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14.6 – Conquer a Fear – Challenge 6 of Project QUILTING Season 14

March 12, 2023 by persimondreams 6 Comments

One more time, this is Trish your PQ challenge mistress with a final, fabulous theme for your final Project Quilting challenge of season 14!

But first, let’s talk about “sew not a square” projects. Again this time we had well over 200 quilters who started and completed a project in a week. Kim tells me this means we’ve had a season average of 216 projects per challenge! Outstanding work from one and all.
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 By Prairie Light Designs. 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.
And now, let’s get down to work. I don’t want you to be anxious, but this week we’re all going to face down something scary.

 

Challenge 14.6 – Conquer a Fear

You see, to grow you must face fears. It’s the way to achieve and succeed. If you only do what’s safe and comfy, you’ll stagnate and grow soft.

 The way forward is always by finding and following a new path. Growth.

 

So this week, you will confront something you fear. Your project must be about growing through exploring the unknown.

 

What?

 

Well, first sit down and ponder your way forward: personally, professionally, creatively, emotionally, or quite literally physically moving forward in time and space. Where are you going? What do you need to overcome on the way?

 

Now, decide: how do I make that a quilt?

 

Here are some ideas:
• Are you thinking about changing careers? Going back to school? Does that feel more like a Delectable Mountain (#ad) to climb or you’re worried it’s just Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?
• Perhaps the holidays (pick one!) have been hard for you, but you’re ready to reclaim them with a fresh tree skirt for next year’s Christmas tree, or a seasonal topper for the table.
• Or perhaps you’ve been avoiding curved piecing or hand sewing or bias edges since you began quilting and it’s finally time to kick that anxiety to the curb?

 

Hopefully this will be a fun, freeing, liberating project in the end – although you may have moments of frustration or emotion along the way. Just remember, you can do it!!

 

Rule 1 – your project must involve conquering something that scares you.

 

Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline – that is, started on or after March 12th, 2023, and posted by noon Central Time March 19th, 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 19th at noon CDT (here’s a link to time zone converter to calculate for Central Daylight 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 19th 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!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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Comments

  1. Carol Andrews says

    March 19, 2023 at 12:29 am

    Kim and Tish I’d like to thank you for another fantastic Project Quilting Season with more of the best challenges!

    Reply
  2. Elizabeth Murray says

    March 19, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    My fear for the whole season 14 has been getting wordpress to work for me. Here is my project 14.6 turtle, which is a scary pattern and again, a scary post. My computer sounded alarms and said it was compromised, so I am posting this and going back to conquer it again.

    Reply

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