November is coming to an end and I’m getting this posted ahead of when I normally do. I know – shocking! I am extra excited about Project QUILTING starting this year as it will be SEASON 15!  Project QUILTING has grown to be such an amazing, inspiring, supportive group that I’m thrilled to continue the fun. Season 15 starts on Sunday, January 7 , 2024 at Noon Wisconsin Time (aka Central time). My goal right now is to put together an amazing group of sponsor to help motivate folks to make quilts in just ONE week! The past 14 seasons of Project QUILTING have been beyond amazing and I hope that we can make the fifteenth season just as amazing if not more so.

About Project QUILTING

Running 12 weeks during January, February, and March, Project QUILTING is a series of online challenges for quilters held on my blog, Persimon Dreams (www.KimLapacek.com). I post a new challenge every two weeks; participants have a week to meet the challenge and link up their final projects to the blog. Then, since it’s a little intense to make a quilt a week, there’s a week off to catch up with life.

Past sponsors have provided gift certificates, patterns, fabric, buttons, postcards, and other fun things which are awarded several ways:

• All completed entries are entered in a random prize drawing after the challenge deadline.

•  At the end of the season, a Grand Prize is drawn. Each completed project is gets an entry, along with a bonus entry awarded to anyone completing the season’s full slate of challenges.

(To learn more about the origins and challenges of Project QUILTING, visit https://kimlapacek.com/project-quilting)

What are the sponsorship opportunities?

There are currently four different sponsorship opportunities remaining – feel free to choose 1, 2, 3 even all 4! Even if you’re not a business that is focused on quilters you can still be a sponsor! Quilters love all sorts of things! This challenge encourages creativity, inspires beautiful art and most of all builds up fellow artisans so they can be the best than can be. The prizes just help make all of that better!

WEEKLY SPONSORS

Variable frequency: a week, a month, or the season! …..  Cost: prize value of $10+

• Get tagged at least 2 times a week on Instagram during the week(s) you sponsor.

• Get tagged at least 2 times a week on Facebook posts, spread out among the Project QUILTING page, Persimon Dreams page, and Challenge Quilts Group.

• Get linked in my weekly newsletter.

• Featured in 2 blog posts (each week you sponsor): weekly prize preview and prize announcement

GRAND PRIZE SPONSOR

Support the drawing at the conclusion of the season……… Cost: prize value of $25+

• Get tagged at least 6 times on Instagram throughout the season in the grand prize posts.

• Get mentioned and tagged at least 8 times on Facebook throughout the season in grand prize posts, spread out among the Project QUILTING page, Persimon Dreams page, and Challenge Quilts Group.

• Get linked in at least 13 email newsletters throughout the pre-season and season

• Featured in at least 2 blog posts: grand prize preview and the final grand prize announcement.

FULL! Thank you ~ ULTIMATE FEATURED WEEKLY SPONSOR

Project QUILTING Ultimate Featured Weekly Sponsor …………….. Cost: $75, plus a prize valued at $50+

Be the featured sponsor for one challenge week – LIMIT of SIX spots! Don’t miss this opportunity!

In return:

• Get tagged in ALL (minimum 5/week) Instagram posts for 2 weeks: challenge week and voting week.

• Get mentioned and tagged in Facebook posts for 2 weeks: minimum of 10 posts spread out among the Project QUILTING page, Persimon Dreams page, and Challenge Quilts Group.

• Get mentioned, featured and linked in 2 newsletter mailings.

• Featured on 4 blog posts: challenge, weekly prize preview, link up, and prize announcement posts.

If you decide to go this way just sign up right on the Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13rK8jNT9q96Qqg06ErdM4OgFJ5QmLY4YotyIfSpct0M/edit?usp=sharing

SUPPORT SPONSOR

Project QUILTING Support Sponsor ……………………………….. Cost: $150

Do you love the concept and idea behind Project QUILTING and just want to support this amazing community that has come together for creative inspiration with a deadline?

For $150 you can have your company logo included on the main Project QUILTING home page – https://kimlapacek.com/project-quilting – for all of 2024! You will also get mentioned and linked on at least 5 newsletter mailings and mentioned/tagged on Facebook during Project QUILTING among my pages – Project QUILTING page, Persimon Dreams page, and Challenge Quilts Group.

Send $150 via paypal to lapaceksorchard@gmail.com, venmo @Kim-Lapacek or check to the address below by December 22nd, 2023

Persimon Dreams by the numbers:

•  12,800+ Instagram followers
• 6,600+ people like Project Quilting on Facebook
• 3,900+ people like Persimon Dreams on Facebook
• 3,070+ members of the Challenge Quilts group on Facebook
• 34,800+ newsletter subscribers

The 14th season of Project QUILTING (2023)

• 12 weeks
• 6 challenges
• 1,258 quilts completed

In 14 seasons of Project QUILTING challenges, 7,989 quilts have been started and finished for the weekly challenges by folks from 48 states and 14 countries.

If you’d like to be a sponsor of any sort please send me an email projectquilting {at} gmail {dot} com. Thank you for your support!