I’ve been eagerly awaiting the brand new UK magazine (out next month!!), Quilt Now, edited by the fabulous Katy Jones of I’m a Ginger Monkey. If you live in the US, Pink Castle Fabrics also has a subscription club for the magazine, which you can find here.
Katy and I have put our heads together and organized a fab quilt design contest, featuring my Jungle Ave. fabrics, out now in quilt shops! You can see the fabrics, as well as some coordinating Art Gallery Fabrics blenders, over here. Are you an aspiring quilt pattern designer? Would you like to have your quilt featured in a future issue of Quilt Now? Then this contest is for you!
Sample of a quilt layout – this is a free pattern that I designed using my Jungle Ave. fabrics – pattern out soon on the Art Gallery website
Contest Rules
1. Design a quilt block or quilt layout. The design may be hand-drawn, designed in EQ7 or Illustrator, whatever is easiest for you. We are most interested in the actual design of the block/quilt, not how well you can use a computer. 🙂 Blocks/quilts can be pieced, foundation paper-pieced, applique, whatever!
2. Quilt to be made using Jungle Ave. fabrics. If possible, please note which fabrics are used in which portions of the quilt. I will provide the Jungle Ave. fabrics to make the quilt to the winner of this contest!
3. Your block or quilt design must be e-mailed to me – [email protected] – no later than July 7, 2014. You do not need to send instructions at this time; just an illustration of the block or quilt is enough.
4. Katy Jones and I will choose one winner out of all entries received. The winner will receive the Jungle Ave. fabric needed to make their proposed quilt, and they will design and write instructions to make the quilt. The winner will receive a contract to be published in Quilt Now magazine, and their pattern will be featured in a future issue of the magazine.
Example of a hand-drawn block, by Emily of Mommy’s Naptime
Get your designing caps on! I can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🙂
looks amazing…. the mag and the comp and the fabric… blocks aren’t my thing. but I will think on it!
Ooh, I’ve had an idea for a quilt in my head for a while. Now I just have to work out how to make it!
I just thought of something else, would the fabric requirements need to be cm or inches? It’s a British magazine and here fabric is sold my the metre, but quilting works in yards and inches, so which would they want?
I don’t see it mentioned anywhere so I thought I’d ask if this is open Internationally or is it limited?
Oh interesting.
Sounds like fun, although the hand-drawn block at the bottom is exactly like Camille Roskelley’s Red Letter Day quilt.
Time to play with EQ7!
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that Jennie!
So excited for you Sara! This contest looks way fun!
This is such a fun contest, the fabrics are just wonderful! Is it limited to one entry per person?
Sounds Fun!
What a fun contest! I linked it on my social sewing calendar 🙂 http://swoodsonsays.com/sew-a-long-calendar/