Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara & Goleta

Challenge Quilts

Challenge 2008

**The Four Seasons**
	To Everything There is a Season by Jeanne Surber	The Four Seasons by Carol Hart
	Summer Blooms by Pat Masterson	The Four Seasons by Marilyn Weal
	Earth's Bouquet by Mary Norton	Tidepools Know No Seasons by Isabel Downs
	October Sunrise by Amaryllis Bridges	Fishing For Divas by Adela Laband
	The Reason For Seasons by Michelle Garbarino	Dappled Sunlight and Blossoms by Lou Ann Smith
	April Showers -- Spring Flowers by Pat Shewzyk	Autumn Breeze by Isabel Bartolome
	summerfallwinterspring by Mary Maxwell	Turn, Turn, Turn by Jan Inouye
	Four Season-ings by Becky Gallup	Simply Spring by Marty Frolli
	Fire Season by Judy Rys	Autumn Leaves by Melissa Frolli
	A Springtime Tale by Barbara Kuhn	Sycamore by Jeana MacMillen
	View from Kitchen Window by Mary Weaver	Full of Life by Kathy Piasecki
	Shenandoah Spring by Karin Cooper

Chair: Gail Tinsley

Is spring your favorite season? It begins on March 20th this year and it will still be spring when we have our Challenge meeting in June. When I think about spring I see gardens full of pastels -- yellows (forsythia and daffodil), purples (hyacinths, violets and lilacs), pinks (dogwoods, magnolias and tulips) and lighter greens. What strikes you when you close your eyes and name the season? Landscapes? Holidays? Vacations? Or . . .?

Award-winning "The Four Seasons" entries require the following:

Use the phrase "The Four Seasons" as your inspiration and take off from there.
Your creation must be a quilt: two layers of cloth enclosing a third layer, held together by a stiched design. Embellish it any way you like.
You must include at least three different colors in your piece, using multiple lights and darks so that there will be at least seven variations of those colors in the final project. If you want to add more colors, that's fine.
Your quilt may be as small as you wish. It should not exceed 72 inches along any one side, and its total outside measurement must be 144 inches or less. The finished piece may be any shape.
Submit only one entry per person or group.
Label your quilt. Include your name, the name of the quilt (if you give it one), and perhaps something about your inspiration and/or the techniques you used.
Attach a four-inch hanging sleeve.