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For a third year, Tricia Hopkins is challenging members to help raise money for the Kate Hillhouse Scholarship Fund by creating a quilt to be auctioned off.
and raffled in 2011.
Tricia is asking members to make quilt blocks out of fabric which has been sewn or stitched together. She will collect the blocks and make them into a quilt which will be raffled or auctioned during the Texas Native Plants Symposium in Corpus Christi. The funds raised will be used to create an undergraduate scholarship for native plant education. Her previous quilts helped raise unprecedented amounts for the scholarship fund.
Tricia is a member of the Cross Timbers Chapter, which meets in Weatherford, and has been making quilts as a hobby for over ten years. She has been donating quilts for the Silent Auction at the Symposium for several years before getting the idea to make a collaborative quilt.
- The block should interpret the theme of our purpose and goals.
- Size of the block must be 12.5 inches square (i.e., this is 12”sq w/seam allowance added).
- Traditional or original patterns may be used (pieced or appliqued or a combination).
- Blocks may include surface embellishment techniques (e.g., dying, trapunto, stenciling, embroidery, beading, painting).
- Each block must be washable.
- Please use natural fiber as background, remembering this will be quilted.
- An identification label must be securely attached to the block with the name, address, telephone number and chapter of the maker.
- The challenge is open to everyone.The designer need not be planning to attend board meetings or the symposium in order to participate.
- All blocks should be received by the July State Board meeting, where they will be judged and a prize presented to the favorite.
- All block entries will be used in the quilt.
For questions contact Tricia Hopkins.
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