Guidelines
Join the fun, show off your wonderful creations and be inspired by what your quilting friends have made.
Each week a new theme is announced and you can upload a photo and a short story of a quilt you’ve created. There are weekly prizes to be won donated by generous sponsors in the quilting industry. Each weekend, visitors to the Quilting Gallery site can vote for their favourite quilt.
How does it work?
- Monday morning there will be a new weekly theme announced along with the fabulous prize (or prizes) donated for that week.
- You submit a photo of a quilt you’ve made that follows the weekly theme.
- Quilt photos submitted will be showcased on the blog on Friday morning.
- Voting is done by visitors to the Quilting Gallery site from Friday to Sunday midnight.
- Only one vote per IP address, so have your friends and family come by to cast a ballot! (See note below.)
- The winner will be announced the following Monday.
How to Enter
Your quilt/project should represent the weekly theme in some way, either by design or the fabrics chosen. The quilt you enter must be your own creation. It must be something you made yourself, but does not have to be something you personally designed. If someone else did the quilting for you, please be sure to give proper credit to your quilter.
Long-arm quilters: You can submit a photo of a quilt you completed for a client, however, it is your responsibility to get permission from your client to do so. Please be sure to give proper credit to the quilter.
When you submit your photo, you will need to know the approximate height and width of the quilt you are entering. (Not the photo size, the actual quilt.) Additionally, you can also enter a short (300 characters) story about the quilt.
One entry per person each week. While you can enter each week, you can only be awarded a prize once every 4 weeks. If you should have the most votes for more than one week within a four week period, the actual prize will be awarded to the person with the next highest votes.
Contest links:
- Submit your photo
- Latest contest posts – View the quilts and vote
- 2012 Themes, Winners & Sponsors
- 2011 Themes, Winners & Sponsors
- 2010 Themes, winners & sponsors
- Sponsor a contest
Note: The sponsor may wish to feature the winning quilt on their own blog or in their newsletter. By entering the contest, you are giving them permission to do so.
Blog It
Please share the logo below on your own blog. The more contestants, the more exciting the contests!
Inviting others to vote for your quilt:
Effectively August 28, 2011: a change to the voting rules for the weekly contests.
While I have always encouraged those that enter the contests to invite their friends and family to vote for them, it is not appropriate to post about the contest on web forums not related to quilting and invite those users to vote for your quilt. For example, sites related to cars, motorcycle clubs, guns/weaponry, etc. are not appropriate sites. In the future, I will be disqualifying any quilters from the contest that post about their quilt or the contest on these types of sites.
