Rules Updated 11/12/09

It’s that time of year again. Cooler weather means snuggling up under that new quilt you’ve been working on all summer. To celebrate Fall and the art of quilting, Lark is holding a Quilt It! contest. This contest has a few goals, namely to encourage, inspire, and engage the awesome online quilt communities popping up everywhere, to celebrate some of our most favorite quilting books (past, present, and future), and, of course, to have some fun!

One Grand Prize winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to www.hancocks-paducah.com and 11 quilting books from the Lark collection. 4 Quilt Category winners will each receive 11 quilting books.

The contest will run from October 24th – January 5th and winners will be announced on February 1st. To enter, read the rules then email us at QuiltIt@larkbooks.com with the title of your piece, at least one photo of your quilt, and in which quilt category, as set forth below, your Quilt should be judged.

Required Elements

Entrants will create an original Quilt of any size that incorporates at least three of the following five required elements:

• Bird/s
• Mountains
• Silver fabric, thread, item
• Recycled/repurposed material
• Beads

Quilt Categories

Best Use of Beading or Beaded Elements
In celebration of Creative Quilting With Beads, this prize will be awarded to the quilter who employs the best use of beading or beaded elements in his or her quilt entry.

Best Use of Hand-Dyed/Altered Fabrics
To celebrate the November 2009 release of Color Your Cloth, this prize will be awarded to the quilt that incorporates the most creative use of hand-dyed or altered fabrics.

Best Art Quilt
This prize will be awarded to the best art quilt. This category celebrates Masters: Art Quilts and the forthcoming 500 Art Quilts.

Best Use of Recycled Material
As beautifully illustrated in the January 2010 launch of Quilt It with Wool, this prize will be awarded to the quilt that represents a creative, original, or unexpected use of recycled or repurposed material.

Quilt Category prizes will be awarded to the best Quilt in each Quilt Category above. Upon contest completion all winning quilts will be posted on www.larkbooks.com.

Grand Prize will be awarded to the quilt that exhibits the most quilting creativity, originality, ingenuity, and artistry in addition best use of the required elements.

The Grand Prize winner and Category Prize winners will each receive the following 11 books:
Quilt It with Wool
Simple Contemporary Quilts
Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again
Quilts, Baby!
Masters: Art Quilts
Color Your Cloth
Pieced Symbols
Quilt National 2009
Creative Quilting with Beads
500 Art Quilts
Pretty Little Mini Quilts

Rules updated 11/12/09