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.
• 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.
• A special exhibit of some quilts will be hung throughout 2026, so those will remain with the Special Exhibits Chair the entire year. Those quilts will be available, for entry into our 2026 Georgia Celebrates Quilts Show.

When the Matriotism quilts are submitted at the October, 2025 Guild meetings, members will vote to select their favorite quilts. Makers of these challenge quilts will be asked to allow the quilts to tour as an exhibit in 2026, our nation’s 250th anniversary. The quilts included in the traveling exhibit will be selected by a jury to be announced later. Not all quilts may be selected, due to the size constraints of the exhibition spaces.

Questions?  Challenge 2025 Advisor: Devon Pfeif