2025 Mancuso Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza
Theme: Fences
Visible and functional or internal and metaphorical? Decorative or plain, made of wood, iron, or wire, the ranchers and homesteaders of the west valued a strong fence.. However, a blizzard, flood, or drifting sand blur the function of boundaries or the efficacy of keeping critters in or out. Fences delineate political and social jurisdictions. As a noun, a fence can be an obstacle in an equestrian event, or as a verb, to fence. Fences may support a flower box, have blooms poking thru, or be the star in the idyllic picket fence home. Perhaps it becomes a key lyric for a song, “Don’t Fence Me In” or a metaphor as in “sitting on the fence” or “side of the fence.” Members of The Art Quilt Association explore their connection to Fences.
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza (Oaks Pennsylvania)
- Show dates are September 11-14, 2025
- Turn-in: May 15, 2025 meeting. No exceptions.
The entry form Fences_CFE_form MUST be completed in its entirety to make a submission.
Lisa Flowers Ross is slated to be our juror and will do so IN PERSON in Grand Junction while here for a May workshop. Quilts will be judged, photographed, and then returned to the makers to be returned tentatively at the August 21 meeting to be shipped to PA for the September show.
DESIGN RULES:
- All pieces must be the ORIGINAL work of AQuA members. No quilt may be constructed using a commercial pattern. No commercial machine quilting patterns may be used.
- If the quilt was begun in a workshop, the workshop teacher’s name and technique must be credited on the back. A workshop teacher’s pattern is not acceptable, only the technique.
- No more than two (2) AQuA members may collaborate on the construction of a quilt, and both members must be listed on the entry form.
- Entries cannot be smaller than 96 inches minimum perimeter or larger than 252 inches maximum perimeter. Entries cannot exceed a maximum length of 72 inches. Entries cannot exceed a depth of 5” for shipping purpose.
- Diptychs and triptychs are acceptable providing their size, including space between the pieces, remains within the size restrictions.
- The sleeve requirements are at the top of the list under Member Info: Lots of How To Instructions: How to Construct a Quilt Sleeve
