15.1 – Bird House – Challenge 1 of Project QUILTING season 15

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Jan 7, 2024
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Welcome back, my friends, to a new season of Project Quilting! Fifteen?!? Who could have imagined this little idea of Kim’s would turn into … this AMAZINGNESS!

This is Trish, your challenge mistress. I take over Kim’s blog on challenge days to draw back the curtain and reveal the week’s big mystery: The Challenge!

In case we haven’t met before – let me introduce myself. I lecture, teach, edit patterns, and quilt as QuiltChicken. I live in Lodi WI with my husband, Dan, and the

clowder

: Scuderia, Fernando, and Dallara. I work in IT, I’m a word nerd, and I tend towards “sweary.”

To keep the challenge a surprise for Kim, too, she’s asked me (since 2017) to create and issue the challenges. I adore this job, and each time I’m left dumbfounded by the creativity of those who follow the prompt to completion, in JUST ONE WEEK.

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 Blue Bar Quilt. 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 (Post coming soon – I’m just finalizing some of the prizes)! Inspiration, quilting, fun AND Prizes!? Can it get much better?

We’ll get to know one another better throughout the season – so let’s get down to the task at hand, shall we?

PQ 15.1 Bird House

This week, I’d like you to be inspired by the myriad places a bird calls “home.” As always, this can be interpreted many ways: birdhouses, nests, birdcages, and trees could all apply – and you may take this theme anywhere else your imagination roams! If you can explain the connection (however tenuous) we’re on board!

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: Use the inspiration of a bird’s house for your project.

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 7, 2024, and linked up by noon Central Time January 14, 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.

Link up at the bottom of THIS PAGE by Sunday, January 14th at noon CST (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.
Alternately, by 11am on Sunday, January 14th 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 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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