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Ricky is preparing a very fun article for the summer issue of The Quilt Life Magazine and he is issuing a fast turn around challenge to members of The Quilt Show!
- You have two weeks to design and create a 12.5" unfinished quilt block.
- Ten finalists will be chosen and all ten will be featured in The Quilt Life online.
- Three winners will be featured in the printed issue and each will receive a bag of Ricky's delicious hand-dyed scraps that can used to dress many future Sunbonnet Sues.
Theme: Sunbonnet Sue - Summertime Hot!
Entries are encouraged to reflect the various activities that Sunbonnet Sue might pursue during the dog days of Summer.
Contest Rules:
1. Blocks should measure 12.5 unfinished. Blocks should left unfinished and edges left raw. No quilted blocks or finished edge blocks will be considered. These blocks should remains as they would be prior to joining them together in a quilt top and prior to layering and quilting.
2. All designs must be totally original and design and work of one person.
3. By submitting an entry to the Show and Tell, you agree to be considered for publication, and if chosen, agree to be published online or in The Quilt Life magazine.
4. Top three finalist must immediately agree send their block for photography. Blocks will be returned right away.
5. All Entries must be submitted by TQS members utilizing Ricky's Sunbonnet Sue Contest Show And Tell.
6. Photos must be crisp, clear, and taken straight on so they are square showing raw edges. No obviously skewed images will be considered.
Deadline: All entries must be submitted for entry by Friday, March 2, 2012 at midnight Pacific Time.
Have you ever made a portrait quilt? Who did you pick as your subject? Did you work from a photo or from memory? Did you piece it? Thread embellish? Paint?
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