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Official McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ 2012 Professional Category Rules
 
Official McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star 2012™ Professional Category Rules (Click here to download PDF)

Eligibility
The McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ 2012 Professional Category competition is open to quilt designers who have received monetary compensation for their quilt designs, including design of collection quilts for fabric manufacturers or through self-publication. Previous McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ finalists are not eligible to participate.

Contestants must be at least 18 years of age by 3/13/2012, and must be legal residents of the U.S. or Canada (excluding Quebec).

Contestants must provide a working email address and agree to respond within 24 hours to any email sent to them by employees of New Track Media LLC/Creative Crafts Group/McCall's Quilting magazine.

Employees of New Track Media LLC/Creative Crafts Group/McCall's Quilting magazine, its respective parent, affiliate, subsidiary, advertising, sponsoring, and promotional companies and the immediate family members of each are not eligible. This contest is void where prohibited by law. Due to legal requirements in Quebec and European, South American, Asian and other nations, the contest is restricted to the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec). McCall's Quilting reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change these official rules at any time.

All entered quilts must be original designs, or original interpretations of traditional designs, and must be the individual design work of the contestant. Quilts designed by a contestant, but made and/or quilted by others, are eligible, but proper credit must be given to all involved in the actual completion of quilts and/or quilt tops.

Finalists and winners will be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility, compliance with contest rules, and release of liability, as well as a confidentiality agreement. No finalist or winner will be allowed to release any information about the McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Starô contest in any form without express permission of McCall's Quilting.

Entering the Qualifying Round
The entry period for McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ 2012 qualifying round is 3/13/2012 through 4/29/2012 inclusive. Entries must be made online at McCallsQuilting.com; limit one entry per Designer.

Each entry will include 1 clear digital photograph of a single completed quilt (consisting of three layers and quilted by hand and/or machine), made using any technique(s). Contestants are encouraged to enter quilts that show who they are as designers, including their favorite techniques, color palettes, and styles.

Each entry also requires a completed form, found on our website, McCallsQuilting.com. All contest quilts must be the original design work of the entering Designer. Contest entrants agree to abide by the terms of these official rules and by the decisions of the contest commissioners, which are final on all matters pertaining to the contest. New Track Media is not responsible for mail or shipping problems or delays, internet crashes or slowdowns caused by network congestion, viruses, sabotage, satellite failures, phone line failures, electrical outages, natural disasters, or acts of man or God.

Qualifying Round Judging and Timeline
Beginning 5/1/2012 and ending 5/20/2012, the public will be able to vote online for their favorite McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ 2012 qualifying round quilts. Public votes will be considered in the selection of Finalists by a panel of 3 quilting industry representatives who will serve as judges, scoring entries on the basis of overall appearance, originality, and design appeal. Finalists will be selected and given the opportunity to compete in up to 3 quilt design challenges, beginning 5/22/2012 and ending 9/30/2012. Finalists will be notified of their selection to participate in the first challenge round by 5/22/2012. Decisions of the judges are final and binding, and not subject to challenge or appeal.

Challenge Rounds
Challenge rounds will begin 5/22/2012 and end 9/30/2012. Complete rules and judging criteria will be sent to finalists at the beginning of each challenge. There will be 3 challenge rounds, each requiring finalists to submit digital photos of their completed quilt tops (for Challenges 1 and 2) or completed quilts (for Challenge 3) to McCallsQuilting.com for public voting and scoring by the panel of judges. Some finalists may be eliminated after each round.
  Designing/Sewing Period Voting/Judging Period
Challenge 1 May 22-June 17 June 19-July 8
Challenge 2 July 10-August 5 August 7-26
Challenge 3 August 28-September 30 October 2-21

The Designing/Sewing Period for Challenges 1 and 2 each allow finalists 27 days including 4 weekends to design and sew quilt tops. The Designing/Sewing Period for Challenge 3 allows finalists 34 days including 5 weekends to design and sew completed quilts.

The Challenge 3/Grand Finale round will require finalists to send their completed quilt to the McCall's Quilting offices for photography and judging.

The winner of the McCall's Quilting Quilt Design Star™ 2012 Professional Category contest will be featured in an issue of McCall's Quilting magazine. Additional prizes may be awarded at any point during the contest.

Display and Publication
All electronic entry materials become the property of New Track Media LLC/Creative Crafts Group/McCall's Quilting. Quilt photos and information on entry forms may be published in McCall's Quilting, at McCallsQuilting.com, or in any other format or publication owned or controlled by New Track Media. Designer e-mail addresses and phone numbers will not be published or released in any format without express permission of the Designer.

Acceptance of Finalist status and/or a prize constitutes winners' permission to use their names, likenesses, cities and states, and to be photographed for advertising and publicity purposes, without additional compensation except where prohibited by law. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.
 
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