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14.1 – The First One – Challenge 1 of Project QUILTING season 14

January 1, 2023 by persimondreams 21 Comments

Welcome to Season 14 of Project QUILTING! I know you’re all equal parts excited and overwhelmed right now – with the holiday season and all the love and stress it brings coming to a close, and now the dawn of a new year. Whew.
I’m Trish Frankland (aka QuiltChicken) and I’m your PQ challenge mistress. While this is Kim’s blog and Project Quilting is 100% her brainchild, she loves to be surprised each week along with everyone else – so I create the challenge themes and only send them off to her at the last minute. Please remember: it’s always supposed to be fun.
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 Blue Bar Quilt. 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 (Post coming soon – I’m just finalizing some of the prizes)!  Inspiration, quilting, fun AND Prizes!?  Can it get much better?
I know this first challenge snuck up on a lot of us, right here on the FIRST day of the new year … but let’s make the most of it, and soldier on. Each challenge week, I’ll step in here and give you some guidelines. Sometimes the rule will require you to do something; sometimes you have to NOT do something.

PQ14.1 The First One

Let’s revel in the “firstness” of January 1 for this week’s challenge theme and look at the number one.
  • Number one could be the winner. The “first” to reach a summit or achieve a position.
  • But sometimes one is the loneliest number; a single with no one around.
  • And sometimes it’s just math. In any event, let’s carry the one this week!
I’m dying to see where you go with this ONE. Revisit your first quilt block? A portrait of your one-and-only? Or an achievement that made you feel like the winner?

RULE ONE: Your project this week must somehow use the theme of “one.”

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 1, 2023, and posted by noon Central Time January 8, 2023.
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.

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 8th 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 11am on Sunday, January 8th you may email a picture and description to {projectquilting@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 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 #pqSeason14 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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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  1. Des Fossen says

    January 1, 2023 at 3:15 pm

    So think my mind is not quite working in the new year… so each challenge is to be a finished project but does not have to be a quilt? And on this clue you have to use “one”. Does it have to have a number 1 as the one?

    Reply
    • persimondreams says

      January 2, 2023 at 2:39 pm

      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.

      Interpret the number one as you see fit … Trish gave some examples in the post on how that could be done.
      Number 1 does not have to be the one. In review:

      Number one could be the winner.
      The “first” to reach a summit or achieve a position.
      But sometimes one is the loneliest number; a single with no one around.
      And sometimes it’s just math.
      Revisit your first quilt block?
      A portrait of your one-and-only?
      Or an achievement that made you feel like the winner?

      Reply
  2. Susan Ward says

    January 2, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    What does it mean by a stand alone does that mean a place mat a mug rug or can it be a quilt block that will lead to others in the challenge sue

    Reply
    • persimondreams says

      January 2, 2023 at 2:40 pm

      A lone quilt block that will lead to others in the challenge would not qualify. It has to be FINISHED is the key.

      Reply
  3. Karen says

    January 3, 2023 at 9:17 pm

    I am a first timer to this challenge and looking forward to taking part.

    Reply
  4. Catie says

    January 5, 2023 at 10:34 am

    Here’s my entry for the Project Quilting challenge

    Reply
  5. Carol Andrews says

    January 6, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Thank you Kim and Trish. This is the best way to start the year!

    Reply
  6. The Joyful Quilter says

    January 8, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    SEW many wonderful entries!! Congrats to Kim and Trish on a brilliant start to Season 14!!!

    Reply
  7. Nanci McAtee says

    January 8, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    When are the winners posted?

    Reply
    • persimondreams says

      January 11, 2023 at 5:02 pm

      working on that now! Keep an eye on the blog.

      Reply
  8. Patti says

    January 9, 2023 at 6:26 am

    Is week two out? I’m new and am not sure when the next prompt comes. I had fun last week with this.

    Reply
    • persimondreams says

      January 11, 2023 at 5:02 pm

      Hi Patti! The next challenge will go up on January 15th. We post a challenge, you have a week, and then you get a week break before the next one 😉 Just in case you need to do some laundry or dishes 😉

      Reply

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