Here is the original post for the Quilt Contests. I posted this on 7 - 31-2011.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/quiltin...t141680-5.html

I am listening. So any more thoughts on this would be appreciated. I am learning and gaining some new insight. So keep it coming.

I don't make big quilts I am more of a miniaturist so I don't always have a handle on what it takes to make big quilts.
Tho I have done a few years ago that were Queen size and Twin size.

My only concern for Doll Quilts is there is a Doll Quilt Swap so is that fair to use the idea for a contest? BTW there is a size limit on the Dolll Quilts in the Swap.

I saw the contests listed up until March of this year but nothing past that and I didn't see a new post listing any new contests for this year.

Firstly, thank you for all you do to make this a better community.

To the questions:
I usually miss contests because I usually only look at 'What's New'.

When I do see a contest, I usually dont think of entering because
1- I am time poor
2- I am not very skilled and would expect to get few votes, which would make me sad. It is hard to 'put yourself out there'.


What would make competitions more attractive to me would be smaller items and contests not 100% based on sewing skill, such as 'design and make a block'.

To be even more demanding..... If I did enter, what I would value hugely would be a '2 compliments and a comment' system. I don't think a whole string of 'lovely work' is going to help me develop. I would love to hear 'lovely colours, good points, would be better with more contrast' or 'great contrast, cute design but the green shouts at the red a bit'.
In other words, I am looking to grow, not to win.

I've only seen one so far, so I must be missing something too...not sure how this all works sometimes, but I find the idea interesting!

Here is the link to see all of the threads pertaining to the Contests over the last year

http://www.quiltingboard.com/quiltin...-contests-f21/

Scissor Queen - When the site was changed it disrupted the contests. Patrice was too busy for about a month and couldn't deal with it. So the last two didn't happen when they were supposed to. I changed the enter date for the Applique to accomadate the site changes. We didn't have anyone enter so it never happened.

then I set up the last one Kaleidoscopes for March. Since we didn't have any entries for the Applique contest I was reluctant to set up any more contests til I had time to think this through. So this is why I am asking for your opinions now. So I can make some decisions for continuing the contests.

We did have some beautiful entries in all of the contests except the Applique one of course. I would like to continue.

Can a broad PM ( like can be done with email) be sent out to all board members by either you or Patrice as to when each of these are starting, or is the system too restrictive?

to my knowledge that isn't a possiblity. On the old site I had the activity pages to use but this site doesn't have that. I can check into it again and see if there is something. But I doubt it. If there was I would use it for my Quilt Block Swap. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

In what section of this board are the contest posted. I usually only read "What's New" area.

How about Paper Piecing