Swap Plan, Swappers please read...

Did not mean to cause a problem. I don't have my book yet and not made up my mind what I am going to use as fabric. Am also going to start a BOM at the local quilt shop. Something about a Farmer's Daughter. There is 111 blocks. So with doing two BOM maybe three might just go with the Civil War fabric I have saved for my Dear Jane that has been really slow. Like 1 block a year.

jill marie,   you didn't cause a problem, it just started some good dialogue.   gini

No problem, just trying to figure out how to best work this out for everyone!  I think if we can get a clue as to what the four of you are planning to do, we can come up with a workable solution...

Kay

Kay

I think it would be nice if I had a clue of what I was doing too..lol

so,  kay doesn't have a clue, and neither does nana.  if i had a clue, i couldn't remember it.  that leaves jill  marie to bail us out.  : )   gini

gini

Maybe they should just call us the clueless trio.......

Hi guys.  I would do a swap but as I am not the best quilter I am not sure you would like how my blocks come out.  Also I am slow because of work and school committments and would not want to hold anyone up.  It is a nice idea of swapping and maybe on the next one I will.

jill-marie, i just noticed your avatar.  did you change it recently?  it's pretty cute.   igni

I have had that avatar all along. I got my book today. Now off to the quilt shop tomorrow and look at fabrics to get an idea what I am going to use. I like Batiks but they blend together too much. There are really some beautiful quilts in the book. We have until the 27th so plenty of time to get things ready.

jill-marie,  i think batiks would work fine, and it would be striking. you would just need to make sure there is enough difference in color between the pieces.   gini

I received my book today too so I am good to go.  I am looking at all the patterns and I quite like them but I have never appliqued or paper pieced before so this should be a learning experience.

I am doing batiks also.  Never have done batiks before so it is a learning experience for me.

I am making sure there is a definite color difference.

Well, clueless me, but I am still not sure how we are going to do the swap thing...

 

There is another avatar like mine but the green monster has a martini in her hand instead of a cup of coffee. The ones of us that are exchanging blocks need to get each others snail address some how. I don't know if we can post our e-mail address here or not. I get to go to the quilt shop tomorrow. I had one of the girls cut me a fq(around this part we call them fluffy quarters)and bring it to the guild meeting for me for the drawing. I gave her the money and she was not at work today. So will go in tomorrow and look around at the batiks. The only thing about batiks, I am told, is that they do not applique very easy. All that process they go through and the thread count, I think, they are not needle friendly. But I was told that after I had done some applique with batik. I had no trouble.

jill-marie,   i have appliqued with batiques before.   i use a very thin  straw needle and haven't had any problems.   i do try to use a smaller thread that matches moe closely , the thread weight of the fabric.  i think it hides the stitches better if you use a thread similar to the size of the thread in your fabric.   but, i choose  to match color before anything else.  gini