Hello PQers! This is Trish and believe it or not, it’s already time once again for our bi-weekly heart-to-heart check-in.
Team Colors was so much fun last time; I adored reading about the groups with which you associate and the passions in your life. And this week we’re going to continue in that same VEIN.
The perpetual friendly reminder: please read the rules and make sure you understand them. Note that photography of your finished project must be linked at the bottom of this post in order to be eligible for prizes. Ask questions if you don’t understand something – and remember just about everything about Project QUILTING and how it began can be found on THIS page. These challenges are meant to be inspirational and FUN.
For every challenge completed, we put the maker’s name in as a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors. Be sure to check out THIS post for all the weekly prizes and to thank our awesome sponsors! The Ultimate Weekly Sponsor this week is Maywood Studio!
AND, all those name slips also get added for the final GRAND PRIZE drawing (after challenge six)!
~Grand Prize Package 1 ~ Grand Prize Package 2 ~
Now, are you ready to show some HEART?
CHALLENGE 11.3
Put A Heart On It
It’s the last challenge before Valentine’s Day. And whether you celebrate that or not, love is all around. Actually, when you start looking for hearts you find them everywhere – in the shape of a leaf, a rock, cracks in the sidewalk, on a puppy’s spots, an arrangement of constellations, even a blob of gum on your shoe.
This week the challenge is very, very tiny and also HUGE. Just one tiny little rule: your finished piece must have a heart somewhere on the front. It can be in the print of a fabric, in a block’s piecing, a theme you use or just something you tack on at the end. And that makes for a huge challenge – because you can do almost anything (that can be very scary!).
Your project does not need to be a traditional quilt but must meet at least one of these requirements: include patchwork, include appliqué, have 3 layers stitched together by hand or machine.
There is no size limit – make it as big or little as you want.
Each piece must stand alone as DONE to count toward prizes. Incomplete or unfinished does not qualify.
You have one week to meet the challenge. Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline – that is, started on or after February 2, 2020, and posted by noon Central February 9, 2020.
LINK UP!
Link up at the bottom of THIS PAGE by Sunday, February 9 at noon CST (here’s a link to time zone converter to calculate for Central Standard Time: www.thetimezoneconverter.com)
- Add to the linky the URL of your project’s blog post, instagram picture, or public facebook post. This post – How to Link Up a Link Up may help you.
- Alternately, by 11am on Sunday, February 9 you may email a picture and description to {lapaceksorchard@gmail.com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line. Yes – that deadline is one hour earlier because it requires more work for Kim.
Good luck and HAVE FUN!
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKING:
- Please use the hashtags #pqSeason11 and/or #projectquilting when posting on social networking sites to spread the word.
If you tag @PerisimonDreams and @QuiltChicken on instagram it helps ensure we see your posts! - Share progress pictures on Facebook, Instagram, and your blog – seeing your process and how you get to the final project is part of the fun!
- Make sure you like Project QUILTING on Facebook.
- We have created a ‘Challenge Quilts’ Facebook Group for you to share your thoughts, questions, and friendship on PQ and other quilting challenges. Just ask to join.
Please be sure to link up your FINAL project just below HERE. VERY IMPORTANT! If you do not link up you cannot win a prize!
Sara Pafford says
I just can’t believe there is a girl in this world with freckles in the shape of a heart! I’m so happy you were able to highlight this love! That’s one lucky girl to be pictured on your blog!
Susan the Farm Quilter says
Well, Sara, I have a heart-shaped birth mark on the inside of my knee…the only “freckle” that faded with age!!! Thank you, Kim for a fun project!! Really pushed me out of my comfort zone with what I made, but I had a blast and have a cute new bag!!
Jocelyn Thurston says
What an absolutely fabulous array of heart projects. So much inspiration here! Thank you for hosting.