***Aack!! I totally meant to post this to the Block of the Month community! I wish I could claim this as my ditzy move of the month, but the month still has a long way to go!!! In other news, I made all my birthday blocks. I won't be mailing them for a week or two, but they should arrive by late April or early May!****
I love seeing your finished quilts! I am reminded again of how much fun the BotM is when we all do it together. And...
I organized my craft room!!! I'm so proud! Please, forgive my show-offyness. My self-discipline is obviously low today, as you will see if you keep reading.
Look how pretty my fabric looks now that they are all organized and color grouped...
And look at my two scrap buckets...heaped with fabrics that need a home....
All this organizing has convinced me that I'd like to start a new project. Cause I obviously don't have enough UFOs. However, I gotta keep it simple, so that I will still have time to finish my other projects...and have a life too.
I'm thinking of a simple child's quilt...9 twelve-inch blocks each with an easy 9-patch design like Churn Dash and the Friendship Star.
Would anyone like to join in?
Are these blocks too simple?
Would we want to mix it up with a hard and then an easy block?
Since none of the kiddos in my family need a quilt (my mom is a skilled and prolific quilter), I was thinking that I would make this for the Linus Project. And that way I can make a girly quilt, which I don't get to do since everyone I know has boys. Though truthfully, I have enough fabric to do a boy's and a girl's quilt. Of course, kiddos in the family need quilts first, but if you don't have any of those, would any of you like to join me in a Linus Project challenge?
I would be happy to organize the blocks if we want to stay with the 9-patch designs. However, another idea would be to have each participant choose a block. Then it really would be a sampler quilt.
So please comment and tell me what you think and if you're interested. If not, I will just go back to my UFOs. Hmmm...maybe I should make an alien-themed quilt....
I love seeing your finished quilts! I am reminded again of how much fun the BotM is when we all do it together. And...
I organized my craft room!!! I'm so proud! Please, forgive my show-offyness. My self-discipline is obviously low today, as you will see if you keep reading.
Look how pretty my fabric looks now that they are all organized and color grouped...
And look at my two scrap buckets...heaped with fabrics that need a home....
All this organizing has convinced me that I'd like to start a new project. Cause I obviously don't have enough UFOs. However, I gotta keep it simple, so that I will still have time to finish my other projects...and have a life too.
I'm thinking of a simple child's quilt...9 twelve-inch blocks each with an easy 9-patch design like Churn Dash and the Friendship Star.
Would anyone like to join in?
Are these blocks too simple?
Would we want to mix it up with a hard and then an easy block?
Since none of the kiddos in my family need a quilt (my mom is a skilled and prolific quilter), I was thinking that I would make this for the Linus Project. And that way I can make a girly quilt, which I don't get to do since everyone I know has boys. Though truthfully, I have enough fabric to do a boy's and a girl's quilt. Of course, kiddos in the family need quilts first, but if you don't have any of those, would any of you like to join me in a Linus Project challenge?
I would be happy to organize the blocks if we want to stay with the 9-patch designs. However, another idea would be to have each participant choose a block. Then it really would be a sampler quilt.
So please comment and tell me what you think and if you're interested. If not, I will just go back to my UFOs. Hmmm...maybe I should make an alien-themed quilt....
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Simple is good sometimes.
Love the idea of doing them for charity and doing a smaller quilt this time around.
I agree, simple is good, both in terms of colour and pattern. Those patterns are classics. Although watch out for directional patterns, sometimes you will get half of them pointing one way and half pointing the other way! Mind you, I've a feeling the main reason that happened with the 2010 Birthday Block swap was because there was an error in the instructions which wasn't spotted in advance.
Just in case anyone else is a hand-quilter, you'll need to remind them that charities such as Project Linus usually insist on machine-sewn quilts, and I think there may be a few other points to adhere to in terms of quality.
I've nearly finished my 2010 set, by the way, and will be posting photos soon. The quilt is done, the matching cushion is done, I'm just on the wall hanging now.
However, I would prefer blocks that could be done traditional piecing OR paper-pieced. I'm much faster with the paper-piecing, it's just so much easier for me. If at least half the blocks had the option to paper-piece, that would be enough of an incentive for me to join in... although were you suggesting this as a swap or just a quilt-a-long? I don't know if I'm up to another swap at the same time as the birthday blocks.
I was thinking a quilt-a-long. I don't know if I could create paper-pieced directions. I tried to do something like that from scratch, and it wasn't an experience I would repeat. Where do you find paper pieced patterns?
Quilt a long would be good. Especially if they were 12" blocks. Maybe even choose 4 total blocks, and you could do a multiple of those 4 to get the size quilt you wanted, saw 3 of each for a baby quilt, 4 of each for a lap throw, etc...
ETA: Ack. I didn't see the other post. Ignore my question. :)
Edited at 2012-04-04 11:34 pm (UTC)
(Also, did you mean to post this here or in the block of the month group??)