Happy Sunday everyone!  We’re so anxious to get started with Season 16 of Project QUILTING on Sunday, January 5th, 2025 that we’ve decided to add to the Project QUILTING challenge fun of Season 16 and offer a Mystery BONUS Project QUILTING Challenge. We haven’t done one of these in quite awhile (maybe 10 years) but we thought it would be fun to team up with Blue Bar Quilts and bring you a little extra!

How will this be different than the normal Project QUILTING Challenges?

• • To participate you must purchase one of the two bundles from Blue Bar Quilts.

• • You will have more than a week to complete the challenge.

• • The fabric bundle consists of eight quarter-yard cuts. Both bundles include one identical fabric, a squirrel & floral print on a black background. The twist is – Kim picked seven coordinating fabrics and Trish picked seven coordinating fabrics – which we’re keeping a surprise. You get to pick the bundle. Do you want to go with Kim’s style or Trish’s style? If you’re unfamiliar with their style I recommend browsing their websites and social media:
    • Trish
      • Website
      • Instagram
    • Kim
      • Website
      • Instagram

This or That Challenge

Rules:

1. You must use all 8 fabrics from the bundle, and can add anything to it.

Two curated bundles, one each by Kim & Trish, include eight 1/4 yard cuts, a total of 2 yards of fabric in each bundle priced at $21.99 (a $26 value). Both bundles contain one identical fabric, a squirrel & floral print on a black background. Available for pre-order, bundles will ship on January 15, 2025 or be available for pick at the shop* anytime on or after January 15, 2025. Availability of bundles is limited and other fabrics may be substituted with similar prints if necessary.

*bundles will be kept by the shop register

2. The final circumference of the quilt must be no less than 120″ – so toddler quilt/wall hanging and bigger.

3.  You may add as many other fabrics and other materials as you wish.

4. That’s it – anything else goes!

5.    LINK UP your COMPLETED (pieced, quilted and bound) quilt entries with a description of your creative process, including where you are (ie, I create in Madison, WI) and the size of your project by Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, at noon, CDT, to –OR email a picture/description of your completed project to {projectquilting at gmail dot com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line.

6. EXHIBIT! Yes there will be an exhibit of the quilts in May of 2025 at Blue Bar Quilts! Once you’ve finished your quilt, if you wish for it to be on display please ship it to:

Blue Bar Quilts
6333 University Avenue
Middleton, Wisconsin 53562

Include in the package your name, address, and story behind your quilt.

Buy Your Bundle!

Order your bundle now! Remember – availability is limited so don’t wait too long!

Blue Bar Quilts is also giving you a coupon if you want to do a little extra shopping while you’re at their site! Coupon code PQBONUS25 for 20% off a purchase of $75 dollars or more. Code must be entered at checkout, good on online orders only, single use per customer, full price merchandise only, doesn’t include items already on sale or Cherrywood fabrics. Coupon good from December 22, 2024 through February 15, 2025.

Kim Bundle – This?

or …

Trish Bundle – That?

Prizes!

WHAT! Yes – even though there won’t be prizes for the 16th season regular Project QUILTING Challenges, Blue Bar Quilts wanted to give out a few prizes for this bonus challenge!

Blue Bar Quilts will send a prize to the two winners of the bonus challenge – one for each of the Kim & Trish bundle projects.

 

Link Up

Link up your finished quilt below here. If you have troubles with the link up, please email your name, story behind your quilt and a photo of your finished quilt to projectquilting@gmail.com and I will link up for you. If you aren’t linked up you will not be qualified to win prizes or be a part of the exhibit.

I’m excited to see where this challenge takes everyone! Have fun and make it work!