Two years ago, I hosted a stitching challenge. I directed you to a freebie, and you all chose fabric and colors and stitched it up and went head to head with your sister stitchers. How about we do it again? This time, the game's a little different.Remember last summer when Barb and Alma gave us the design Sweet Home Alabama? They based their design on The Workbasket's freebie "Pink Flower" (which is why the flower doesn't show up on their chart).
Here's your challenge: starting from Workbasket's Pink Flower, create your own souvenir sampler of a place you love or have visited recently.
Don't think you're artsy enough? Stitch the Blackbird version (pdf) using your own colorway.
Don't have enough time? Just do Pink Flower. Again, choose your own colors.
Obviously we will have three categories of competition this year. Unlike our last challenge, the finished-finished will go toe-to-toe against the stitched-but-not-finished projects. And unlike our last challenge, I'll provide small prizes to the winners in each category. How about a $10 gift certificate to each winner, as voted by loyal readers?
If you didn't play last time, here are the rules: You stitch up your version and send a photo to me. Don't post it to your blog*, we want to keep these anonymous! I'll post the versions here and everyone will vote. Due September 15. That gives you a few months.
*If you don't blog, you can still play!
17 comments:
You are a wicked enabler! You know we can't resist a challenge, count me in too.
Okay, I want to play. I am in the mood for a challenge. This sounds like a lot of fun.
It was that September due date that sucked me in.....I can't claim I'm too bogged down with my 15 January Challenge pieces if I have over 5 months to stitch this little lovely.
Pam
I'm in, I'm not usually creative so at least I have a few months to figure it out.
Great challenge idea!
I didn't do your last challenge, so I would love to do this one. Count me in.
This sounds like fun! Thank you for organizing.
dd
Oh this sounds SO FUN! I won't let the deadline slip by me this time!
This sounds fun! Count me in please :)
I;m thinking I'll give this a shot this year - I do love that pink flower! Anyway - a great excuse to avoid those 15 WIPs (oh wait, I did finish 3 or 4 of them...all that's left is the big stuff).
Thanks for getting it going again.
Mary in MN
Sounds like fun...count me in!
What a super idea - count me in.
Yes please - I was very sad when bbd published the freebie but without the flower - so glad it's now available! britstitch at gmail dot com
Count me in!!!
I am excited!!
Just found out my daughter is having a baby Girl!!! I wannna try to stitch this to mark our lil Abbigail!
ooo have been enabled by you all and Gillie again ....count me in too please if that's ok :)
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I'm in too - this will make a cute Christmas present for my little niece. Great freebie, and good idea!
Can we submit for multiple categories? I haven't actually visited anywhere interesting recently (San Francisco hardly counts as a visit), so designing one might be difficult. I could always go with a place I love, I guess. Hmm... guess I should get the creative juices flowing a bit.
Okay, I have a new question for you (and you never answered my previous one). What if I decide to go with a completely custom design? Maine doesn't have a state flower, so I can't really use the Pink Flower. How much of a problem is that?
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