EASTER SWAP! Closed.

[MuseAndSew]

Beautiful tulips Kathy! I’m feeling Spring early this year! It was 52 degrees in Utah yesterday.
I went on a mini hike up the mountains and there sure were a lot of . Hopefully no Chocolate for them. Can’t blame them for liking the chocolate.

Hope you all have a happy valentines Day!

[Marilynsgrammy]

I have put together 8 blocks. Some are just short of 12.5 inches. I'm going to trim them up and put a white border around them.

Right now they can't see or smell but that will be fixed soon

[WeSignificant]

Here is my cross. It's pretty easy.

[Marilynsgrammy]

I love your cross Valerie, especially the purple drape. It's perfect.

[purrfect-lady]

Valerie, your cross block is really great! The drape is purrfect. Love it!!

[gershwin64]

Valerie, I love your cross block!
Tina

[MuseAndSew]

Beautiful cross Valerie!

[purrfect-lady]

I don't think we've ever had an Easter swap before - or at least not in my memory. So here it is! Sign ups are open now through Sunday, Feb 20th. Deadline to have blocks to me is Saturday, April 30th. That gives you about 10+ weeks to make your blocks. Blocks should be a generous 12-1/2". (If they measure 12-1/4", please fix them before mailing.) Backgrounds can be any PASTEL of your choice from white, cream, yellow, lavender, pink, blue, green, etc. They can be solid or TOT or even a tiny, print. Please pre-wash your fabrics. No muslin. Your blocks can be pieced, appliqued, or paper-pieced. No machine embroidery unless it's just to embellish your block. You may embellish to your heart's content with anything you wish. Ideas are endless! All those cute baby animals! eggs, bonnets, baskets. Cross, sunrise, lilies, chocolate bunnies, jelly beans. Anything that says Easter to you. (Just not general spring. The spring swap was last year.) I would like for blocks to not be repeated if possible, so if your heart is set on doing a baby chick, sign up early and get your dibs in! If more than one person wants to make - say, a baby chick - then if those chicks are significantly different, it's OK. Make one block for each person that is participating. Final number will be determined after sign-up deadline, Feb 20th. I've decided to not limit us to just 20 for this swap so we'll take as many people as want to play. Second blocks are fine, too, if anyone wishes to make one.

When I was little the Easter Bunny always brought us child-sized garden tools - rake, shovel, and hoe. And for even more fun we were "allowed" to hoe the weeds in the garden Easter afternoon! How special was that?!

As in every contract there is fine print. And if you sign up, this is a contract and you are expected to follow through.

1. PLEASE make your blocks the correct size. Check them!
2. please save your tracking number when you mail in case your blocks arrive a day or two late.
3. include $8.55 for return postage.
4. Please, please, PLEASE do not sign up and then disappear until the last day! Keep in touch! Please don't be "that person". . .

I will probably update this as I think of more details, but for now I wanted to just get this posted so you all can start thinking and perusing your patterns. Questions gladly answered!

Now, let's "hop" to it!

(can you believe it? some of us still have tinsel lurking in our carpet and now we're talking Easter!

BEVERLY - chocolate bunny
TINA R - Easter Egg
KATHY R - Tulips
MARY Z - baby duck swimming in water
CHRISS - bunny
MARY Q - Easter basket
VALERIE - cross

[TeresaK]

Well I don’t have tinsel to pick up but I do have a living room that a tornado went through to put the Bay Window in.

Life around here in California City has been topsy and turvy coming and going and sleeping alot because the Dr added a thyroid med and changed the dosage on the other one but then I lost 15lbs and Everything went sideways.

Needless to say I don’t know that I will be able to join and make the blocks and do everything else I need to do.
I’m so sorry. I really would love to but after writing everything down I just have to much on my plate. I love all your blocks and I know that I will be a FUN quilt.

[WeSignificant]

OMG! I just sewed the center of the drape wrong on 9 blocks! Gotta recut and resew! Taking a break, blocks are in time out.