August 17th,, 2008

The judging is complete! Photos of the new winners can be seen by clicking on the link to the right, and to see the names, click here for the pdf list. It was another tough year, as we received 579 incredible entries. We're juggling many large tasks, including preparing the traveling collections. This year, there will be around 360 traveling items in 12 trunks, including a new trunk of around 45 items that will spend the full year in Canada visiting many shops and shows. This will be an assorted trunk with items from all categories.

Kelly is sorting the traveling items into collections. At this point, the quilts are sorted. To see if your quilt is traveling, click here for a pdf list. We will be adding the other categories as soon as they are done.

Non traveling entries and acceptance letters will be sent to entrants by the end of August. Please understand we are working as hard and as fast as possible and can not get them out any sooner due to the huge show the weekend of the 23rd-24th. If you sent in an entry, we are grateful, and have enjoyed every single one!

Traveling items from the 2007 Spring Collection will begin returning home in Sept., depending on the last exhibit date. Some don't return until Oct.

The trunks for the Spring Collection are currently being displayed across the US. To see the schedules click here. For the lists of entries in each trunk, click here. For the winners, click here.

There will be a quilt show in No. CO August 23th and 24th featuring the entire traveling collection. This is the first time all award winners and every traveler have ever been seen in one location! Please consider coming! You can find more infomation at www.rockymountainquiltfestival.com.

The 2009 fabrics will be announced in late August. We'll post images of it as soon as the fabrics are announced.

Questions or comments? Please don’t hesitate to contact Kelly@hoffmanchallenge.com.

Welcome to the Hoffman Challenge website. Every year, a team from Hoffman Fabrics chooses an upcoming fabric design, and then issues a challenge to quilt, clothing, accessory, and doll makers to create original items using the fabric. The challenge curator and a group of assistants jury the entries, and then a team of judges selects the award winners.

The juried collections then travel to be exhibited by quilt and other fiber guilds, shops, museums, and textile shows. The exhibitions are displayed and enjoyed in several hundred locations across the US and Canada. We welcome you to enter the challenge, or to request to be on the calendar for the traveling exhibitions.

Many talented fiber artists have taken part in the Hoffman Challenge. Click on one of the fabrics below to see more about that year’s challenge, or click on Past Challenges to see all of the fabrics selected in our 20 years of presenting these collections.

2007 D610 #145 Spring

2006 C516 #97 Raspberry

2005 B720 #130 Multi

2004 B720 #130 Multi Gold

2003 4381 #196 Black Cherry