15.5 – Wearables – Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING season 15

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Mar 3, 2024
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Hi – it’s challenge Sunday, so this is Trish taking over for Kim. I’ve got quite a special challenge for you, consider it a reward for how fantastic you’ve all been this season!

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 Sarah Goer Quilts! 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! Inspiration, quilting, fun AND Prizes!? Can it get much better?

Last week was QuiltCon, and many of the images on social media featured attendees wearing quilted jackets, carrying bags they’d made, or resplendent in clothes from quilting cotton. And it got me thinking: while Kim’s original inspiration for Project Quilting was television’s Project Runway show, we’ve never done a PQ challenge about clothing.

Some of you (perhaps me) may balk that quilters don’t sew clothes. But trust me – I’ve got something for everyone with this week’s challenge.

PQ 15.5 Wearables

For this week’s challenge, we’re working with “wearables” – I want you to either start or end fashionably. Here’s what I mean.

One option is to turn clothes into something else. Are you ready to recycle your wedding dress into something new? Is it time to make a special project from t-shirts or old ties? I hear denim makes great rugs!

Or, you could quilt-ify something you wear. Try some visible mending and embellish existing pieces, or make a tote or hat or apron.

Another option is to use the theme in a quilt. Make a wall hanging about your passion for shoes, or try that Ugly Sweater quilt block pattern (#ad).

And finally – there’s a special opportunity for you this week! You can make a piece of clothing. Any piece of clothing you sew will qualify this week: pajama pants, an Easter dress, a jacket, a skirt – you can do it all. And for this, I’m making a one-time-only exception to the usual PQ rules about 3-layers or embellished or pieced, etc. This week only, if you whip up a sewn piece of clothing (from a pattern is fine!) you can enter it in PQ!

Now, don’t get carried away breaking the rules – you still have to BEGIN and END your project between 3/3/24 and 3/10/24 (no WIP projects, please), and it still has to be FINISHED. Done means buttoned, bound, hemmed, zipped, snapped or tied with a bow – your project must be finished to qualify.

I cannot WAIT to see where you take this one!

Kim did a Round Up of some possible ideas for the challenge if you’re feeling stumped – click HERE.

RULE ONE: your project must be wearable, or have been made from previously worn items, or have another connection to clothes, shoes and fashion accessories.

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 March 3, 2024, and linked up by noon Central Time March 10, 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.

You may make more than one piece for the challenge but only ONE entry will count toward winning the prize.

Link up at the bottom of THIS PAGE by Sunday, March 10 at noon CT (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.
If you are having trouble linking up fill out this Google Form.
Alternately, by 11am on Sunday, March 10 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 fill out this Google Form. If the google form is giving you trouble email me with all the information asked for on the form – I’m not kidding – please email me – this is not meant to be the stressful part of the challenge – 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