15.4 – Hourglass – Challenge 4 of Project QUILTING season 15

We’re over the hump and creativity is in full swing, moving into the second half of the season with Challenge 4 today! Happy Sunday again – this is challenge mistress Trish (aka QuiltChicken) taking over to announce the next challenge.

Your projects last week for Inside Out were stunning, and you’ve again exceeded my expectations of what can happen with a simple idea. There are meaningful, cute, shocking, hilarious and gorgeous things happening around here each challenge, and I love seeing it. (Make sure you’re going back and looking at and commenting on everybody else’s entries – that’s where all the real inspiration lives!)

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 Wonderfil! 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?

PQ 15.4 Hourglass

It’s one of the most common yet foundational of geometric shapes: the hourglass. Just two triangles stacked tip-to-tip. Put them inside a square and it’s a block even beginners can sew.

But it’s also a symbol embued with meaning – representing the passage of time, a reminder of our inevitable mortality. A grim reminder of things lost and … wait, it got real grim all a sudden.

Maybe I should switch subjects.

SEX! Yay! That’s better: let’s instead consider the hourglass as an idealization of the womanly form and the lusty virtues of youth.

Er. Or maybe I should just stop and let you decide where you take this one?

Rule One: you must use an hourglass SHAPE in your project, but you do not have to use the exact hourglass BLOCK.

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 18, 2024, and linked up by noon Central Time February 25, 2024.

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.

You may make more than one piece for the challenge but only ONE entry will count toward winning the prize.

Link up at the bottom of THIS PAGE by Sunday, February 25 at noon CT (here’s a link to time zone converter to calculate for Central Standard Time: www.thetimezoneconverter.com) If you do not link up to this post you will not qualify to win a prize.

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.
If you are having trouble linking up fill out this Google Form.
Alternately, by 11am on Sunday, February 25 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 #pqSeason15 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 fill out this Google Form. If the google form is giving you trouble email me with all the information asked for on the form – I’m not kidding – please email me – this is not meant to be the stressful part of the challenge – 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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