You are invited to join this blog as well. Just let me know you are interested and I will send you the invite. This is a great place to post about your fabrics sent, and progress on your quilt or item quilted for all to see!! This should be a fun six months and I encourage you to get the word out and grab a button on the side bar.
Signups will run through April 30th or until we reach 120 participants.
You can make a quilt, table runner or anything quilted!
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“In The Bag - Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge”
Fabric Exchange & Quilt Challenge Rules
1. Gather two yards total fabric: four 1/2 yard cuts or 8 fat
quarters or any other combination. Nice, clean, smoke-free,
pet-free, quilting fabric, preferably from your stash....Ugly Fabrics!
2. Wrap it up securely for shipping. Include a little note of
introduction, or any information you want your
new “In The Bag” friend to know.
3 .Leave a comment after the “In The Bag - Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge” post below. Then email your request to participate along with your mailing address to inthebaguglyfabricquiltchallenge@yahoo.com - please do not list personal information in your comment post!
4. Wait for a reply matching you to your new “In The Bag”
friend. These will be sent out by the last day of April. You will be assigned a participant number to use later, please remember that number.
5. Mail your lovely “In The Bag - Ugly Fabric” package to your exchange
friend.
6. When your fabric arrives, construct a quilt using 90% of the
fabric in your “In The Bag”.
You may add: Any percentage of fabric from your own stash & you may add 1 yard newly purchased piece of fabric. There is no min. or max. quilt size required.
Fabric may be used on front, back & binding of quilt. Quilt
size is determined by the amount of fabric you add to the 2 yards you will be sent in your “In The Bag”
7. The quilt or item you make is yours to keep.
8. Almost done… Post a photo of your completed quilt on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1921126@N24/
Photo must be posted by midnight October 1, 2012 to be considered for prizes. Use your
participant number on your photo post.
9. When you have completed all the steps, email me
inthebaguglyfabricquiltchallenge@yahoo.com and I will send you a
completion ticket number. (Good for a drawing & prizes)
10. Each entry = 1 ticket
11. Contest starts May 1, 2012 & contest ends October 1, 2012(at
midnight). Complete the process for each entry. Play multiple
times if you like.
We will draw for Prizes after October 1 2012
Hope you enjoy this quilt challenge and make a new friend.
63 comments:
Count me in! Loved the one like this last year but my partner sent me simply horrid pastel florals, SO not ME! It was a challenge.
Ooops! Did I say that? I guess I forgot that YOU, Ms. Colorado Lady, were my partner!!
This sounds like too much fun to pass up! Can the 2 yards be all one fabric?
Marianne, yes, it can be all one fabric, or a combination of fabrics..your choice!!
I want to play. I haven't tried a challenge like this yet. Sounds like a lot of fun. Please sign me up for the challenge and the blog.
I definatly want to do this one! I have a couple of "uglies" just begging to be made into something!
I'm in too!! Thanks to the curious quilter for the encouragement!
Count me in!! I can't believe I just said that, but this concept so intrigues me I just have to try it!! I think this will be a blast!! Thank you!
I thought I had left a comment earlier but its not here...I want to participate!
Thank you!
I definitely want to do this again, last year Brown bag was such a fun.
This sounds like fun! Is it internationell? I live in Sweden and I love to participate.
Gun, Sweden
This sounds like fun...I am in!
Deffinately sounds like fun. I have plenty of uglies to share, I want to be in too!
I'm up for the challenge! My guild did this last year to make mini quilts for an auction. I couldn't believe all the beautiful quilts from ugly fabrics! Thanks to the curious quilter for the invite. I love doing her charm swap!
I'd like to join in. Thanks to The Curious Quilter for posting about this.
This should be interesting. Count me in!
I would love to join in. This will be a first for me.
Ok Suzanne, count me in...I am sure I can find some uglies in my stash!
Does it cross to the UK? I would love to join in the fun =D
Alright, I'd like to join. I just finished my guilds Fungly Challenge and still have some UGLIES left to use in this one. However I would like to take it a step further, I would like to challenge Bonnie Hunter and her friend Tonya, I believe, who were the origanators of that Fungly Challenge to do this...haha. Wonder if they will, come on girls, join in!
Hi There...this sounds like fun! Can't wait to join in..Kylie
This sounds great! I have never tried a challenge before, but I have just sorted out some true uglies Id love to pass on. Count me in!
A quick look through my stash unearthed a few uglies. They don't exactly go together; I'd feel mean passing them on to somebody else!
But curiosity has me wanting to do it, so count me in too.
I have some uglies over here too - yikes. I'll go!
I will hunt up some Uglies from my stash too
This sure sounds like fun. Please count me in.
Hoping open to international.
Hugs from Australia
PS Need to check stash, maybe I will sign up twice.
Oooooh....I have never done anything like this before, but I am up to the challenge.
