Doll Quilt Swap #50 ! October 2013 Sign up here!
 

Doll Quilt Swap #50 – OUR GOLDEN SWAP!

Theme: THE GOLDEN FLICKER OF CANDLES

The simple golden flicker of a candle flame represents so much to so many. Birthdays,
anniversaries, remembering loved ones, and holiday traditions all have one thing in
common, Candles! SO.... that being said, Candle(s) will be our theme for this month. You can use this as your Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa swap. Please let your partner know if you have a preference (next month's theme will be your choice so you can do more holiday if you want)


Everyone is welcome to join us no matter what your skill level may be.Making and sharing doll quilts offers a wonderful opportunity to try new techniques, use up scraps in your stash – or an excuse to buy new fabric – and it’s a great way to make new quilty friends.

Here are the details.I know they are long and boring, but please read them. Really!
As always, rules for this swap also agree with the general guidelines for all Quilt Board Swaps – Read here
http://www.quiltingboard.com/member-swaps-round-row-robins-f11/rules-swaps-similar-activities-updated-8-december-2010-a-t20154.html


SIGN UP: Easy As 1-2-3 –4-5

1. To join the fun, justsend me a PM no later than NOON (EST) on September 30,2013
2. Please let me know whether you are able to swap internationallyas
   we have a few members who are outside the USA.
3. You will not be able to sign up if you have any outstanding quilts from
   previous months – except for the current month.
4. Let me know you have read the guidelines and make sure your QB mailbox
   isn’t full.
5. Help YOUR HOSTESS KEEP TRACK:When you mail off your quilt, please send me a PM. Also send one when you receive a quilt you’re your partner. This will help me keep track and to ensure that everyone receives a quilt.

Partner Assignment: Partners will be assigned on October 1st. Bookmark this thread for partner assignment – or find your partner at our Group Home herehttp://www.quiltingboard.com/groups/...group-g14.html

Mailing Deadline: You must have your quilt in the mail no later than October 31, 2013. If you do not think you can meet that deadline, you might want to wait a month or two until your schedule frees up and you don’t feel pressured.

DOLL QUILT SWAP GUIDELINES

SIZE: Doll quilts can be between 12”x12” to 24”x24” or any size or shape in between. If your finished quilt measures 24" x 26", or 11" x 13" it's fine. No worries or excessive rules for this swap.

MATERIALS: Most participants use cotton, but you can use any other natural fiber like wool, linen or silk.

EMBELLISHMENTS: Let your creativity rule. Add beads, buttons, ribbon, lace, rickrack, or whatever if you feel like it. Or add nothing at all. It’s up to you.

CONSTRUCTION: Pick your technique. Doll quilts may be pieced, appliquéd, wholecloth, quilted by hand or quilted by machine. All quilts should have binding.

LABEL: Please add a label or sign your quilt on the back with your name and the date. It is a wonderful record of your work and years from now, it will help your partner remember who made this magnificent work of art! If your quilt is reversible and you don’t want to sign it, please include a card or attach a removable tag with your Quilting Board name or real name if different.

MANNERS: Don’t for get to thank your partner. A simple post on the thread for the month is terrific, but a PM is nicer still. Please leave feedback for your partner.

HELP YOUR HOSTESS KEEP TRACK: When you mail off your quilt, please send me a PM. Also send one when you receive a quilt you’re your partner. This will help me keep track and to ensure that everyone receives a quilt.

PHOTOS: At the Quilting Board we love photos! A big part of the doll quilt fun is seeing what everyone has created, but as with most things in life, there is a little etiquette to follow. Usually the receiver will post a photo, but not everyone has a camera, so please photograph your quilt before you send it just in case. Don’t post a photo until your partner receives your quilt so the surprise won’t be spoiled. If you cannot post a photo, please ask your partner to do so.

