There’s a lot of challenges and contests that sewers can join throughout the year. Right now I’m currently managing the Holiday Sewing Contest for Pattern Review (PR). PR offers contests all year around.
Managing contests:
This is my fifth contest managing role and I choose to manage different contests to support other sewers take part and this increases my knowledge of how I can use what I know for different projects. It works both ways.
Everyone has their own style and take on how they tackle their projects so this gives myself and others the opportunity to ‘watch and learn’ or get motivated and sew along.
The first contest I managed was the Vintage contest and that was a steep learning curve but there were so many helpful PR members that gave the contestants a hand with dating their patterns, it was a great contest to learn from.
The rules
Here’s a link to the rules.
This is a really long contest – 6 weeks. You can choose to sew any holiday-themed item, not just the coming festive season.
Here’s a link to the discussion.
So while this doesn’t include cocktail dresses, which has it’s own contest coming up, you can choose any holiday.
By the way, contest manager are volunteers.
Cheers.
velosews 
Ooh – here you go tempting me with another contest that I would enter and not finish!!! Good luck with the managing.
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Good on you for giving your time to this. I know it can be quite time consuming! PR contests for me are about sharing the experience and having a deadline. (It always amuses me how Americans in particular, and maybe other nothern hemisphere folks, sew all these special clothes for Christmas and other holidays. Maybe because it's winter?). Perhaps I'll use this one as an incentive to actually sew some sundresses. Hope everyone is enthusiastic and appreciative of your efforts in managing it.
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Oops, just read the rules. Will have to think of something else for this one!
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How good are you to volunteer to manage this ~ my hat goes off to you! It sounds really exciting and I can't wait for the voting to begin … J
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You are very generous to be volunteering your time and expertise. PR is lucky to have dedicated members like you! 🙂
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That's a nice contest… I would really like to be in… I'll think about something to sew 🙂
Thanks for sharing,
MammaNene @ SergerPepper.com
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