The Joyful Quilter
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ProjectQUILTING - PQ15.5 - Wearables
Welcome to The Joyful Quilter!! And... Welcome to the wonderful world of Project QUILTING hosted by Kim Lapacek @ Persimon Dreams!! This is my 5th year of participation in the Challenge. (I'm surprised it took me more than a season and a half to figure out that I've participated longer than 3 years!) Anyway, Trish Frankland @ QuiltChicken is the creator of the crazy challenges that participants will face during the next 4 weeks. This week's challenge is long overdue, since from its inception, ProjectQUILTING was modeled after the TV show ProjectRUNWAY.
Sassy @ Farm Quilter got me started at the beginning of Season 11 by inviting her readers to join in the fun. I accepted her invitation and the rest is history. As I have for the past two years, I will be dragging along my friend LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color again this season, as she enjoys having a reason to stretch her creative wings. Would YOU like to join me in this creative journey, too?
FAIR WARNING: It's a wild ride, but oh SEW rewarding!
Challenges are given and start to finish you have ONE WEEK to complete your project. PQ 15.5 can be found at THIS LINK:
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).
She went on to say the following: ... 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! (I’m doing this to allow us scaredy-cats a growth opportunity to try apparel sewing.) 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!
Tutorial for these baskets can be found 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.
Follow THIS LINK to the Season 15 overview. Check back on the Challenge release days (or sign-up to be notified automatically) and there may be one that YOU just can't resist.
It's a SHORT turnaround time!
Depending on the size and complexity of your project, that doesn't HAVE to be insurmountable. With a little creativity and a few evenings, you really CAN do this! My project was begun 2 nights after the prompt was announced and was finished with approximately 17 hours to spare! My post wasn't ready for release until the morning of the deadline. Since I have a thing about releasing my PQ posts on Sundays anyway, that wasn't a problem. I joined Kim's Link Party immediately afterwards.