The Washita County OSU Extension is sponsoring a Pizza Box Quilt Swap Challenge. A Pizza Box Quilt is a round robin of 12 to 13 different people passing around boxes with quilt fabric for each person to make a monthly block for a lap quilt. At the end of 12 months, we will have a pizza party to reveal who supplied which material and to finish the quilts. Participants will piece together the quilt that is made from your material (which has been in its own pizza box). Then, each person can decide if they want to keep the lap quilt or donate the quilt to the nursing home, veterans center or a child in need.
How does it work?
1. In October, reg ister by calling the Washita County OSU Extension Office at 580-832-3356
2. To participate, each person will provide the following material for one box which will make one lap quilt: (These are minimum requirements. If you provide more, the excess will be used to border the quilt if you want to make bigger.) The lap quilt will be 36”x48” unless you decide to make yours bigger with borders.
2 yards of background fabric (minimum)
2 yards of main or focus fabric (minimum)
3 yards of different coordinating materials. (4-8 different coordinating fabrics, more is always better)
Material to back the quilt and batting (you keep until end of year)
3. By December 1st, each person will bring their fabric to the Washita County’s OSU Extension Office.
Do not tell anyone which material you supplied for a pizza box. This will be a secret until the end of the year when we have a “Reveal Pizza Party”!
4. The first part of January 2021, pick up a box at the Washita Co. OSU Extension Office, 125 W Main, Cordell.
Make one 12 1/2” block out of the material in the box. Do not duplicate another pattern in the box. At the end, each box should include12 different patterns.
You can NOT add any other material that is not in the box to your block. And, all scraps go into a zip-lock bag in the box. When you are finished, bring the box back to the Extension Office and check out a different box for February. Repeat the procedure for each month throughout 2021.
At the end of 12 months (January 2022), we will have a Pizza Party Box Reveal to tell who supplied which material and finish sewing the quilts together. You can decide if you want to keep your quilt or donate it.
The Pizza Box Quilt is a great way to utilize Washita County OSU Extension’s new Accuquilt Machine that was purchased with an OSU Ambassador’s Grant. When you come to pick up your different pizza quilt box each month, you could pick out a new pattern to make and have it cut out before you leave. The new Accuquilt Machine has endless numbers of patterns and it is very quick and easy to use.
For additional information, contact Kristy Spalding, Beckham and Washita Counties’ FCS Extension Educator, at the Washita Co. Office at 580-832-3356 or email Kristy at kristy.spalding@okstate.edu.