2011 Monochromatic Challenge
Don’t feel like you have to do everything but here at Patchwork Times, in 2011, we’re going to be hosting:
- Stashbusting Reports
- Design Wall Monday Reports
- UFO Challenge
- Monochromatic Challenge
For the Monochromatic Challenge, it will be similar to the UFO Challenge in that I will draw a number on the last day of each month. The corresponding color will be the quilt you work for the next month. That post will also have a link box for you to share your monochromatic piece for the previous month. Your piece can be a quilt of any size, a wall hanging, a pillow case, a pillow .. whatever you want to do. The whole point of this challenge is to get us out of our comfort zone and try something new and hopefully use the stash.
There’s a bit more info about the challenge posted here.
Monochromatic Challenge
I am going to put up a clickable button on my sidebar so participants can easily find the info/projects but don’t feel like you have to copy it. I don’t want to take up your whole sidebar with my projects but I do intend to stay real busy in 2011 and am hoping some of you will play along with me.
We’re going to do this January – September, have a couple of “special” colors for October and November and take off in December. Add a background (white, ecru . . whatever background fabric you’d like) if you want to, or add black. Really, do what you want just so it’s kinda monochromatic.
Here are the colors we’ll be using:
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Indigo
- Violet
- Pink
- Brown
October will be a two color quilt. This is NOT a two fabric quilt. Say your colors are red and green. You can use as many reds and greens as you’d like, along with a background or black fabric.
November will be black and white with one color added. Use as many blacks, as many whites (or ecru) and as many fabrics of ONE color as you’d like. Examples: black, white and red or black, white and green or whatever third color you’d like.
The colors for each month and the link to the post:
January – Yellow
February – Violet
March – Brown
April – Orange
May – Red
June – Indigo
July – Blue
August – Pink
September – Green
October – Two Color (not two fabric)
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Will you be offering the HTML code for this Monochromatic button, too, like the UFO one?
Jeanne
This is such a great idea, I have printed off your colour choices for each month and plan to give it a go!
I’d sure like to try this one. I may just make pillowcases, but I’ll try to do something every month.
Hmm, thought I responded to this, that I would try it. I’ll see how it goes – this will be different for me.
I’m going to try this also. This may be a stretch for me with some of the colors as I don’t have a large stash and limited colors.
This sounds really interesting and as soon as I read this I started thinking about a project idea I could use this for. I think I can even do this completely out of stash!
I am willing to give it a go too…. Although i may find yellow and orange really hard as i have a perceptual disorder that affects my use of these colours.
Will you be providing the pattern for the awesome monochromatic quilt you are using as an example?
Sounds like a good way to get out of our boxes! I’m in!
This sounds very interesting!! I have wanted to break away from using fabrics from one line for some time now! I think some little projects might help me experiement more with color. Maybe some doll sized quilts or even mug rugs.
Thanks Judy!
Sounds great – not sure about Yellow… must look
Sounds like a great idea. I’m in!
I’m going to give this a go! I need new placemats and a table runner.
I have added this one to my blog and my list of things to do, I may not do one every month, as I am trying to finish up all my current UFO’s. But I know I will do some of them. Thanks for another challenge.
Have always wanted to try one of these so will say yes. I realy like yellow. Thanks for putting this on.
What ever happen to the color for June?
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