Challenge Quilt for the 2020/2021 Guild Season
Living through the Pandemic
OK friends, this challenge is for everyone.
The theme is “Living through the pandemic”. I can hear some of you now… “Ug Kirstin – not something else about the pandemic??!” Well, I couldn’t ignore what we are all talking about and how it has changed our lives so significantly this past year. Our work becomes part of our living history, what will people, a 100 years from now, think about the things we make?
What I am hoping this brings you is some thoughts about how our lives have changed for the positive. How we had to adjust to eating at home more frequently, dusting off a favourite recipe, finding new hobbies, cherishing long standing hobbies, supporting our local restaurants differently, virtual shop hops and spending time at home but staying connected with new ways. What did the pandemic bring to you, positive or negative?
The challenge will progress monthly and those updates will be in our newsletter and within the Facebook group, everyone will be able to participate.
What’s the prize this year? Well, that is being worked out, and I think we all win with working on how to manage scraps. But as a start, and open to everyone – paid members and new friends not yet with the guild – a paid membership to the Common Thread Quilt Guild for 2021-22. Eligibility for this prize will be determined by following along with the prompts and finishing a piece (fully finished) by May.
I will reveal other prizes along the way, and they will only be open to paid members, so members stay tuned. I promise you will get at least 3 weeks’ notice of any prizes so you can catch-up if you fall behind.
Here is our plan for this 10 month scrap challenge:
- October: Organize your scraps! Check pages 14-15 for these instructions
- November: Select your pattern/Design your own quilt?
- December: Prep your fabric
- January: Get sewing!
- February: Keep planning, making or sewing…
- March: How to quilt it?
- April: How to bind it? There is more than one way!
- May: Last month to catch up & Take a photo of your finish by May 30
- June: Sharing with the guild and top prize winners!