PARTNERS: Once sign up has ended, I will assign partners. I will try to pair you with someone you haven’t had as a swap partner previously. You will make a quilt for your partner and s/he will make one for you. Please PM your partner to share physical addresses. Do not post addresses on this thread. Although there is a theme and it is often sender’s choice, it is always nice to ask if your partner has any preferences.


COMMUNICATION: If something unexpected comes up and for any reason you cannot meet the deadline or need to drop out of the swap, please let me know as soon as you know. If you take the time to communicate any difficulties, I can make sure things work out favorably for you and your partner with no hard feelings as a result. If, however, you just disappear off the face of the earth, you will not be permitted to participate in future swaps until you make good on your commitment.

I'm in. Sending PM now.

I'm in this for this month. I will send PM right away.

I'm in sending pm now.

I'm in too, just pm'd my info. This sounds like so much fun, now I need to get my thinking cap on.

I'm in! Sent my PM...For your signup deadline...don't you mean NOON September 31 (not October 31)?;)

I sent in my info - a flicker of an idea is taking shape.

I'm joining for October, just sent PM. I don't even have a flicker of an idea yet.

I'm in for Doll Quilt Swap #51 for October -- Candles. I loved Sapphire_Rae's comment "I don't even have a flicker of an idea yet". Me either!

i am stumped. i was so excited and now i am flummoxed.

I hesitated a bit cause I couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel but what the heck, I'm in for October. PMing now. But my little quilt won't be connected to any holiday celebration so maybe there is another partner out there that feels the same as I do.

I love the idea of "light at the end of the tunnel!" lol

QUILTERS....... I didn't mean to make this hard at all. Please remember, sender always has choice of what to send. You do not have to follow the theme. IN FACT.... if y'all think I should change the them for this month I will be glad to! I don't want anyone to worry or struggle! THIS IS A FUN SWAP! Please let me know what y'all think!!!

As I signed up I was excited by this months theme - there is a flicker of an idea and there is always a flicker of hope that you will come up with some fabulous design that you can share with the rest of us. A flicker of light from the flame dancing to the beat from a slight breeze.

Awesome thought!

sometimes the struggle is part of the fun, so i wouldnt think you need to change the theme. the added challenge for me is that i have money for postage but not for extra fabric so i need to make this little guy out of my scraps/stash. i am waiting to sign up until i have a least a basic idea.

here are some generic ideas....

This morning I figured out what I am going to do. If what I am planning isn't something my swap partner will like, it's something I like and will enjoy keeping. If my partner wants something different, I will deal with that at that time. The way I see it, it's a win, win situation.

Jan

My life has gotten crazy, neither myself or mom aka LucyLou512 will not be able to participate for a few months. Mom will be having some surgery that will keep her down probably until the beginning of the year. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with for this theme.

Have a wonderful time swapping.

We will miss you and your mom! Praying all goes well for you both.

Been away for a while, but I am back and joining October. Can't wait.

I'm in.................this should be a challenge!

I see sunlight myself. that is the eternal candle in my head.. a ring of light .. ever look up and see like rings around it? very much like a candle. Thanks for all the ideas I am sure if one went to pinterest you could find a bunch more. the inspirations are everywhere and a grand use for left over scraps I think. if you have a bit of gold/yellow for the top the rest is easy if your doing a candle at all and the colors again.. if you stare at a candle the glowing ring of colors around it are right there for your enjoyment :) I swear I am not doing another dq. I swear it. I am working on things I have to finish.

I've got to sit this month out, way to many thing to do in October. I have a major convention with work and I have to do presentations. Oh joy! I'll be watching when all the great little quilts are posted and hope to join back up in November.

i am also going to sit this month out, after thinking about it, we just have too much going on for me to do a good job.

