It’s week 4 of the 2024 Pantone Quilt Challenge! If you’re just learning about the challenge or need a reminder:
- General info, categories, and rules are here.
- Judges are introduced here.
- Prize announcements are below!
- Follow @pantonequiltchallenge, @bysarahruiz, and @elizabethkray on Instagram for more challenge fun.
All participants are free to work at their own pace, and the link-up will be open April 22-29. If you need some additional prodding and/or motivation, we’ve laid out a handy schedule for you!
Sponsors
Before we get to the prizes, we have to give a huge THANK YOU to our wonderful challenge sponsors! Our challenge benefits from their enthusiastic and generous support! Make sure to check out their websites and social media accounts for more, and don’t hesitate to give them a shout-out for being such great partners.
Prizes
We want to make sure the challenge and prizes are open to anyone, from anywhere! However, due to shipping costs, we’ve had to allocate prizes as either US only or International. There will be 3 US winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and 1 International (non-US) winner per category. These will be selected by our judges and announced on May 6.
Note: For international prizes, any customs and/or duty fees are the responsibility of the winner.
Quilts (>30″)
Judge: Libs Elliott
- 1st – Windham Fabrics Ruby & Bee Fat Quarter box + swatch set + charm pack
- 2nd – Sew Kind of Wonderful prize package – Field Cloth 18-piece Fat Quarter bundle + Double Rings Pattern + Quick Curve Ruler + Sew Square 10 Ruler
- 3rd – Sewfinity $100 gift card
- International – CraftOptics WOW package – includes Magnifying Eyeglasses, high resolution binocular magnifiers, and rechargeable DreamBeam Light and travel case
Mini/Wall (<30″)
Judge: Yvonne Fuchs
- 1st – Oliso prize package – yellow TG1600 ProPlus smart iron + matching mini project iron + ironing board cover
- 2nd – FreeSpirit prize packing – 5″ charm pack of Tula Pink Neon True Colors + 10″ charm pack of Our Fair Home by Anna Maria Hornder + 2.5″ design roll of Besties by Tula Pink
- 3rd – Crimson Tate Peach Fuzz-themed Quilty Friend Happy Box (20 fat quarters)
- International – Aurifil 8 wt Evolve Collection by Suzy Quilts
Just The Top (>30”)
Judge: Brandy Maslowski
- 1st – Quilters Dream Batting assortment of 5 twin-size battings
- 2nd – Hancocks $100 gift card
- 3rd – Andover Fabrics 25-piece Century Solids fat quarter bundle
- International – Aurifil 50 wt Besties Collection by Tula Pink
In addition to the category winners, we have more than a dozen additional prizes to give away! Participants who complete the challenge per the rules above will be eligible for these prizes, which will be selected via random number generator and also announced on May 6. In the interest of giving more people a chance, winners selected by the judges will not be eligible for these remaining prizes.
All entrants, regardless of location, who do NOT win a category prize will be eligible to win one of the prizes offered by our judges:
- Libs Elliott 6-month Sew Squad membership
- Quilting Jetgirl $36 gift card (3 patterns)
US entrants who do NOT win a category prize will be eligible to win:
- Aurifil 8 wt Evolve Collection by Suzy Quilts
- OLFA prize package – 45mm Ergonomic Rotary Cutter + 1″ x 12″ Frosted Acrylic ruler + 6″ x 18″ Double-Sided Self-Healing Rotary Mat
- Aurifil Italian Color Builders 3-spool set (2 prizes)
- Hancocks of Paducah prize package – Kona Cotton Swatch Card + charm pack
- Soak prize package – 1 Full Size Flatter + 1 Full Size Soak + 1 Handmaid hand cream in Yuzu scent (3 prizes)
- Hobbs Heirloom Premium 80/20 queen-size batting
- Cotton & Bourbon handcrafted wood pincushion
- SewFine Thread Gloss prize package – Tins of Natural and Peach + a pack of hand sewing notions
- Karlee Porter – $150 off your choice of the Graffiti Quilting Master Class, digital designs, or edge-to-edge quilting services
International entrants who have NOT win a category prize will be eligible to win:
- Aurifil 50 wt Besties Collection by Tula Pink
- Aurifil Italian Color Builders 3-spool set (2 prizes)
- SewTites prize package – Wearable Magnetic Pin Holder + Machine Mix
And finally a coupon code for everyone! Karlee Porter is offering all participants $25 off her new Graffiti Quilting Master Class using the code EKR25.
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the great variety of prizes we’ve lined up for this year’s challenge!
Week 4 – Construction Zone
If you are following our timeline, this week is all about getting started on construction of your quilt or quilted item! Are you piecing everything together? Or does applique fit your vision better? Maybe paper piecing — English or foundation — is right up your alley this year? Give us a peek at your work-in-progress, and if you have tips or tricks to share we’d love to hear those too!
Share your thoughts in the comments or on Instagram by tagging us @pantonequiltchallenge and using our challenge hashtag #PantoneQuiltChallenge2024.
Week 3 Highlights
Elizabeth and I loved seeing so many of you cutting into your fabric last week — it’s so exciting to be getting started on the actual sewing part after considering your designs! Here are a few that caught our eye. Click on any photo to head over to each maker’s Instagram feed.
Danice G says
Still working on my little quilt. The prizes all sound wonderful.