2024 CHALLENGE

Rules for creating your MUSICAL MADNESS 2024 Challenge Quilt:
- Your entry should represent one of your favorite pieces of music as a quilt!
- Be imaginative with respect to Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Timbre, Form and where the quilt will be presented! We will talk about each of these at meetings in early 2023.
- Your quilt may be made in any manner: machined, hand done, pieced, appliqué, embellished, traditional, modern, or mixed techniques.
- It must have three quilted layers.
- Minimum size is 30” on each side, and maximum size is 60” on each side. But it needn’t be square or rectangular! (A piano shaped quilt?!) but it must have a minimum binding length of 120” and a maximum of 240”.
- It must be made between January 2023 and January 2024.
- You must be a current guild member to participate in the challenge.
- And you should expect to show your quilt at the January 2024 meeting with an audible snippet of the music that motivated you!
Questions? Challenge Advisor: Beau Palmer
Inspirational Videos from Beau:
The Baroque Era
The Classical Era









2023 CHALLENGE RUBY RUBY
1st PLACE
Ruby
Quilt Maker: Debbee West
60 inches W x 60 inches L
I always wanted to make Convex Illusions. When the ruby challenge came up, I decided to go ruby! I put 40 seed beads in the center to help the quilt glint when light hits it.
2nd Place
40 Hidden Rubies
Quilt Maker: Judy Weathers
36 inches W x 36 inches L
The quilt holds 40 ruby beads through the quilt. I used an Amy Pabst pattern from her log cabin book. It is hand quilted with dark, medium and light reds to celebrate 40 years for ECQG. I used foundation piecing for each block made with various cotton scraps.
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