Lark Books has announced a new contest called Quilt It! and is offering some great prizes, including a grand prize of a $100 gift certificate from Hancocks of Paducah and 11 Lark quilting books. Four other quilters (one in each of the four categories in the competition) will each receive the 11 books as well.
To enter, read the rules then email them at QuiltIt@larkbooks.com with the title of your piece, at least one photo of your quilt, and the category in which it should be judged. Entries must be an original quilt of any size that incorporates at least three of the following five required elements:
- Bird(s)
- Mountains
- Silver fabric, thread, or item
- Recycled/repurposed material
- Beads
The categories are:
1. Best Use of Beading or Beaded Elements
2. Best Use of Hand-Dyed/Altered Fabrics
3. Best Art Quilt
4. Best Use of Recycled Material
The Grand Prize will be awarded to the quilt that exhibits the most quilting creativity, originality, ingenuity, and artistry in addition best use of the required elements.
The Grand Prize winner and Category Prize winners will each receive the following 11 books:
Quilt It with Wool
Simple Contemporary Quilts
Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again
Quilts, Baby!
Masters: Art Quilts
Color Your Cloth
Pieced Symbols
Quilt National 2009
Creative Quilting with Beads
500 Art Quilts
Pretty Little Mini Quilts
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Thanks for the information. I have passed it on to my group, Sisters in Cloth.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fun challenge. If I didn't already have a million other things to finish and start;)
ReplyDeleteDebbie
OMG!!!!!! I saw this post and the hotlink to Pretty Little Mini QUilts... since I have a project in it, decided to go see if the link was live and what was there, as the last time I looked at Lark's site there wasn't anything... MY PROJECT IS ON THE COVER!!! That's two for two covers with Lark books...WOW! Thanks for sharing these links... what a way to start my morning!
ReplyDeleteThe rules say US and Canada only... just so the rest of us know!! (I got all excited before I realized we could not take part...).
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting in in any case and good luck to all of you in the right countries!