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16.5 – Follow Your Arrow – Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING season 16
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- Mar 2
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Hi! Since it’s Sunday, that means I’m Trish Frankland (aka QuiltChicken) your challenge mistress and I’m here to introduce the next Project Quilting challenge!
We’re swinging into the second half of the Project Quilting season and I’m so happy you’re here! We made some changes this year and you adjusted flawlessly. We’re all having fun and making quilts, and I want to thank you for that.
Your Birthstone projects last week were a fun way to get to know each of you a bit more through your art. I enjoyed hearing how you each love or hate your birthstones.
And now it’s time to get to work, because I’m super-excited to see how you explore this week’s challenge!
16.5 Follow Your Arrow
This week’s challenge invites you to explore arrows.
As a motif or shape in quilting, arrows were there from Day One.
Chevrons can be a very modern, streamlined arrow shape.
You can find lots of patterns for arrowhead-and-feathered-shaft Robin Hood style arrows.
And of course tons of very traditional blocks create dramatic arrow shapes across your quilt
Your “arrow” can be simple and literal or deep and introspective (well, only as deep as a one-week deadline allows!).
Rule One: Your completed project must include an arrow shape.
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 2nd, 2025, and linked up by noon Central Time March 9th, 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, March 9th 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, March 9th 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.
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!
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