2025 Celebrating Women Challenge Entries

Celebrating Women Challenge - 2025

A Special Exhibition Challenge Sponsored by Mancuso Show Management

Whether it’s dynamic heroines in history, inspiring quilters and mentors, or closer to home in your family tree, this challenge asked its entrants to create a quilt that honors the woman or women who have made a great impact on their life. 

Her Last Quilt by Heather Horton

Eleanor Roosevelt Wore Many Hats by Darlene Huey

 

Goddesses: Dignity, Elegance, Intelligence by Jannie Jones

For Ruth by Cathleen Kilpatrick

Fearless II: A Tribute to Grandmother Acuff by Janet Acuff Marney

Everyone Loves Nancy Drew by Ellen Matter

We Bring Forth Life by Vanessa McDonald-Hobbs

Honoring World War II Code Breaking Women by Debi J Paisie

Sisters by Holly D Panzers

She Who Inspires by Valerie Pollard

Full Circle by Mary J Puckett

Beatrix Potter by Sheila H Riess

Life is Good by Emma Allen

Hope in the Darkness by Mary Allen

Maternal Origin of Me. MOM by Rosell Bede Crockett

A Mother’s Promise by Phyllis Cullen

Celebrating Clay Women by Judy Denherder Loving

Doris by Mel Dugosh

A Woman’s Place by Joanna Ellis

Gabriele’s Quiet Strength by Beatriz Englert

Elinor by Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry

Celebrating Women Nurses by Diane Marie Foos

Suffragette Banner by Priscilla B Godfrey

Quilters Together With Love by Lynne S Hartman

 

Half of the Challenge's entry fees were donated to A Women's Place that is based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1976, A Woman’s Place (AWP) is the only domestic violence community benefit organization in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. AWP provides a full range of programs and services to individuals experiencing domestic violence, their children, and the community. Domestic Violence | Bucks County | Pennsylvania | A Woman's Place