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A Photo Gallery of Your Quilts for Fabric Spark's Colour Challenge 2025
We've been delighted by the participation in our first (possibly, annual!) colour challenge. The idea came together at a Fabric Spark strategy meeting late last year when planning our 5th anniversary campaign.
Our anniversary campaign has been all about showcasing what makes us, well, us! And colour is DEFINITELY us. It's hard not to be struck by the shelves of rainbow hues. Even the staff agree that it's energizing and inspiring place to step into each day. It really is a wonderful world of colourful textiles.
For the month of February, we decided to celebrate colour by challenging our community to design with a limited palette of Andover Century Solids. And what a turn out of submissions!
Read on to learn:
- What the challenge involved,
- About our generous sponsors, and
- Who the lucky winners are.
We've also compiled a photo gallery of over 25 quilts made by our awesome staff and Fabric Spark community members, near and far.
The Colour Challenge Details
If you haven't been following along, here's a little more about the challenge we set.
Participants were asked to create a quilt incorporating ALL of the following five Andover Century Solids: Flax, Margarita, Faded, Isle and Gunmetal. Participants could introduce ANY other colours or fabrics into to the mix or stick to our five.
The submission requirements stated the following:
- All quilt styles and techniques were welcome.
- No minimum size, but the quilt could not be larger than 60” square.
- Quilt tops and finished quilts were accepted.
We weren't sure what the uptake would be for this event, but we were blown away by your enthusiasm for the challenge!
Our two-week-long voting window received over 300 responses - wow! You can scroll through the placed winners AND the submissions below.
The Winning Quilt of the Colour Challenge
First Place Winner
Four Circles In a Square by Janice MacNamara Freeman @pindropquilts
(original finished quilt; 57" x 57")
Second Place Winner
Jester's Journal by Madison Makers (Louise Collins, Lynette Fehir, Lara Huntsman, Judy Losier, Ruth Lui, Mical Pearlman, May Powell, Peter Reeve- Newson and Jane Rajantie and Catherine Watts)
(original quilt top; 39" x 46")
Thank You to Our Prize Sponsors
We'd like to send a huge thank you to our prize sponsors for this event including JN Harper's, a Canadian textile distributor, and PreQuilt, a locally-owned quilt design software business.
The 1st place winner of the challenge was awarded:
- An ‘Iconic’ fat quarter bundle by Libs Elliot including , 'Glaze II' Charm Pack and Design Roll
- A PreQuilt Annual Subscription (read more on this below)
- The quilt will hang at the Fabric Spark booth at Quilt Canada in Toronto, June 19-21, 2025.
- Publication in Fabric Spark's newsletter and socials.
The 2nd and 3rd place winners also received fabric prizes.
*A note about PreQuilt
PreQuilt is an online software application for designing, visualizing, and making quilts. Some of
the benefits of subscribing to PreQuilt are:
- Design and visualize your quilt ideas quickly and dynamically
- Save your quilts and digital coloring page mockups
- Calculate fabric needed to make your quilt idea
- Use printed fabric swatches in your quilt idea or mockups
- Use the randomization features to play with a quilt idea
Thank You for Participating
It has been our absolute pleasure to host this event for all you, and to have played some role in your creative journey this year.
A Photo Gallery of Fabric Spark Challenge Quilts
Below you will find projects made by our staff as well as those submitted to the challenge by our greater Fabric Spark community. Enjoy!
"Embracing Imperfection Since 2014" by Daryl Aitken, Chief Imperfectionist (original finished quilted banner using the Skinny Alphabet pattern by Happy Sew Lucky)
(above) "Berry Parfait" by Annie, Sales Associate (Based on a quilt pattern "Berry Parfait" by Thimbles and Needles; finished quilt)
(above) "Jan's Star" by Jan, Sales Associate (original finished quilt)
(above) "Jelly Bean Row" by Jane, Workshop Coordinator (Based on the quilt pattern "Jelly Bean Row" by Penny Spool Quilts; finished quilt)
(above) "Four Corners" by Laura, Payroll Administrator (original finished quilt)
(above) "Take Flight" by Nix, Sales Associate (original finished quilt)
A Photo Gallery of All Our Quilt Submissions
Linoleum by Barb Ferris (original finished quilt; 46.5" x 53.25")
(above) Life Is Good by Berene Campbell (@happysewlucky); original finished quilt; 24" x 30"
(above) The Parrot and The Orange by Carol Ashton (original finished quilt; 17" x 21.5")
(above) Spark by Carol Ashton (original finished quilt; 26.5" x 48.5")
(above) Sequence by Diana Revett-Fox (original finished quilt; 21.5" x 17")
(above) Variation on Around the World by Helen Lambert-Davis (original finished quilt; 39" x 39")
(above) This Way and That by Ilana Kotin (original finished quilt top; 28" x 35")
(above) Five Stars by Isabella Garrigan (Finished quilt based on Stellar Zebra Pattern by Sandy Saengsuk; 64" x 64")
(above) Sunshine & Serendipity by Janet Patterson (original finished quilt; 40" x 40")
(above) Ain't No Rest for the Winged by Jill S. (Finished quilt of "Dragon Dreams" Pattern by Astrid Bordush; 37" x 45")
(above) Thistlebloom by Jitka Clement (two sides of an original finished quilt; 47.5" x 53.5")
(above) Lemon Squeezy by Julia Scott (original adaptation of "The Big EZ" pattern by Vicki Bellino; 60" x 60")
(above) New Life by Lauri B. (original finished quilt; 49" x 49")
(above) Sprinkle by Lenore Ison (original finished quilt inspired by Confetti by Maria Shell; 50" x 66")
(above) Inspired by Kimono by Lucy Garvin (original quilt top; 48" x 56")
(above) Come Fly a Kite by Melissa Creighton (Finished quilt based on Kite Block Mini Pattern by Flying Parrot Quilts; 21" x 21")
(above) This Ain't No Disco by Melissa Creighton (Finished quilt of Roof Lines Pattern by Flying Parrot Quilts; 37" x 45")
(above) YWG by Nupur Deonarine (original finished quilt)
(above) Early Birds of Spring by Susan Emanuel (original quilt top; 37" x 37")
(above) Partial Bloom by Terry-Ann Wright (Quilt top based on "Knitted Blooms" pattern by Lo & Behold Stitchery; 19.5" x 19.5")
(above) Dotty Stars by Valerie Prideaux (original finished quilt; 37" x 37")
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