I should sit this one out but my imagination is already working !! Count me in. I love to blow out candles. Hugs

I think you all should play! don't run, don't hide.. embrace this challenge with vim and vigor. If you sign up I will sign up. there I said it.. I have other things to do too but this is so much fun and seeing the variety of things that are made is so much fun. I love the concept here because well you can interpret it your own way. Does a candle mean romance to you? candles flowers.. vino? lol.. have a glass of that btw and your ideas will just start jumping at you on paper! its true I have tried it! two glasses don't sew or drive but draw draw draw! the best part about sketching something is you can crumple it up after and well no one will see your art work. hum how about just doing a dq in the colors that to represent the light of a candle? like a graduating light colorwork? or.. if you truly don't like the theme you can work with your partner on your own agreed upon theme. This way you do not make a Christmas work for a person who does not celebrate this. but candles most of us light candles and that is non denominational for sure. its a candle. when do you light one? make a dq that represents that emotion of how you feel when you look at one.. I love to light them especially near the holidays. and sit at night and just enjoy the glow. I say you picked a great them Quiltingkrazy. fun fun fun!

I'm in, just sent you a PM Krazy. Have to think on this a bit, but I'll come up with something..

oh dont tease brat. you know you want in whether we are here or not. you have about 50 quilt ideas in your inspiring post.
i am taking my family and my parents to DC for a good chunk of October, in a mini van from WI. i just cant imagine getting it done on time.

I got one ...... how about what most of us do each day..... we .... "burn the candle at both ends" BAHAHAHA

I am in too. Thinking outside the box...could be very interesting to see how everyone interprets this theme. Thanks for making this swap interesting. Okay Brat you promised you'd sign up if more people signed up so come out quilters you know you want to....

I love this theme...but I am a tad confused (what's new)..So we will make what our partner wants, or we will make a quilt to do with this theme, and then send it as a "surprise" to the partner?
Kif
I "get" the share preferences...I just wasn't sure since some had said if they made what their partner didn't like, they would keep it and make something else...

I've had a flicker of an idea for my little quilt. I had a pattern picked out to do for the next LQS challenge and guess what - is has a candle or two on it SOOOOOOOO...... I am going to make two of the same pattern - one as my dolls quilt swap and the other as my challenge.... Mission Accomplished !!!! Well not exactly but from this flicker I hope to move on to a spark :)

Kiffie, if you make a Christmas candle say and your partner is not a Christmas celebrating person can you see how this might not work? so if you wait, ask your partner do you celebrate.. first before you use a specific holiday related candel then you are safe right? but if your making a rainbow background to a colorful candle then you wouldn't need to ask right. Or you say when you sign up you prefer to send something you both agree on (dolphins eating peanuts at a baseball game say) then you both do what you agree on. JUST SIGN UP for heavens sake girl. its fairly simple follow the theme and you go holiday make sure its the one your partner celebrates if you go just fun candles that burn at both ends say start sewing now. and if you want to make something else let quiltingkrazy know and she will hook you up with someone who wants to make something else too. SIMPLE truly is. me, I need to relight that candle all the darned time. maybe my candle with have no golden flame at all. oh no! wait you have to sign up first for me to worry about having to make one yet.. sign up its a simple PM I am in. tada!

isn't there a candle song out there? jack be nimble jack be quick jack jumped over the candlestick! oh wait I was thinking about "the candle in the wind" line think its Elton Johns tribute to Marilyn..what about the old Ebenezer scrooge movie where they walk around in their night gowns with a candle in their hand.. or perhaps the little Swedish girl with the wreath on her head with candles in it.. Lucia fest I think that is.. then there is..

Oh my gosh, Brat..you're killin' me here!... One teensy lil I'm a tad confused, and Brat turns into.....Kiffie!!! Auuugh... :shock:..LOL..gotta love our wonderful sense of humor, eh??!!
I'll give it lil more thinking...
K

...about the DQ swap..NOT our sense of humor...

sent you a pm, wow this month has flown by!! where did it go?

thanks so much qultingkrazy for what you said. I really appreciate that. Now need to go find candle fabric! I am going to have fun and not be stressed out.....