DaGMT 2015

 It's time to commit, hotties! You know you have a basket/closet/room/floor of your house full of UFOs you'd like to maybe be able to finish in your lifetime. Well, assuming you plan to sew in February, now is the time!

"Drop and Give Me Twenty" 2015  is determined to overtake your February! Start collecting those UFOs, WIPs, PHDs, Pending Projects, or whatever you like to call them - in the month of February we're going to whip every last one of them into a completed quilt.

It's our fourth year celebrating the simple act of quilting 20 minutes a day, every day, for a whole month, and the insane amount of progress that can be made when one commits themselves to participating. I have long preached that quilting for 20 minutes a day will get you far, and this is a way for me to get to say "See? I told you so!" Because who doesn't love a little good-natured gloating?

And this year, we are changing things up a little bit. In a self-preservationist move to streamline the rules of signing up and the points system, gone is the dreaded linky. Gone is the need to report your progress on a blog, although if you have a blog, and you blog about the event, OMG I will love you. Gone entirely is the points system for prizes - if you sign up as indicated below, you are in and eligible for a prize. Done. I joked with a friend yesterday that I'm running a "half-fast" DAGMT this year. I see no reason why something good enough for Verizon can't be good enough for EPQD, right?

Also this year, gone is the flickr for sharing of photos. Too much confusion, none of which I as a non-techie could help out with and fix. I've instead started the "Drop and Give Me Twenty 2015" page on Facebook, which is a place where those who wish to can share photos, share their commitment statements, etc. I'd still love to see blog posts and hope I do. But for those who don't blog, this will be a good area to share and cheer each other on.

One thing that has not changed - DaGMT 2015 will once again feature one of a quilter's favorite things - PRIZES from some seriously fabulous sponsors! Many, many thanks to these wonderful sponsors. Please visit their sites and see what else they have to offer!

Fat Quarter Shop - two $25 gift certificates

Follow That Thread - an official Aurifil dealer, $35 gift certificate

  Purple Moose Designs - Two $20 Gift Certificates

Gotcha Covered Quilting - $25 gift certificate
ALSO - offering 20% off in her online store for the month of February to all DAGMT participants! Wowza!

The Patchwork Pearl - Island Batik fabric pack

Sue Pelland Designs - Two $20 gift certificates

Poorhouse Quilt Designs - fabric/pattern/interfacing kit for her newest pattern, "Going Places Hobo"

More prize sponsors will be added as they are procured. If you have a business which might like to sponsor, please don't hesitate to let me know.

And how will you win a prize, beyond that fabulous prize of a huge feeling of accomplishment and an empty UFO basket?

Commit to joining us by posting on your blog or the facebook page your commitment statement, which should read something like "I, (name, owner of too many UFOs and/or more fabric than I can hope to use up in my lifetime) am joining Quilting Hottie Haven's third annual DaGMT event, and pledge to quilt for (at least 20 minutes, while I catch up on my dvr-ed episodes of Outlander, instead of doing the laundry) every day of the month of February, 2015. In doing so I hope to (finish the project I started in sixth grade, make an award winning quilt from scraps, ensure my husband will never find my secret stashes because I'll use them all up this month) and I think Beth Helfter is brilliant for coming up with this concept and inspiring me to join." Obviously the parts in parenthesis will be your own words. You also are welcome to leave off the entire last part, but keeping it in there will only make me love you all the more.

If your statement is on your blog, let me know you posted it by emailing me at evapaigequilts@charter.net. The only bad thing about now not having a linky is I won't get notifications of new members unless you notify me yourselves. I should see the ones on the DAGMT FB page, so no need to notify me of those unless you just feel like sending me a note to tell me how fabulous I am.

Have a blog? I'd love if you could be a PR angel and post the button! You'll find it at the top of this post. Stick it on your blog's home page, and make sure it links back to this page. Let me know via an email that you did so. There will be a special prize drawing for PR angels!

Post photos of your progress to the Drop and Give Me Twenty FB page all month long so we can all admire your coolness. The photo should be of some great progress you've made on a project that you have spent some of your allotted time working on during DaGMT. Should your pledged time that day be spent rolling naked in your stash rather than actual sewing, please refrain from posting a photo no  matter how artsy and striking you believe the photo to be. This is a family show, people.
Let the games begin!