2022-23 Crossword Challenge
Crossword Puzzle Sew Along Challenge, (September 2022 – December 2023)
RULES
- You must sign up! I will not be printing out the clues every month. The cost of printing is too expensive, especially when email or text messaging is free. If you are new to the guild please provide your email address and your cell phone number. All correspondences will be through one of these two sources.
- After the meeting each month you will receive three clues sent to you by email. When you have answered the clues correctly, you can text or email them to me and I will send you the Sew Along by email. quilts@hotmail.com. 601-954-1166. At the end of each clue is the name of the source where the block can be found.
Don’t jump the gun and make blocks without reading the Sew Along. The Sew Along will tell you the size of the block you are making.
If you are having difficulties with the clues, I suggest you talk to your sewing buddies. Two heads are always better than one!
YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE SEW ALONG UNTIL I RECEIVE THE ANSWERS TO THE CLUES. - You must make all the blocks by the size that is required. You will be allowed to substitute a block, if you just hate one of them. However there are some requirements for the substitution. The size must be the same and the name of the block must fit into the puzzle in the same place as the block that you are replacing without changing the puzzle.
- August 2023 will be the last of the clues. In September I will send you a diagram of the layout that I have drafted. You are not required to use this diagram. You may do your own layout. The quilt can be made larger if you prefer. Either by adding borders or more blocks. Use your own creativity! Embellishments of all types are allowed.
- The December 2023 meeting is the completion of the challenge. Your quilt must be quilted, bound, and labeled. The membership will vote for the best quilts. First, second and third place prizes will be given.
This is a great scrap buster and a very good skill builder. None of the blocks are above your skill level!
2020 Challenge
December 2020: The 2020 quilt challenge has ended. If you completed the challenge, take a
picture of it and send it to pbqnewsletter@gmail.com. Jo Ellen will create an album on
Facebook and post them in it.
Contact Betty Reid at thequiltedpetal@gmail.com for more information
“A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS”
ABC, it’s easy as 123! (Do Re Mi…)
Completion date: July 8, 2020
This year’s quilt challenge is to make a quilt for YOURSELF that represents a few of your favorite things – things that you love! This can be as easy or as complicated as you choose.
A B C as easy as 123
A is for appliqué so you are to include at least 1 appliqué technique. This may be raw edge, machine straight stitch, fusible, needle turn, absolutely any type of appliqué you choose! THE APPLIQUÉ IS TO REPRESENT something you LOVE! It can represent a hobby, family member, pet, or it can be words.
B is for block so you are to include at least 2 of your favorite blocks. These may be as simple as a nine patch or as elaborate as an English paper pieced block. You may choose block pattern you have made hundreds of times or challenge yourself to a block you’ve always wanted to learn! Again… up to you! B can also stand for beads, so if you love them…. add them! Beads are not a requirement, but they are allowed.
C is for color so you are to include your 3 favorite colors! You may also add black, white or gray. If your favorite color is blue you may use variations of blue (robin egg, royal, navy). Don’t stress or over complicate the color rule… the colors in your quilt need to be colors you would wear or have in your home decor because that means you would love them! C can also stand for couching so if you want to give it a try, go for it! Again, not a requirement but it is allowed.
SIZE: Minimum 40 x 40 wall hanging up to 60 x 72 lap / throw size. Make it to fit your personality and your size!!!
2019 Color Wheel Challenge
This year we are going to explore color using the color wheel. This challenge is not a design challenge. It is to show how color can change or deceive the mind into seeing a different design. The challenge is also to help improve color choices and learn to use the color wheel as it was designed to be used.
I have chosen a pattern that must be used for all blocks. Each month I will give a 10″ square of a different color of Kona cotton and assign a different color scheme on the color wheel to be used.
Each month we will make an additional block by the selected color scheme for that month. Example: First month; I assign complementary and the color green. You will then make one block using the green fabric and then you will choose another color on the color wheel to make another block using the complementary scheme.
When the challenge is complete we will have 12 blocks for a small throw or child’s quilt. Additional blocks can be made by each color scheme, if you so desire.
A small fee of $3.00 will be charged to cover the cost of the fabric.
- The provided pattern must be used on all 12 blocks.
- The pattern can not be changed from its original design.
Example: If a piece is a square it must remain a square and the same for half square triangles.
- Some of the fabric given out for a color scheme must be used. Example: At least one half square triangle must have the fabric that was given out for that month.
- No additional colors can used in the block except what the color scheme calls for. Example: Complementary is a two color scheme, a third color can not be added. However, neutrals can be added. NEUTRALS ARE WHITE, BLACK AND GRAY.
- You can not repeat the color layout on all blocks. Example: Color scheme is complementary, you choose a color layout for the block. You choose a second color, using the complementary color scheme, but a different color layout for that block so they do not look the same.
- You do not have to use only solids. Tone on tone or prints can be used as long as they do not add color that is not in that color scheme. Example: Complementary color scheme using green and its complement, red. You have fabric that is green, red and yellow. You can not use that fabric because it adds another color.
- Tints and shades of the colors that apply to a particular color scheme may be used, as long as the original fabric that is assigned to that color scheme is used also. Example, Color is green, you could use a tint as light as a mint green or a shade as dark as dark forest green.
REMEMBER YOU MUST USE THE ORIGINAL COLOR THAT IS GIVEN OUT ALSO.
- You must make all 12 blocks. You can make additional blocks, if you want to.
- Your quilt must be quilted, bound and labeled to participate in the Parade of Color at the December meeting. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place.