winner, 2nd Place for Workmanship
"The Art of Mickey Mouse & Andy Warhol" - Made by Gerry Soule (Gerry was unavailable to present the quilt) 
"Madonna (In Cotton)" - Made by Jessica Duke
Winner, 3rd Place for Creativity
"Portrait of June by the Salt Marsh" - Made by Barbara Hoagland
Winner, 1st Place for Workmanship
"Evening Star in Fabric" - Made by Betty Rinkel 
"The Backless Dress" - Made by Barb Ward 
"Petunia by Georgia O’Keeffe" - Made by Janet Frank
Winner, 1st Place for Theme
"Lady In Waiting: A Self Portrait" - Made by Vickie Hooks
Winner, 1st Place for Creativity
"Gustav’s Gyres" - Made by Charlotte Williams (Charlotte was unavailable to present her quilt)
Winner, 3rd Place for Theme
"Dupioni Zinnias" - Made by Linda Dozier
Winner, BEST OF SHOW
"Man with a Hoe" - Made by Martha Tilden
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