14.5 – Sew Not a Square – Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING Season 14

Hi all! This is Trish – back again with another exciting challenge for your PQ pleasure!

Thanks to all of you who had so much fun with my book-inspired challenge last time. It’s fun to learn about other people’s book love, and if you haven’t checked out the list of titles Kim and I pulled together, you may be inspired there, too.

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 Therm O Web (#ad). 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?

We also have support sponsors that I’d like to take a moment to give a quick shout out to! They have made monetary donations which helps me with the shipping of the prizes and keeping this website up and running. Thank you to Patchwork Posse and Oliso for the support. Now on to this week’s fun.

Challenge 14.5 – Sew Not a Square

Every once in a while I like to make a challenge about exclusion. Remove one thing from the equation, and see what happens. That’s this week’s challenge: do anything in the whole wide world you can imagine – but use no square shapes in doing it, and don’t end up with a square. I already know you’re going to make me get all pedantic with this, so here it is:

square – (noun) /skwer/ a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

So this means you can work with rectangles, rows, hexagons, diamonds, equilateral triangles, circles, braids, and a universe full of irregular shapes. You could even make a landscape. But whatever you do, don’t make your project square. And don’t sew a square!

Rule One: you may use no square shapes in your project. 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 26, 2023, and posted by noon Central Time March 4, 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, March 4th 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, March 4th you may email a picture and description to {projectquilting@gmail.com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line.

Good luck, and remember to HAVE FUN! Don’t forget to post progress pictures because that’s part of the fun.

SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING

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!
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!
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!

PS.

I thought this challenge was so cool I designed a companion t-shirt to go with it!