Challenging Fabric Challenge

2025 Challenging Fabric Challenge - the results!

This is the fabric our brave quilters were asked to use to create a quilt this year. The 19 quilts that were entered got over 1,200 votes during the two week voting period!

Viewer's Choice winners get $100, $50, and $25 gift cards!

In third place, enjoy Party in the Round by Cathy Shepard! She says " Once you add the calliope music to these fanciful carousel animals it's party time!"

 

In second place, let's congratulate Catherine Sredzienski of Hillsborough with her quilt, Morning Walk. Catherine says "Finished size--24 x 27 inches. I loved using lots of hidden figures from the challenge fabric in my first collage-style quilt. I also utilized the underside of fabric quite a bit. The birch frame with the live edge was a fun challenge. This was such a fun project!"

 

In first place, with 231 votes, Katie Greenwood of Cary had fun interpreting Victoria Findlay Wolfe's Star Storm pattern with our challenge fabric. Katie says "I was excited to discover the challenging fabric fit perfectly into Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Star Storm Mini pattern."

Congrats to this year's winners!

 

Our 2024 Challenging Fabric Challenge 

Winners!

Originally commissioned and designed by owner Julianne Walther to help people identify skin colors for Portrait Art Quilts, this fabric certainly proved challenging to our brave quilters in the 2024 Challenging Fabric Challenge!
We had 21 quilts entered this year with over 1,050 votes cast. The top 8 quilts earned over 100 votes each!

Sandra Haggett of Durham earned our first place prize - a $100 gift card. She creatively interpreted the challenge fabric into castle bricks! Sandra says "Rapunzel and Puff the Magic Dragon - my favorite fairy tales."
 

Pat Miller of Boone, NC earned a $50 Cary Quilting gift card with "Coffee Break!" Pat says "I knew what the design would be as soon as I viewed the fabric! I LOVE it!" We love how the blue and peachy shades work together.

 

Lauren Piper of Durham earned a $25 gift card for her mini double wedding ring quilt. Lauren said "The color palette and design of my 34" x 38" double wedding ring quilt remind me of the Vermillion Cliffs in Northern Arizona". It's hard to tell from the photo, but each ring is only about 6" across. Lauren was a winner in last year's challenge too!

 

Thanks to everyone who participated this year! We will be sharing some of these quilts with our community as our Meeting Center display in the second half of February and all of March of 2025. Be sure to come and see the challenges in person!

  

2023 Challenging Fabric Challenge winners

CFC for 2023
We have winners!
21 quilts were submitted and over 1,100 votes were cast! These are our Viewer's Choice favorites from this year's Challenge.
 

In first place, we congratulate Lauren Piper of Durham, NC! Lauren says "The sloth fabric inspired me to create a rainforest environment incorporating a modified bargello background with starched turned appliqué for this 50” x 70” quilt."

Lauren Piper's quilt

 

In second place, say hello to Blue Magic by Sue O'Guin of Ocean Isle Beach, NC. Sue says "I'm calling this "Blue Magic", because somehow blue sloth hair magically transformed into blue feathers of the herons, background fabric magically turned into top notch and legs, tree branches turned into small cattails, and even a few flowers magically showed up on the driftwood log."


Sue O'Guin's Quilt

 

In third place, we have Baby Brown Eyes by Kara Kluszynski of Garner, NC. She says "Starting life as a white fur rug, Baby Brown Eyes was hand dyed and spray painted then brushed before climbing into a favorite tree of the friends and family that surround him."

Kara K's quilt

 

 

 Challenging Fabric Challenges begin in August each year - we hope you'll participate next year!