There are 4 months until the Festival of Quilts and you mentioned you would like to make a Linus Quilt as part of The Darkside's year of Events, so here we go ......
The Sewing Place's Project Linus Quilt ChallengeProject Linus have an excellent website
which tells you everything you need to know but basically we are looking to
make and donate quilts in one of these three sizes ....
Lap quilt – 36″ square
Cot quilt – 47″ x 55″
Single bed quilt – 55″ x 79″
I intend to take them up to the Project Linus stand at FOQ this year,
but you may take yours up yourself if you so wish.
The
deadline for getting the quilts to me will therefore be the
2nd of August 2018.
This gives you a full four months to make your quilt.
To give a sense of uniformity for The Sewing Place's quilts,
we would each make a quilt in just
TWO colours ...
plus a
neutral background colour of Black, White or Grey if desired.
The
Main colour and its
Complimentary partner ... eg
Red and Green,
Yellow and Violet,
Blue and Orange etc.
These colours will be randomly allocated by draw to each participant on
Monday 9th April 2018and the rest is up to you ....
You choose the size, pattern, and technique(s) used.
There will be a
common color for the binding of your chosen neutral background colour or Black,
if no background colour was used, as that will frame and emphasise the lovely bold colour combinations.
The Gals at Project Linus will remove any labels to ensure complete anonymity,
so lets save them the trouble ... No labels please!
Send Pics of your finished quilt to me at
iminei@thesewingplace.org.uk before the end of July
and we will have an anonymous vote for the Best Quilt with the winner receiving an exclusive The Sewing Place Prize Winners badge.
Closing date for Entries is
Sunday 8th April at Midnight (GMT) and the colour combos will be drawn and allocated on Monday 9th April
That's it (I think) So Sign up here ......