I sent 2 on April 2nd. One blue and one red. No acknowledgement as of today. I took 8 print outs and large addressed evnelopes to my ASG quilt group on April 1. Won't know until the May meeting if anyone sent one in... I hope there is some future posting about how many blocks they received and ultimately how many quilts they were able to complete. I have a theory on the brown ink request... it is just that a theory. About the time that the Baltimore Album Quilts came into vogue (1840's?) a permanent BROWN ink was invented and was used in the album quilts for sketches, names and signatures. Maybe BROWN ink is thereby "historically" quilter's "choice". Don't know but it's a thought.