I feel kinda mean passing on my fuglies, though.
I'm signing up. I'm already mentally packing my fabric bag. I can't wait to see what I end up with!
I would LOVE to joinin !!! Sounds like alot of fun !!! :)
OOH! I was going to ignore this one... Could I possibly have "UGLY" fabric in my stash?... OH YES!! So for 24 hours from reading I resisted... NOW I have caved in!! Will be sending off the details ASAP x I just cannot send ugly... I have to find a "nice" piece as well lol xx
Count me in! I definitely have some uglies in my stash! Sounds like a lot of fun.
I'd like to join, too. Never done this before, but it sounds like fun. Count me in.
I would like to join too. I have a couple of questions. Should we try and pick fabric the coordinates or just whatever? Also, I almost always prewash fabric before putting it in my stash, is that okay? Thanks, this seems like a fun challenge!
This sounds like fun but I'm from Canada. I am really new to quilting but would love to try this. Is the contest open International.
A quick comment, seeing what COLIMA asked above...
Coordinated? Not required! Just get rid of some things you no longer want, or find ugly, or have way too much of! After all, it IS a challenge!
Prewashed is fine, as is not yet washed.
Last year I met Suzanne, The Colorado Lady as MY partner for a challenge like this. I made a friend. She took the horrid set of murky over-dyed batik, embroidered neon green, and harlequin shapes in odd colors, and turned it into a gorgeous quilt. I made placemats and a table runner with the florals and stripes she sent me. It was a blast.
- Mary, The Curious Quilter
Count me in on this challenge. I have never participated in a challenge like this and looking forward to it.
Sounds fun :) I want in!!
Sounds like fun! Stacy
This looks like a lot of fun; count me in. I'm already a blog follower. Glad I "paid attention" this morning.....Kathy
Fun, fun, fun. I'm definitely IN.
Ok Suzanne I am in -again & this time my swap fabrics will b REALLY UGLY,lol I already have ideas for some I was
Blind to purchase
Oh, Suzanne....Count me in. School is out in 32 days and then I can hit the quilting again. I am so tired when I get home at night I am not worth 10cents. Unfortunately or unfortunately I have a way of dumping my ugly fabrics, but I will do my best to pick out the ugliest of the ones I have. This sounds like such fun. Mine will have to be a large lap quilt because with my back problems I am unable to do full sized quilt anymore. Since I keep the one I make, it will not be a problem. Maybe this will get me to return to my Buttons for Baga blog which I have put on the back burner to my photography blog. Thanks for sponsoring this....I cannot wait to begin. Hugs, genie
Not sure my comments are coming through...Ros recruited me! Count me in!
This sounds like fun and I've never done anything like it so I'm in.
Rose challenged me to join in this fun. Please add me to the list, I am located in Canada.
Sending this agin, as my email wasn't set up before.
I'd like to join, too. Never done this before, but it sounds like fun. Count me in.
I definitely don't need another WIP, but I just can't resist. I missed Mary's charm swap because I was so busy this month, so I've got the swapping itch :) Sign me up!
I want to do this! I'm a newbie and the projects that I have finished prove it! Since I don't have to pass on what I make I think this will be a fun and good learning experience.
Happy quilting everyone!
Mary Berta
Count me in! I'm a newbie but I think I can do this one and I know I have some fabric to swap. This sounds like so much fun!
Susan
I'm sure I can find 2 yards of ugly fabric in my stash, count me in...located in Canada
Marie de Terre Neuve
This sounds like a lot of fun!
Please count me in, too!
Never tried anything like this before. Sounds interesting, count me in.
I would love to participate. It sounds like fun.
Just found this blog, sounds like good fun so hope it is not too late to participate. I am in Latvia so will be amazed (and delighted!) if you find a swap partner for me locally!
Oh count me in too! Email is on it's way.
Still being fairly new to quilting this sounds crazy to me, but, in a wierd sort of way, FUN! :) Count me in!
Been thinking about this for a while. I'm gonna give it a go. Not really creative on my own, but with all of the opinions floating around this house, I should be able to come up with something good.
I'd love to join. I am a newbie and just starting my stash but already have some fabric in mind for the swap. This sounds like fun!
Michele G.
Just stumbled upon your blog! Hope there is still space... sounds like fun
I'd like to join if there is still space. I'm from Canada as well. I'm also new to posting stuff and so I hope this works
Angel in Alberta
I have been going back and forth on whether to join. Well, I can't resist. I do not have a blog, by the way. I will ship international. I am in the US but what a nice way to meet some great quilters.
Betty
bgk 44@msn.com
I realize it's the eleventh hour. I would love to join if possible.
Mary K in DFW Texas
Love your creative idea! i am really tired of expensive customised bags This sounds like so much fun!
Susan.
Are you ever going to do another one?How much fun can you all have at one time???
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