RENO, NV - JUNE 20 - 22 LOUISVILLE, KY - AUG 30 - SEP 1 LINCOLN, NE - NOV 7 - 9 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - JAN 9 - 11

Quilt Displays

Hope for Tomorrow Quilts Feed Needy Children
Sponsored by Buckboard Quilts
(Reno)

Everyone loves our little 9"x12" Children themed quilts and loves to make them too.

We will be selling the quilts with 100% of donated quilts going to a local charity. At our Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show this year we raised $11,200.

With your help, we can benefit our local charities. To learn more or to donate quilts contact Judy Howard at BuckboardQuilts@cox.net.

The SewBatik Challenge
sponsored by SewBatik

Currently in its fifth year, the Annual SewBatik Challenge has become a favorite for both participants and attendees of the National Quilting Association Show.

Sponsored by SewBatik, participants receive a quarter yard of the selected Challenge fabric, and create small quilts based on the Annual Show Theme.

Ten awards are given each year for a variety of workmanship and design accomplishments. This Mariner’s Compass exhibit is from the 43rd Annual NQA Quilt Show held in 2012 in Columbus, Ohio.

Mason Dixon Quilt Professionals Network Presents:  ‘Reflections’ Quilt Challenge
(Lincoln)

Re·flec´tions n. pl. 1. To throw or bend back (e.g., light) from a surface. 2. To form an image of; mirror. 3. To manifest; show. 4. To think seriously.

The word ‘Reflections’ is the theme for the MDQPN’s 2013-14 Quilt Challenge. Members were asked to make a quilt which would interpret a ‘reflection’ literally, spiritually, emotionally or physically. The results range from the whimsical, to the thoughtful, the serene and even the patriotic!

MDQPN members are quilt artists, teachers, designers, authors, judges, appraisers, hand/machine quilters and notions/tool manufactures.


ROUTE 66 Quilts Traveling Exhibition - Showcase of "The Mother Road"
(Reno)


This juried challenge exhibition includes quilts sized 24" x 30" portrait & landscape orientation and will travel to quilt and museum venues for up to 3 years. All quilts represent an aspect of the historic Route 66 highway.


“Old Quilts Made New” Special Quilt Display
sponsored by Pam Clarke, Teacher, Quilter and Collector!
(Louisville - Lincoln)

Pam has been collecting vintage quit tops since she started quilting in1970. She just loves the older fabrics and loves finishing quilt tops whether by hand or machine. In her collection she has tried to keep the quilting in the traditional style of that era. She uses her quilting talents and makes no changes or re- sets the top unless it is in really poor condition. Pam says, “I feel that every quilt deserves to be finished, and it is my goal to complete all the ones I’ve collected.”
 
Her favorite quilts are Log Cabins, Dresden Plates and Grandmother’s Flower Garden. She has found these tops everywhere she travels; in antique shops, on E-bay etc. Pam has a few appliqué quilts in her collection, but these are very rare to find and in good condition. She teaches a class called, “Blending the Old with the New,” and it is one of her favorites. In this class she discusses how to finish these tops, fixing any problems before quilting and cleaning, along with a slide show of over 50 quilts. Check out all of Pam’s classes on the class schedule. Be sure and stop by this special quilt display area and see Pam’s fabulous quilts!

Crazy Patch
sponsored by Allie Allison / Allie’s In Stitches

From her first crazy quilt completed in 2001 until the present, this exhibit shows some of the major work created by Allison Aller. Allison takes crazy quilt to a higher level of such richness - in color, in embellishment and in construction using small bits of beloved fabrics weights and type of threads.

  Creative Crones and Chicks Art Challenge

Each month Fabric-Chicks Creative Oasis hosts a meeting with a group of women who love to challenge each other to think outside of the box and explore their creativity. Each month every member puts a word into the box - whatever word is chosen - each member goes home and creates a small project, inspired by the word that was chosen. The challenges are to create something about the size of a fat quarter (18" X 22"ish). Every month we demonstrate or explain the techniques we each used.

"We try new things…it's not about doing it right, it’s about exploring and finding new and different techniques!"

One member said, "The challenge is to do something new and different and stretching into new possibilities of quilting and art."

This group is open to all that would like to join. It meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 6:30pm at Fabric-Chicks in Minden, NV

Fabrics Unlimited in Tahoe also has a very similar group…they were our inspiration!!!

Current members include Crones Judi Corrado, Lisa Du Coing, Becky Cozzi, Joan Costa, Norma Coffey, Beth Watts, Jodi Shumate and Gracie Watts the Chick.
 

“The Chairatable Affair”
Sponsored by FABRIC‐CHICKS and elinor peace bailey CHALLENGE
(Reno)

See this fun filled challenge of everything that “chairs” have inspired the contestants…..quilts, made over chairs, dolls, you name it….

All entries will be on display during the Sew Original Quilt & Creative Expo at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV, June 20-22, 2013.

If you would like to enter our Challenge, click for  Complete Details (PDF) and Application Form