$100,000 Quilting Challenge

You could be the next quilting superstar!

Reality Publishing, LLC. is bringing the excitement of reality TV to the quilting and publishing worlds, and you're invited to be a part of it! The $100,000 Quilting Challenge, a brand new quarterly magazine, converts the suspense, competition, and elimination rounds from reality television shows into magazine format.

If you have a show-quality quilt less than two years old that measures a minimum of 40" x 40", get ready to enter the $100,000 Quilting Challenge. The contest is divided into ten quilting categories, with winners in every category. Each issue of the magazine will be based on an ongoing and progressive quilt competition, with prizes to be awarded each quarter based on the decisions of NQA-certified judges. At the end of the year, the judges and you—the voting public—will determine an overall winner who will receive the $100,000 prize.

Categories:

Appliqué: A technique for attaching pieces (appliqués) of fabric onto a background fabric. Appliqués may be stitched to the background by hand using a blind stitch; by machine, using a satin stitch, blind hemstitch, or other decorative stitch; or ironed on with fusible web. Appliqué may be combined with pieced blocks.

Crazy Patch: A design of asymmetrical pieces of fabric sewn together in random order producing abstract arrangements. The seams, and sometimes patches, are embellished with embroidery stitches.

Hand Quilting: The top is machine or hand pieced but the sandwich is only hand quilted.

Innovative Pieced: Innovative pieced quilts offer a twist on traditional and classic blocks or play with angles. Techniques can include curves, landscapes, off-kilter versions of traditional blocks, three dimensional piecing, and tessellations. Traditional design elements may be incorporated, but only in an innovative manner that reflects original creativity by the artist.

Machine Quilting: The top is machine or hand pieced but only machine quilting is used to finish the quilt.

Mixed Technique: Two or more dominant techniques including but not limited to appliqué, piecing, embroidery, dyeing, embellishment, painting, machine quilting, and hand quilting.

Paper Piecing: The quilt top must be assembled using foundation paper piecing patterns to create shapes, blocks, and designs.

Pictorial: The quilt is a representation of a person, place, or thing.

Thread Embellishment: The quilt pattern is augmented by moderate to heavy stitching, embroidery, and thread art.

Traditional Piecing: The predominant technique is piecing using traditional block patterns.


Important Dates

March 28, 2006
Look for the first judged issue (full of winning quilts!) of the $100,000 Quilting Challenge in a store near you.

April 7, 2006
Deadline for photos of quilts to be juried into the third round of competition.

June 6, 2006
Look for the second issue (full of winning quilts!) of the $100,000 Quilting Challenge in a store near you.

June 16, 2006
Deadline for photos of quilts to be juried into the fourth round of competition.

August 15, 2006
Look for the third issue (full of winning quilts!) of the $100,000 Quilting Challenge in a store near you.

October 31, 2006
Look for the fourth issue (full of winning quilts!) of the $100,000 Quilting Challenge in a store near you.

October 31-December 11, 2006
Vote for the grand-prize winning quilt!

Visit the website for entry forms and complete details.