Flowers on Friday + 2nd Annual Flowers on Friday CHALLENGE!

Himalayan Blue Poppy

Photograph taken at Butchart Gardens, June 2015

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Patchworks Studio 2nd Annual 'Flowers on Friday' Challenge - Summer 2015

The challenge: 

Make a quilted project (size information below)
using today's flower (Himalayan Blue Poppy) or one of these four 

Flowers on Friday photographs as your inspiration.

CLICK THE CAPTION TO GO TO THE ORIGINAL BLOG POST.

Pasque Flower

Sun Rose

Fritillaria

Cineraria

Here are the details and rules:

You must use photographs from one of the

 five blog posts as inspiration for your entry.

• Your project must be 3 layers and must be completely finished.
• The minimum measurement for one side of your project is 14" - a block, a runner,a quilt. a bag - you choose what to make.
• If you use a pattern you must give credit to the pattern designer
• There is no maximum size.
• Your project DOES NOT have to be a 'flower' quilt - ideas: use the colours ('green' will always work with the flowers), the shapes, the proportions of the colours in the photograph. 
• The style can be traditional, contemporary, modern or an art quilt.
• You can use any technique but you may not print the picture and use it in any part of your quilt. 

How to Enter:

EMAIL two photographs of your completed project - 

one full view and one closeup 

to Daphne Greig, Patchworks Studio

(Please place a tape measure along the shortest side of your project

 when you take the full view photograph.)

EMAIL your photographs to me using this link:

Tell me which photograph inspired your piece.

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Deadline for entries:

 September 7, 2015 - midnight, Pacific Daylight Time

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Judging:

An independent quilt industry professional will choose the Grand Prize Winner. 

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THE GRAND PRIZE:

The 'Best in Show' winner will receive this Prize Pack

The Grand Prize includes: Stonehenge Stone Strips My Pad &Schmetz Universal and Machine Quilting needles Row by Row 2015 Charm Squares Stonehenge Pink Ribbon - 5 fat quarters Northcott Colorworks (solids) - Fat Quarter Roll (blues) 4 Patchworks Studio patterns Additional prizes may be awarded  depending on number of entries. ************************************ The 'fine print'................... Only one entry is allowed per person. Judging will be from the submitted photographs only, so send the best quality photographs you can. To help you take the best photographs, click here for Holly Knott's Shoot That Quilt! article.