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250 Years of American Quilters: Honoring Our Quilting Heritage
Includes:
Door prizes,
Bazaar-everything a quilter could want,
yearly raffle quilt,
Quilt Challenge,
3 Tote bags full of goodies to try to win
a Coffee Barista bar and delicious snacks and goodies to purchase
America the Beautiful - a Quilt Challenge
2026 is the 250th Birthday of the United States of America. We will have a special display for all of the quilts submitted. Because this is a challenge, show attendees will be asked to vote for the one they feel best represents the theme for the challenge. Votes will be tallied and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places (with awards) will be given.
Theme: America the Beautiful. Please look at the lyrics, take the song as a whole, or a stanza, or just a phrase, and create a quilt. Please see the lyrics on the following page. Your challenge entry can be whatever you think of when you read the lyrics: National Parks, Monuments (either man-made or natural), Buildings (White House, Capitol Building, Empire State Building, etc, Item (e.g., US or State Flag, Liberty Bell, Bald Eagle, USS Constellation, etc.), Fireworks, Landscape, People, Military, etc. Depict whatever you love about our country.
Colors: Anything you like. Does not have to be red, white, and blue.
Technique: Can be any, some or all of the following: pieced (hand or machine), hand applique, machine applique, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, dimensional fabric, etc. You can embellish with stitching, lace, beads, crystals, dimensional items, thread painting, fabric paints, etc.
Size: At least 15 inches square up to a king-size quilt.
We are excited to see what you create! We hope many of you participate so we are announcing this now to give you plenty of time to think about this challenge, design your quilt, and get it finished!
America the Beautiful
Lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates, Music by Samuel Ward
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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