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16.2 – Ombre – Challenge 2 of Project QUILTING season 16

January 19, 2025 by persimondreams 3 Comments

Welcome back quilters for our second challenge Sunday of Project Quilting Season 16!
This is Trish Frankland (aka Quiltchicken) your challenge mistress, ready to bring you a new creative exercise.
I loved how many of you dug deep into your imagination last time for our mythical creatures challenge! There are 121 quilts linked up which were finished, and in the Challenge Group on Facebook I saw several in-progress pieces that were just too good for a rushed finish. I loved looking through all of the projects, and I learned a bunch of new critters and some great stories.

PQ 16.2 Ombre

For this week’s challenge, we’re not working with a color, a theme, or even a block—instead, let’s play with a visual effect!
Ombre describes the color shift in value or hue between two points. Usually, that looks like a smooth range between two colors, or a gradient of one color from light to dark.
To help you visualize, I found a fun tool online at https://colorkit.co/gradient-palette/01af2b-7989a4/
In fabric, this can be done across the width of just one fabric, by carefully selecting a number of fabrics … or buying pre-arranged bundles of Cherrywood!
This week I want you to play with the visual effect of ombre.
You may choose to celebrate ombre with a shift of color across your project, through a block, or simply by using an ombre fabric to make anything you’d like. Hunter’s Design Studio offers a number of patterns written especially to maximize ombre patterns, as do other designers.
I can’t wait to see what kind of fun you make with this!
We don’t have many rules, but please make sure you read through them and understand what’s going on. If you have questions, ask. Join the Challenge Quilts group on Facebook for a lot of encouragement and inspiration.
But most of all, have fun!

RULE ONE: Your project must use an ombre or gradient.

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 January 19, 2025, and linked up by noon Central Time January 26, 2025.
Each piece must stand alone as DONE to count.
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 PAGE by Sunday, January 26th 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 11am on Sunday, January 26th 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 #pqSeason16 and/or #projectquilting when posting on social networking sites to help spread the word.
    If you’d like to tag @PersimonDreams and @QuiltChicken on instagram then we’ll for sure see your posts!
  • Share progress pictures on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and your blogs – 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.
  • Find and Follow Kim and Trish on BlueSky!

 

Link Up

Please be sure to link up your FINAL project just below HERE. This is how I know how many folks actually participated and it keeps all the entries in one location so it’s easier for people to look through the entries. 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 for you.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter


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  1. Hilary Hudson says

    January 26, 2025 at 6:11 am

    More information on this piece @hilaryheron on IG. Couldn’t get the picture to rotate

    Reply

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