When we publish a new volume of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, the designers actually make a real quilt block and send it to us.
Pecking Order by Laurie Baker from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 6
We use them to draft and write the block patterns.
Roly Poly Owl by Mary Lane Brown from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 6
We press them and photograph them.
Sawtooth Log Cabin by Kay Gentry from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 6
They live for a few months in big boxes in our offices.
Fall Frolic by Margie Ullery from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 6
But what happens once the issue is published and we’re finished with the blocks?
This is where you come in! We always have a contest and we give the blocks to winning readers just like you. This time around our contest is a little different. We think you’ll love it!
Write a haiku using Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks as your inspiration
A haiku is a three-line poem where each line has a specific number of syllables. Line 1 has five syllables, line 2 has seven, and line 3 again has five syllables.
Focus on Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volume 6 in your poem—the entire issue or just one design. As long as the topic relates to Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks in some way, it qualifies for this contest.
Here are some examples:
What a happy day…
100 Blocks hits the stands,
Oh page-turning bliss!
—Denise, a real contestant
six hundred fine blocks
I sew patches together
my creative quilt
—June Dudley, QM Editor-in-Chief
middle of the night
ideas assault my mind
keeping me awake
—Diane Harris, QM Interactive Editor
Zen Garden by Laura Nownes from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 6
More Details
Submissions accepted now through Jan. 6, 2013 at 11:59 MST. Entry form at quiltmaker.com.
One person may submit up to 10 haiku.
There will be a round of public voting from Jan. 8, 2013 at 2 pm MST to Jan. 13, 2013, ending at 11:59 pm MST. Each person may vote up to 10 times daily. The top 100 haiku will move on as finalists. In the event one author has more than one poem in the top 100, only her top haiku will advance. In the event of a tie, QM staff will make final selections.
QM will select winners to be announced Jan. 14, 2013. The top 10 haiku authors will win 10 quilt blocks each from Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volume 6.
See the current entries! (click on the “View Entries” tab)
I buy the book now.
Would donate to a quilt guild.
More gorgeous quilts made!
A masterpiece quilt
or a quick and easy gift
I would make them both!
prints and solids,
patchwork and aplique,
dreams do come true.
Cutting and piecing
Making quilts for my loved ones
Sharing the beauty
prints and solids
baskets of colorful pieces
my dreams have come true
Blocks galore in book
want it now, need it always
many different ones!
Traditional and
modern all in one book; what
quilting bliss and joy!
The book arrives; bliss
Open, read, dream, play, create
Warm, comfort, peace, joy
I wish this was open to Canadians!
So many colors
Playing in sewn angled shapes
Soft warm pleasant dream
This is what quilts mean to me…….I hope you like this
the leaves have fallen
many hues in a pattern
duvet upon our beds
This one I thought should be called the “quilt for the flowers”….
Designers create!
Give lovely arcs and angles -
Mine to sew and make
So many quilt blocks
waiting to be a top
Oh what fun to piece!
One hundred to see:
Bold fabrics patterns and shapes.
Inspiration now!
Happy I am to see
All the beautiful quilts from Quiltmaker
I hope I win them
Colored blocks bring joy
Each has pattern and beauty
Inspirational!
Fall Frolic Pumpkins
amid vines north, south, east, west,
little ones love best.
I love all the wonder quilts
Oh, I’d love to win!
I promise to put them to use.
I’d make others happy too!
Roly Poly Owl:
100 blocks Volume 6!!!
Soon to be my quilt!
Different colored fabrics,
Flying, soaring, sewing,
A colorful quilt that is all mine.
Dreams come true
100 Blocks to me from you
oh how happy would I be
Have I got a chance
to win this awesome block prize
to enjoy and sew
I’d make the asterisk quilt out of scraps and brights! Hope I win, I love that quilt.
For my girl purples
For my son Spiderman’s webs
How I love sweepstakes!
Modern tradition
one hundred blocks to go
inspirational.
Tweeting yellow bird
on the colorful scarecrow arm
knows no design harm.
From little acorn
quiltmaker grew block design
publishing divine.
Red limb bird singing
about Quiltmakers volume
of one hundred blocks.
Running tan puppy
amid background of boy blue,
Quiltmakers love you.
Sorry, on entry number 25, by me it should have read as follows:
Modern Tradition
One Hundred Blocks set to go
inspirational.
Volume number six
Quiltmakers traditional
to modern blocks rock.
Roly Poly Owl
centered in the new block
studies Quiltmakers.
Pecking Order pecks
a multiprinted design
in Quiltmakers hearts.
I am inspired
and hope to recreate soon
all Quiltmaker blocks