Here is a blurb straight from the website
https://www.letsquilttogether.com/sh...directmailmac:
What Is Mad Adders?
Mad Adders is a concept to create a wall quilt, primarily created using patchwork, in a round-robin fashion. The six individuals each provide a starter piece and each participant adds to it. The originator should not see their project until the reveal party. After the reveal party, the originator may then alter, change, or add to their quilt top and then finish it as desired. The size of the finished quilt is not limited, but would likely be no larger than 60” with most quilts finishing in the 36”-50” range.
Anyone want to come up with a great name for our QB (Quilting Board) RTMA (Ricky Tim's Mad Adders) group? We need a nickname if we do jump into the shenanigans. Counting me, there are four people willing to try this via PM. Two more needed f'sure. We can waitlist or team up folks if more want to jump in.
Big components to recognize if you are considering/able to do this:
- cutting up of your work is to be expected
- Mad Adders is a piecing project only (until you get yours back and then you can do what you like)
- this is new to all of us so don't spend a fortune getting new fabric -- great stash-shopping project!
- let's keep the final projects small as we will be shipping things around the country six times!
- we have to be able to laugh at ourselves as we learn from Ricky
- one one-month turnaround before it is time to ship to the next team member
- some may have to drop out before the end -- expect the unexpected -- no guilt allowed!
- take lots of pictures of your work along the way to document the progress -- maybe a thumb drive to send with the quilt in progress would be useful? Journey entries to pack with the quilt in progress too? We might as well share thoughts and jokes and recipes.
- in the end we can embellish and rework what we want to so we are going to end up with something amazing that we like or can incorporate into a bigger quilt as we please
- register by Oct 1 with Ricky Tims and class starts Oct 4
- Zoom meetings have been recommended for the group to chat while working -- but not showing what they are doing! (as per Ricky: Establish a team of six quilters who live remotely and meet using Zoom. With this scenario, each person will be required to mail totes at the appropriate time. Naturally, this method would require additional expense as the totes would be shipped once a month over the course of six months. The Reveal Party would be virtual.)
- REVEAL PARTY!!! (virtual)