Thread: Ideas for quilt group challenges

Originally Posted by VaQuiltgal

I think that challenge is a great one. Since you could be very creative finding a color to match your initial it would no be difficult.
My guild had a challenge once called "my initial quilt". We had to make a quilt that contained a block whose name began with your first name's first letter. I made a Log cabin. Was a well participated in challenge.

Too easy for me-------------Annie's Choice-----------my favorite to start with.

Originally Posted by ghostrider

I've read about other groups that used the name/color challenge and they had a ball getting creative with color names to match their first names. It would make me glad my name isn't Zelda (well, lots of things make me glad my name isn't Zelda, but that's another one ), my J name would be hard enough. I think it's a great idea! Go for it!!

You could call several colors JUICE. Apple juice colored, Orange juice colored, tomato juice colored, grape juice colored. Juice 1, Juice 3....................................

Jenga---------------for a wood tone like the Jenga blocks. (sp??)

Jackhammer gray,

Jack-o-lantern another orange

Jack in the pulpit (pinky purple??)

JADE

jackpot-------------a money colored green

jaguar--brown & tan---Or fire engine red if you meant the car

jalopy--rust colored

Jamaican----------pick any bright color--or all the colors the Jamaican bobsled team had on their uniforms and t-shirts.

Jasmine--------white

jay----------blue jay blue

Any variety of Jell-o or jelly or jelly beans

I'm cheating with THE WORD BOOK. I'll stop here--------------all sorts of names you can make up. And some of them like juice and jelly and Jell-o could be many colors.

Eons ago, Georgia Bonesteel had a Sun Bonnet Sue challenge. Each participant created a different scenario for the gal. (nursing, teaching, jogging, gardening...........) Then they made one quilt. They had some darling little Sues!

Z

this takes some real loosely made up colors------

Zero---------black is the absence of all light Or white-----------if you see it as the absence of all color.

Zoo-----------greenish brown

zenith------I'm thinking sky blue-------a far up as I can see

Zeus----------tan colored

Zennia-------------red for first choice, purple and yellows for 2nd & 3rd

Zombie----------gray?

Zing--------a bright color of chartreuse, purple, hot pink, electric blue----or Lemon Yellow for a zingy taste.

zepher---------that's a wind-------so some blue gray???

What would be the most fun with that challenge is reading what fun names folks came up with for every day colors.

Some challenges I've seen or participated in, a crayola challenge, an M&Ms challenge, Fire and Ice challenge, My State My State, my favorite book, what can you do with a panel, ugly fabric (everybody had a fat quarter of the same fabric), and one challenge where everybody drew a paper item out of a bag and then had to use the same colors in the same proportion. The paper things were greeting cards, food labels, paper napkins and that sort of thing.

I probably wouldn't participate in a color challenge based on the letter my name starts with.

Zebra black, Zebra white... I think the name idea is great! If a themed quilt is another idea maybe it could be expanded to allow for differing tastes such as instead of "cats" maybe "pick an animal" or holiday, flowers, movie titles (a child's dinosaur quilt for Jurassic Park, music themed fabrics for Music Man etc) something made from color wheel opposites or complementary colors, or something based on one of the seasons.

It seems people are hooked on the name game, so here's another suggestion.....how a color's translation into another language? White in English is Blanca in Spanish, so someone with a B name could get away with using white because it's Blanca! I like twists that encourage learning something new as well...

I'm responsible for the challenges for our guild. My current one is a Christmas one. Since were in Germany I picked houses since part of Germany's charm is the villages. The challenge was the nutcracker fabric in the kit that has to be in the topper. Max 24x24. Challenges are so fun!! Since your first one would be as new president I think I would include a fabric with presidential stuff on it and trust me it exists lol I think the name thing is fun! You could also have them pull out of the jar a color combo based on the first letter of their name. Good luck I'm having a blast with mine!!!

Thank you all for the suggestions. I will have the position for 2 years so I can see that I will be keeping the group busy with those varied ideas .

BTW I forgot when thinking of the challenge that I have one of the hardest letters when it comes to colours - 'K" - the obvious is khaki but that is far from my favourite colour so I think I will have to get creative and go with "kelly green" .

Thank you again - they are all goodies.