Border challenge quilts

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Carolyn Beam   Charlotte Hughlett   Chris  Czyszczewski   Joan Flowers

This is how the border challenge worked.  Each member of the group designed and pieced a central block.  This block would set the color scheme and tone for the rest of the quilt, and the person who made the central block for a given quilt would eventually get that quilt back.  After the quilter created the central block, she would pass that block on to the next person on the list, who would add a border, and then pass it along to the next person, who would add another border, etcetera, until everyone in the group had contributed a border to everyone else's quilt.  The quilts were exchanged every month at first, and later on, the deadlines were extended to two months because the borders were getting bigger and took longer to complete.  We also didn't allow the "owner" to see the progress on her own quilt, until we had an unveiling party the summer of 1998. After all the borders were completed, each person got her own quilt back.  These quilts were finished in time to be displayed at the 1999 Capitol Quilt Show in the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.  They were also displayed at the 2000 Interfaith Quilters Show & Sale in March of 2000. One of the most interesting things to me about these quilts is how different they all are, even though the same eight people worked on them.  We are all aware of the different tastes of the members of our group.  Those with contemporary tastes were able to add very nice borders to very traditional, country-style quilts, and vice versa, so that the end results reflected the tastes of the owners of each quilt.

Judy Cook   Melody Munson   Millie Haney   Teresa Creech