Quinobequin Quilters 2009 Summer Challenge

Each year the membership is presented with a challenge to create a quilt within certain guidelines.  Recently, these challenges have been a summer assignment, due at the September meeting. Those in attendance vote for their favorite, and modest prizes are awarded to the top three.

QQ challenge photo galleries:     2004     2005     2006     2007     2008

Honoring the Haiku The haiku is a poem that uses compact language to paint a vivid mental image, usually describing everyday subjects such as nature, feelings, or experiences.  Important in Japanese culture, a haiku usually has three short, non-rhyming lines: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. The 2009 challenge had us find or write a haiku and transform it into a quilt using any method of construction.  The quilt could be any shape, but no smaller than 12" and no larger than 36" on a side.

Here are our quilts each with the haiku it honors:

Cathy Harless

Danette Ryan-Howard

1st Place Kathy Whelan

3rd Place Marlene Thurston

Maureen Davidson

2nd Place Nancy Weinreich

Maxine Rosenberg