Right Girls,
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 Challenge
Project Linus (http://projectlinusuk.org.uk/) 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 2018
and 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 ......
Couple of changes to the conditions of the challenge, please read here ...
The Sewing Place's Project Linus Quilt Challenge
Project 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 2018
and 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.
Elvis will make each quilt a label with the name of The Sewing Place, its creators user name and date of creation.
I will send these out to you during July
or if preferred, I could attach them for you when they arrive chez Imi's.
(Please leave a 6" section of binding unsewn to enable me to do this.)
Please don't post pics of your blocks, colours or quilt in this thread as then the competition at the end wouldn't be anonymous.
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