2025 CHALLENGE

MATRIOTISM

Celebrating 250 Years
of Inspirational American Women Through Quilts

Rules for creating your MATRIOTISM 2025 Challenge Quilt:

 

Your subject may be any American women of the past 250 years – a specific person, movement of women or group of women.

  • Any technique may be used – hand work, machine, pieced, appliqué, collage and any style  – art, modern, traditional.
  • Quilt must have 3 layers – top, batting & back.
  • Minimum size is 20” on each side and Maximum 45” on each side. Total circumference is a minimum of 80” and a maximum of 180”.
  • Your quiilt must have a straight upper edge with a hanging sleeve appropriate for the size of the quilt. No support features such as dowels or rods are allowed. All embellishments must be securely fastened. Please! no glitter.
  • You must be a member of ECQG to enter. Click here to join.
  • Quilt must be made between January 2025 and October 2025.
  •  Quilt will be due the week of the October Guild Meetings. Specific information on how to submit your quilt will be provided closer to the due date.
  • When Matriotism Challenge quilts are submitted at the October 2025 Guild meetings, members will vote to select their favorite quilts.
  • We encourage all Matriotism Challenge quilt makers to allow their quilts to be a part of the Matriotism Quilt Exhibition, which will tour the state between October 2025 and September 2027. During this time, the quilts will remain in the care of the Challenge Committee.

Questions?  Challenge 2025 Advisor: Devon Pfeif

ENTER your Matriotism Quilt

Here are some suggestions to help you determine the subject of your quilt. You may choose an individual or a group, contemporary or historical, well-known or yet-to-be discovered. She may be Georgia-specific or nationally based.

  • Activists
  • Actresses
  • Architects
  • Artists
  • Astronauts
  • Athletes/coaches
  • Authors/Journalists
  • Business leaders
  • Chefs
  • Child care workers
  • Civil servants
  • Educators
  • Fashion icons
  • Fictional characters
  • First Ladies
  • Historical figures
  • Homemakers
  • Military personnel
  • Musicians
  • Non-profit leaders
  • Politicians, elected officials
  • Religious leaders
  • Scientists

 

In addition, these two websites are great resources for your research.

 

  • Established in 1988 by Rosalynn Carter, Georgia Women of Achievement, Inc. in Macon, GA created the Georgia Women’s Hall of Fame, listing approximately 110 honorees with bios, photos, dates. This is an excellent resource. Georgiawomen.org

     

  • USA Today listed top 10 women of note from every state in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. All lived between 1920 and 2020.  USA Today Women of the Century
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