Quiltand Jealousy Quilt Show.
Her Highness sincerely invites all her citizens ( and indeed any foreigners who wish to join in) to participate, otherwise Her Majesty is going to feel a right royal prat cutting the ribbon on opening day in an empty show.
Here are the rules:
1. Each competitor may nominate up to two quilts. These quilts should be ones that they wish with all their heart that they could have made.
2. The nomination may, but need not be, for outstanding technical brilliance. The nomination may be for whimsiness, design, sheer cuddleablity or anything else the nominator wishes. They need not be by professional quiltmakers.
3. To enter the nominator shall e-mail The Queen at quiltlandchronicle@talktalk.net That e-mail shall
(a) have in the title the words Jealousy Show
(b) give the name of the quilt and the name of the maker
(c) give the name of the nominator and the name of their blog
(d) contain a working link to a picture of the nominated quilt in a website somewhere.
(e) have a brief sumary of why the quilt was chosen and how you found it.
It is to be taken as granted that each nomiator will in reality wish they had made many more quilts that they can nominate and may have chosen their nominations almost at random from their personal list.
4. If the nominator wishes she can contact the maker of the quilt, tell her of the nomination and ask permission for a copy of the picture to be added to this site. This is not essential. If no such permssion is granted the link only will be displayed in the show. Any permission granted should be forwarded to the above e-mail. The permission can come in separately from the nomination - there is no need to delay entry until it is obtained.
5. Nominations will be accepted until 22nd February 2008 .
6. Sometime thereafter -as soon as The Queen can manage which may well depend on whether she is inundated ( as she hopes!) with emails! - all the nominations will be displayed on this site either by way of link only or picture and link.
7. Viewers may then vote on their favourites.(Instructions will be given on the show itself).
8. At close of voting ( on 13th March - because the Queen goes away just after that!) there will be two winners:
(a) The Queen's choice - the one which in her royal arbitrariness she would most like hanging on her palace walls.
(b) Visitor's choice - the one you pick. In the event of a tie in this category there will be a quilt off with a further vote until a winner emerges or until the Queen loses interest and decides she can afford to award a gift to all remaining tied quilts!
If the visitors choice co-incides with the Queen's the second vistors choice will be the winner in that category.
For both categories the nominator will recieve a small, light ( less light if you are in the UK!), presently undefined but most definately quilty, gift. I will email the winner and ask for a postal address ( which can be a post restante if you prefer not to reveal your address). I will also endeavour to send the maker a little something, again if they are prepared to give me an address.
The idea is to allow citizens to help each other find cool and desirable quilts on the web and to give publicty to other quilter's websites. So please, play along!
2 comments:
What a fabulous idea for a quilt show - no sleeves or labels to sew on, no bag (complete with name) to make at 11.30 on the night before entries close. And best of all no fear of people saying "what was she thinking" or "oh look, there's a loose thread up there in the corner".
Now I just have to narrow down my list of dream quilts to find my entry.
Lisa
Me again Helen - just to mention that when I click "next" on the Quiltland icon from your page I get an error message saying you are not a member. I always have to work from the list instead.
Lisa
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