CWAP Challenge 2010

WHAT ARE YOU WILD ABOUT? … zebras … rainbows … the color pink! ... merry-go-rounds…tulips and roses … puppies or kittens… your grandchildren…mild-life crisis … amish quilts … your boss/spouse/kids who drive you crazy… baseball … red hot rods … chocolate … gourmet cooking … Gone with the Wind … gardens … wine … the ocean … mountains … your fabric stash … moonlight walks … what??? The 2010 CWAP Challenge is about stretching your wings and flying. Not the same old, same old stuff. If you haven’t tried a Challenge entry before, this is a good one to try. You are not limited by traditional categories – in fact, you will not be putting your entry into a category at all! The rules are simple and awards numerous, the challenge fabric is fun – and you can make any kind of quilt that you want. Give yourself permission to have fun! Kits are now availabe at OCQG Meetings or by phone or via registration. Download Entry Form

The Rules (for quilt creation):

1. Take a walk on the wild side, and have fun!
    
2. Make a quilt interpreting the theme of “Wild Thing” and give it a snazzy title.
    
3. Size:
   Minimum perimeter measurement of 120” (eg 30”x30”, 24”x36”, circle diameter=38”)
   Maximum perimeter measurement of 200” (eg 50”x50”, 42”x58”, circle diameter=63”)
    
4. Both Challenge fabrics are to be an identifiable focal element of the quilt. It need not dominate the quilt – but it should not be hidden in the background. A minimum of 12 square inches of each Challenge fabric must show on the front of the quilt; binding does not count in this tabulation.
    
5. Quilt definition:
   
   • two layers of fabric with soft stuff sandwiched in between,
   • the whole kit and caboodle is stitched together across the face of the quilt,
   • the raw perimeter is finished with binding,
   • a label (minimum info: quilters name, title of quilt and date of completion) sewn to the back of the quilt,
   • top must be made by entrant(s); may be quilted by another.

Deadline: quilts may be turned in at any of the OCQG general meetings up through the June 8th, 2010 meeting.

Alternatively, quilts may be brought / mailed (please call for directions) to

Kathryn Nolte’s home (562) 690-3378
- or -
Cathy Farris’s  (714) 692-1599

no later than Friday June 25th, 2010. The Quilt Number (provided in Challenge Kit) must be pinned in the lower right corner of the back of the quilt. Quilts should be neatly folded and placed inside the numbered bag provided with the Challenge Kit.

Other Important Stuff:

1. Kit Cost: $15; additional challenge fabric may be purchased at $8.00 per yard.
2. All entrants will receive a beautiful participation pin.
3. Campers who are not members of OCQG are encouraged in the Challenge, too.
4. Group quilts are ok.
5. Quilts will not be sorted into traditional categories of pieced, appliqué, and mixed… or any other sort of category. Let’s get out of our box, quilters!
6. Each quilt will be considered for all awards – see Judging Criteria and Awards, below. Each entry will only be eligible for one award (exception: Viewer’s Choice will be awarded as the visitors of the Challenge display see fit).
7. All quilts will be displayed at CWAP 2010 from Sunday through Wednesday (times tba). Viewers’ Choice voting will close on Wednesday after lunch, and awarded at the Banquet. Please pick up your entry on Wednesday after class between 4 and 4:45 pm, or at the August OCQG General Meeting.

 Judging Criteria: Judging will be based on:

• 60% design (overall impact, effective use of color, balance, originality/innovation), and
• 40% workmanship
• Extra weight shall be given to original designs

Judge(s) in concert with Challenge Chairperson shall make the final determination about the eligibility of a quilt to complete and whether to confer an award.

Download Entry Form