Time For Another Quilt Square Swap!
- At April 29, 2014
- By Kelly
- In Quilts, Swaps
- 1
We had a floral swap and a dot swap in April. Now it is time for a black and white swap!
Here is how it works:
1. Sign up!
2. Send in your deposit, which pays for shipping back to you.
3. Send me one yard of new, unwashed, uncut quilter’s cotton fabric for each spot you sign up for.
4. I will cut each yard into 30 6.5″ squares with my Accuquilt Studio cutter.
5. Each person will get back one set of 30 different squares for each yard sent in. (Unless two people send the same fabrics, then you might get doubles.)
Dates:
Now! – Sign up (link) in the forums
5/12 – Deposit Due
5/22 – Fabrics Due (This is the date I should have them by, so do not wait until this date to ship them!)
5/27 – Fabrics Ship Back
Fabric details:
* New, unwashed, uncut quilter’s cotton fabrics
* Standard fabric width
* Black and White ONLY
* No novelty, seasonal, religious, characters, holiday prints
Fabric Examples:
Go sign up!
Kelly
Hosting a Quilt Square Swap!
- At April 09, 2014
- By Kelly
- In Quilts, Swaps
- 11
I just finished hosting a quilt square swap. If you haven’t participated in one before, here’s how it works.
Each swap has 30 spots in it. Each participant signs up for one or more spots. For each spot, one yard of fabric is sent in. For each yard, 30 different 6.5″ squares are returned, including one from the yard sent in by the participant.
In the past, each participant has sent in their squares already cut. For this swap, participants sent in uncut fabric and I ran it through my Accuquilt Studio cutter to make the squares.
This worked really well. However, there were a couple things I didn’t consider.
1) Fabric sent through the mail needs to be ironed before it can be cut into squares.
2) I can cut one yard of fabric pretty quickly to make 30 squares. However, doing this 30 times takes a while!
While ironing, cutting and sorting, I played through an entire season of Mad Men on Netflix and made my teen sit through Sneakers!
In this case, two swaps ran at the same time to make shipping costs more economical for participants. So, those piles each contain 900 squares. 1800 squares total from 60 yards of fabric.
Once cut, the fabrics are sorted into piles containing one of each print. Here are the dots:
Then I stacked them just to get them out of the way so there was room to pack them!
Once sorted and packed by destination, they just need postage!
One waiting for an address, but the rest are ready to ship! I will drop them off at the post office since I try not to leave big piles of mail for the mail carrier without giving him advance warning.
I am looking forward to seeing what all these squares become!
Happy Sewing!
Kelly
Dots or Spots? Time for a Quilt Square Swap!
- At March 18, 2014
- By Kelly
- In Quilts, Swaps
- 1
How it works:
Each swapper sends in one yard of dots fabric for each spot they sign up for.
Fabric should be a solid color background with dots. Big dots, little dots, red dots, white dots, purple dots, dots, dots, dots!
Each swapper gets back 30 6.5″ squares for each yard of fabric they send in.
Sign up is open in the forums, deposits are due March 25th and fabric is due April 4th.
Happy Swapping!
Kelly
Photo credit: gina pina on flickr, licensed by Creative Commons
Doll Clothes Swap signups are open!
- At October 03, 2013
- By Kelly
- In Sewing For The Kids, Swaps
- 0
These girls need clothes!
The doll clothes swap is my favorite swap. Signups are currently open for both the American Girl 18″ size doll clothes and the smaller Bitty Baby 15″ size doll clothes.
More information is available in the forums – here!
Signups are open through October 8th, so make sure to pop in to the forums before then and get signed up for this swap. Packages must be received by the sorter (me!) by November 16th so they can be swapped and sent back on the 18th. This should leave plenty of time for holiday gifting.
Check it out and come join in the swappy fun!
Happy Sewing,
Kelly
ps – Just to be safe, I’ll tell you that this swap is not endorsed by nor in any way affiliated with American Girl, Mattel or Pleasant Company. All American Girl marks are trademarks of American Girl.
Signup for the Winter Doll Quilt Swap!
- At January 24, 2013
- By Kelly
- In Quilts, Swaps
- 0
Remember this post about the fall doll quilt swap?
It’s time for the 2013 Winter Doll Quilt Swap!
Signup in the forum – here by February 1st. This swap is open to everyone, and a great way to see if you like swapping!
Confused or full of ideas? You can share ideas and get clarity by posting in this thread in the forum.
Mail your package by March 1st.
Wait for your new quilt to arrive!
For inspiration, a couple more from the Fall Swap:
Dina’s quilt:
Ruth Ann’s paper pieced leaves:
Lorraine’s doll quilt made with “Bella” by Lotta Jansdotter in the Poppy colorway:
Happy Sewing and Swapping!
Kelly