Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabric 8-Step Half-Yard Bundle - Poppy Challenge 2024

Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabric 8-Step Half-Yard Bundle - Poppy Challenge 2024
Item #: CFPOFQB8

Welcome to our world of color with the look of suede!

Cherrywood Fabrics have been hand-dyeing fabric for over 35 years, and have perfected the rich, suede look of this gorgeous fabric.

Cherrywood fabric can be used in quilts, garments, home decorating, and anywhere else you want a solid color that doesn't just lay flat.

This fabric has been washed twice/preshrunk and rinsed twice in hot water with Synthrapol Detergent — a concentrated detergent that removes excess
dye.

Each 8-Step Half-Yard Bundle includes eight half yard cuts, each measuring approximately 18" x 44", in a curated color "family".

100% cotton that is dyed to look like suede.

Care: Cherrywood Fabrics recommends pre-washing Cherrywood Fabric at home with Synthrapol Detergent in warm or cold water.


NINTH ANNUAL CHERRYWOOD HANDYDED FABRICS ART QUILT CONTEST

The Poppy Challenge Is Now Closed. FINALISTS will be announced Mid-June.

The wildly popular Cherrywood Challenge is back for its 9th year! The striking exhibit creates a cohesive visual impact with artwork using the same theme, same size, same fabric and same colors.

Poppy Challenge 2024 Fat Quarter Bundle includes:
• Eight FAT QUARTERS of hand-dyed cotton
• Sample of Mistyfuse fusible "Zips"
• One spool of Black Aurifil 40 wt thread
• Collectible Challenge sticker

THE CHALLENGE
What can you create with just eight colors?

THEME
Use your insight and personal style to design the quilt. We will select quilts based on originality, creativity, design, impact, workmanship and overall variety of the exhibit.

SIZE
Finished measurements must be 20 inches square. The name of the game for this challenge is continuity, so we need this exact size.

COLOR
The challenge is to use a limited color palette. Your entry must use ONLY the eight colors of fabric in the official Challenge Bundle. Thread color, ink/paint color and colors of embellishments are not limited in their color.

Official Challenge Bundle includes the following hand dyed fabric colors:
• 0220 Poppy
• 0215 Red-Orange
• 0130 Red
• 0120 Salsa
• 1315 Gunmetal
• CHP01 Poppyseed *NEW*
• 0780 Sage
• 0775 Terragon


Notes from Cherrywood regarding the Cherrywood Challenge

FABRIC
The entire quilt top and binding must be made out of the Cherrywood Challenge Bundle. No other brand of fabric may be added (with the exception of backing). This challenge is about using your talents to show off the suede texture and color of Cherrywood.

TECHNIQUE & EMBELLISHMENTS
ADD COLOR WITH EMBELLISHING TECHNIQUES: quilting, thread painting, embroidery, couching, beading, fabric painting, drawing, etc! Any technique or fabric manipulation is acceptable as long as it maintains the official challenge colors and character of a textile quilt. 

SPONSORS: Aurifil Thread and Mistyfuse super fine fusible web.

The symbol of the poppy was first associated with the First World War. This bright red flower became a common sight to see on the battlefields of northern France in 1915. Soldiers on the Western Front would even send pressed poppies in letters to their loved ones. 1915 saw fierce fighting at places like Loos and Ypres in France and Belgium. Poppies grew well in the churned-up soil of the battlefield shell craters. The constant bombardment not only churned up the soil, and brought seeds to the surface but the nitrogen of the explosives helped to fertilize the earth and give the poppies enough nutrients to grow and bloom.

In 1915, after losing a friend during the Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote a poem, titled In Flanders' Fields, inspired by the colorful display of poppies that had sprung up on the battlefields. 

In Flanders' Fields

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.