The MONARCH Cherrywood Challenge is currently traveling (2024)

The POPPY Challenge will start it's tour Fall 2024 and continue 2025.

The ABYSS Challenge started October 1 and is DUE May 2025

Every year, Cherrywood chooses a theme and color palette and presents a challenge to quilters from all over the world. The challenge is to see what you can create using a very limited number of colors, and show of the beautiful suede look of our hand-dyed fabric.

• Quilt must be 20-inches square
• Quilts must use the designated bundle of fabric from Cherrywood
• Quilts must take inspiration from the theme
• Quilts can use any technique or embellishment, as long as the main focus is on the theme colors.
• A panel of jurors selects a designated number of quilts from digital submissions for the Traveling Exhibit
• Prizes are awarded
• Traveling exhibit is displayed at quilt shows and galleries nationally (and sometime internationally!)
• After the tour is finished, the quilts are returned to the artists

The Cherrywood Challenge is announced in October every year. Quilts are due for submission the following spring/summer (dates vary).

Requests to exhibit the trunk shows are taken HERE.

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