CQ Challenges

Anne Tuck Award Winner
Congratulations to Kay Leech whose quilt Torn by Time was entered into
the 2020 Fragmentation Challenge and selected as a worthy winner.

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Contemporary Quilt Challenges are for members only. The Challenges are issued every 2 years. They are juried and exhibited in touring exhibitions to venues around the country.
This year we have 'An invitation to exhibit', more details can be found here
To see work entered in all our challenges click on the links below in Past Challenge Themes

Challenges on tour

Past Challenge themes

After months of uncertainty, due to COVID, we are delighted to announce that the following exhibitions are now expected. These feature two CQ Challenge exhibitions for which plans have been in abeyance for months.

Assuming that plans for easing of restrictions progress as announced and expected, Fragmentation will be exhibited as follows:

Fragmentation
At last we have a live exhibition again!

The first exhibition of the 51 quilts submitted to the FRAGMENTATION Challenge in 2020 will be open at 
The Auld Kirk, KIRKINTILLOCH, Glasgow, G66 1HN
from Tuesday 8th June 2021 until Thursday 15 July 2021
The exhibition will be open Tuesday - Friday inclusive, 
from 10am - 1pm and 2pm -5pm
It will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
There is disabled access.
As you may have seen from the gallery on the website, this is a fascinatingly diverse set of quilts presenting very interesting interpretations of the theme. 
I'd fully recommend a trip to Kirkintilloch to view them.
Many thanks to the East Dunbartonshire Museum and Galleries Service for hosting this exhibition for us.

After Scotland, the Fragmentation exhibition is planned to go to four ICHF Shows, starting in September 2021 and finishing in April 2022. The dates and venues are as follows:

· The Creative Craft Show, Westpoint Centre Exeter: 23-26 September 2021

· The Scottish Quilting Show, SEC Glasgow:
3-6 March 2022

· Sewing for Pleasure and Fashion & Embroidery, NEC Birmingham:
17-20 March 2022

· The Creative Craft Show, ExCeL London:
1-2 April 2022

updated May 2021
Maggie Pearson
Exhibitions Organiser Contemporary Quilt

Primary colours

• Fissures 2006
• Breakthrough 2008
• Thin Blue Line 2008
• Pictorial Consequences 2011
• CQ@10 (our 10th birthday challenge based on an image of a Cornish tin mine) 2012
• Horizons 2013
• Dislocation 2014
• ​Elements 2015
• On the Edge 2016
• 'in print' 2018
• Re-Vision 2019
• Fragmentation 2020

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• CQ@10 (which also includes the history of the group and images from all the past collections and years of Journal Quilts) 
• Elements
• On the Edge
• "in print"