Are you ready for the second Project QUILTING Challenge!? I know I am!!!
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 Hancock’s of Paducah. 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?
Many of you know I’m a geek about color. I have loved Pantone ink swatch books (#ad) since I was a child, and you can draw a direct line from there to my adult quilting obsession.
And I know several of you were just itching to see what my color-inspired challenge would look like this year. So here we are! Let’s talk about COLOR.
Apparently, people in the know think it’s going to be a rosy 2023, because most color forecasters have gone in that direction for their “color of the year” announcements.
Pantone named Viva Magenta as their color for 2023. With a sweep of alliteration after my own heart, they declared it a color that “vibrates with vim and vigor.” It’s on the red side of pink, and BRIGHT, bright, bright!
Robert Kaufman named its Kona Cotton Color of the Year for 2023, and they selected Crush, a vibrant salmon that reminds me of juicy ruby red grapefruit.
Sherwin-Williams paint company went more neutral with their choice – but while Redend Point is taupe, it carries notable pink undertones.
So this week, what I want to know is: what shade of pink do you choose for YOUR color? You don’t have to choose one of those previously listed colors, but you must use some rosy-hued inspiration.
RULE ONE: some shade of pink must dominate this week’s project.
Some additional places to seek color inspiration:
- Palettes of four colors each with fun ways to sort and browse: Color Hunt
- The famous archive of Design Seeds.
- Combining science, history and art, this book is great either as a deep-dive read or to just dip in and out of on a whim: Secret Lives of Color.
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 15, 2023, and posted by noon Central Time January 22, 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 POST by Sunday, January 22nd 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 11:30 am on Sunday, January 22nd you may email a picture and description to {projectquilting@gmail.com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line. Yes – that deadline is 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, @QuiltChicken and @GoGoKim 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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Woo hoo! Pink is my all time favorite color!
While I am not fond of pink, this will be a good challenge to think outside my own colorbox. Hmmm. Where to start? Auditioning fabrics! Maybe one will shout at me!
Pink is my favourite colour even though I am a “big girl”.
Pink seems to be overflowing right now in my stash cupboard and scrap bins! Thanks for a perfect project to use up some bits and pieces! 😉
Such a great challenge and so many awesome projects and inspirations. I miss the days when we could see the process and know the size and such. So many of the projects won’t even let us see the post. Private I guess???
I don’t mean to be a negative Nelly though, I love Project Quilting!
Such a great season so far. Thank you for all you do!
Thanks for the heads up! We’ll put out a friendly request for folks to make sure they put the places they’re linking too as “public”.
oh dear, I didn’t change my title to be Not Afraid of Color! Can’t change it now can I? I’m the big pink flower at the bottom…. and I’m LeeAnna at lapaylor at gmail dot com
Love seeing so many creative projects. It really is inspiring!