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A Clean Slate - PQ 17.1 Challenge

Hello! This is Trish, your PQ secret keeper and challenge designer, and I’m so excited to welcome you all to Season 17 of Project Quilting. I’ve been anxiously awaiting this big day! We're keeping Project QUILTING simple this year - no prizes just fun, inspiration, community and creativity!


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PQ Challenge 17.1 - A Clean Slate


Each year I try to provide a Project Quilting challenge built around the Pantone Color of the Year. This is the kind of thing I get totally into: I'm obsessed with Pantone, and I eagerly await COTY announcements (even though I often hate their choices).

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Again, this year's choice is a conversation starter for sure: they made the unprecedented choice of white. Well, technically Cloud Dancer, but let's be real: it's white.


I pondered how to work this into a challenge. Force you into an all white or low-volume project? Whole-cloth project on white? I feared many would revolt in protest!


Instead, I'm letting you decide how you'll start this year with the proverbial "clean slate" - we're each receiving the annual pressure to do/be better in the new year, and Pantone's choice is at heart an open space to breathe and let creativity sing.


I'm inviting you to block out the noise, sweep everything off the sewing table, and carve out a little time for quiet. When everything's not yelling, what do you notice has been whispering for you to listen? How about you make that?


Rule One: Your project should represent 2026 creativity starting from a clean slate. You get to interpret what that means. Start fresh, stay loose, and listen to your muses.


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Projects need to be created during the week of the challenge (started on or after January 4, finished by January 11).


Your project does not need to be a traditional quilt, but must meet at least one of these three 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 11 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, instagram picture, or public facebook posting

  • Alternately, by 11am on Sunday, January 11 you may email a picture and description to {projectquilting at gmail dot com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line. Yes – that deadline is one hour earlier because Kim needs some time to get it done.


Good luck, and remember to HAVE FUN! Don’t forget to post progress pictures because that’s part of the fun.


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Social Media

Since there aren't any prizes anymore one of the best things about Project QUILTING is the community we have! If you're able (and yes - I know social media isn't for everyone) be sure to join in the supportive quilting communities we've nourished over these past16 years.


On Facebook:

On Instagram - Follow us!

I'm not sure if the hashtags work anymore on instagram but if they do be sure to keep an eye on


On TikTok

If you're into TikTok - follow me @KimLapacek5 - I mix quilting into my random life tiktoks!


If you're struggling to add a link you can watch this video HERE ... OR ... email a picture and story behind your finished piece to projectquilting@gmail.com and Kim will do the rest for you. Don't spend too much time on this - it's just so everyone can see your amazing work!


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