Woo! Are you ready for another Project QUILTING challenge?
This is Trish (aka QuiltChicken) with the info on this week’s PQ13.2 challenge.
But first, let me just say how proud I am of you all with last week’s colorful, fun projects. You sprung from the starting gates strong in a rainbow of inspiration, and it was a joy and delight to see.
Honestly, my favorite part of this all is seeing more than 200 different interpretations of the same spark.
Side Note about Prizes! Every week that you enter a piece for the challenge you are entered into a random drawing to win one of the amazing prizes from our sponsors! Be sure to check out THIS post for all the prizes up for grabs this weeks and to thank our awesome sponsors! Our Ultimate Weekly Sponsor this week is the Mashe Modern Fabric & Quilting. AND, if you finish the challenge in the time allotted your name will also be added into the final drawing at the completion of the season for an opportunity to win the GRAND PRIZE! Inspiration, quilting, fun AND Prizes!? Can it get much better?
PQ13.2 – In Silhouette
Instead of color, this week’s challenge focuses on contrast and design.
The word silhouette defines an outline of something: perhaps the shape of a landmark backlit against a dawning sky, or the traced outline of a child’s profile projected on the wall behind.
But it doesn’t have to be all shadow and darkness. Remember grandmother’s cameo brooch? I think that’s an interesting way to approach the silhouette without it being a dark form.
I’ll also recommend inspiration from multi-cultural papercrafting – look to Germanic scherenschnitte (#ad) and Mexican papel picado (#ad) for some ideas and techniques you could adapt. Kim and I also once took a class doing papercuts learning Japanese notan (#ad) – an artistic approach to balancing dark and light that has great application here.
You can interpret this challenge in many ways, but I’d like to see you explore the idea of a simple, contrasting image in your work.
Rule 1 – Your project must somehow incorporate a silhouette – the outline of an image.
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 January 16th, 2022, and posted by noon Central Time January 23rd, 2022.
Each piece must stand alone as DONE to count toward prizes.
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.
If you finish more than one project that is amazing but please just link up to a single completed project.
Incomplete or unfinished does not qualify. Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline.
Link up at the bottom of THIS PAGE by Sunday, January 23rd 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, public instagram picture, or public facebook posting. This post – How to Link Up a Link Up may help you. At this time, if you choose to link up to an instagram or facebook url you will have to manually upload the picture to go with it – look at the section “upload a link” on THIS POST to see how to do this.
- Alternately, by 11:50am on Sunday, January 9th you may email a picture and description to {projectquilting@gmail.com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line. Yes – that deadline is a little earlier because it requires more work for Kim.
Good luck, and remember to HAVE FUN! Don’t forget to post progress pictures because that’s part of the fun.
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKING
- Please use the hashtags #pqSeason13 and/or #projectquilting when posting on social networking sites to help spread the word.
If you’d like to tag @PerisimonDreams and @QuiltChicken on instagram then we’ll for sure 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.
Link Up
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! If you are having trouble linking up email me – projectquilting@gmail.com the picture, story behind your quilt, and where you are from and I will do the rest for you.
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Is there a Rule 2?
nope – just Rule 1
One rule to rule them all…
loved this challenge… mine is disco poodle, LeeAnna at leeannaquilts at gmail dot com