QT Challenge Quilts

The Quilting Today Challenge Exhibit

The QuiltTownUSA Gallery offers you a look at quilts from some of the premiere quilters in the USA.

It is a place where you can come whenever you are looking for some inspiration. You will find beautiful and creative quilts always on display. Visit us again and again; the exhibits are constantly changing. Stay as long as you like. Our doors never close.

Currently on display are the Quilting Today Challenge Quilts. Introduced in 1995 by Quilting Today magazine, the Quilting Today Challenge has produced some extraordinary quilts. There are two parts to every challenge:

In the first part, readers make blocks in the chosen theme and send them to Quilting Today.
In the second part, the teacher selects the winning blocks and makes them into a quilt.

The winning blocks and finished quilt are published in Quilting Today magazine. The quilt becomes a part of the Quilting Today Challenge Exhibit.

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The Bovine QT Challenge Bovine Moomories (each panel is 38" square) by Mary Stori and the Quilting Today readers. Mary says, "The enthusiastic response to the Bovine Challenge was quite amazing! I think the laughs you get from seeing these quilts will inspire you, as it did me."

The Naturalization QT Challenge Move Over, Betsy (69" x 90") by Christiane Meunier and the Quilting Today readers. "Every step in becoming an American citizen was an emotional experience," says Christiane, "including the making of this quilt. I started making a quilt with a "safe," grid-like design. That's when it struck me, the original idea wasn't to make a "safe" design, but on e that expressed what it meant for me to be an American. I immediately knew what I wanted to do, make a flag quilt using an abundance of fabric."	The Houses QT Challenge There's No Place Like Home (65" x 76 1/2") by Sharyn Craig and the Quilting Today readers. "The purpose of a challenge is to push us into doing something we've never done before," says Sharyn. "The hardest part of working on this quilt was to create a design that would enhance and feature each and every one of the absolutely wonderful blocks."

The Stars QT Challenge Stars of Enchantment (75" square) by Gail Garber and the Quilting Today readers. "There were so many wonderful blocks, each with their own form of enchantment, 133 blocks in all, choosing was really difficult," said Gail. "I hadn't planned on making a Southwestern quilt, but sometimes it's impossible to resist the colors and culture of the ever-present influence of my home state."	The Flowers QT Challenge The Garden Party (52" x 75") by Sherry Sunday and the Quilting Today readers. Sherry says, "To me, this world evokes images and opportunities for exploration and change. Little did I realize the greatest challenge would be choosing which inspirational blocks to use in my quilt. I wanted to create the feeling of a garden party in which each flower "guest" plays a special part."

The Christmas QT Challenge Christmas Quilts (32" x 55" and 73" x 76") by Mimi Shimp and the Quilting Today readers. "When I accepted the Quilting Today Challenge, I certainly had no idea what to expect, " Mimi said. "I decided to make two quilts because the blocks in the smaller quilt seemed to work especially well together."

The Favorite Quotation QT Challenge The Quotation Quilt (63" X 64") by Pepper Cory and the Quilting Today readers. "My job in assembling the winning blocks was to artistically hold them together" Pepper said. "All of the blocks show a clear connection between their quotation and illustration." "I thank the Quilting Today readers for the opportunity to make this quilt."	The Inked Quilt QT Challenge Eleven Elegant Inkings (51" x 63") is the product of a joint effort by Susan McKelvey and Quilting Today readers. She launched the challenge back in Issue 65. Readers made the blocks and Susan assembled them.

The Cat Challenge Quilt Cat loving quilters joined Bonnie Jean Rosenbaum in making "The Cat Challenge Quilt" (64" x 83"). With so many wonderful blocks, Bonnie said it was difficult to choose only a few to use in the quilt. Bonnie added mice to accompany the cats in play. Vel Saddington, a dear friend of Bonnie's from Quilter's Dream Come True, did the machine quilting.	The Flying Geese Challenge Quilt Flying Geese take on a patriotic flair in "Red, White and Blue All Over" (64" x 78"), a quilt that Merry May assembled using blocks made by Quilting Today readers. For more information about Merry's classes or lectures, write to her via e-mail at Inspectr@cluesew.com.

The Angel Challenge Quilt "Angel Friends" (51" square) is a flight of whimsy that gained its 'wings' when Quilting Today readers and Mary Lou Weidman joined their talents.	The String-Pieced Challenge Quilt Scrap lovers pieced one-of-a-kind blocks for the "String-Pieced Block Quilt" (59" x 61") by co-editor Elsie Campbell.

Birdhouse Challenge Quilt Just as the saying goes: Little by little, the bird builds its nest. It took a few months for Arlene Stamper and readers of Quilting Today to build this lovely community titled "Birdhouse Challenge Quilt" (65" x 75").	Baskets of Plenty Quilt Darlene Christopherson is an expert at bringing out the best of patchwork and appliqué and having them work together. These readers did the same in the blocks of "Baskets of Plenty" (77 1/2" square), which Darlene then assembled into this completed quilt.