QuilterMomma

Like your introduction Francie. Now, you realize you are only a few hours from me. Been down in the "windsurfing" country and it is cool.
Well, better be thinking of cutting up my fabric and bagging it so I am ready. I saved all my baggies from last time so they are all ready.

QuilterMomma

Oh, bad me, LOVE THE ZEBRA QUILT!

Janice McC

The 2 month group, OPAL, has 15 members currently and the 3 month group, TOPAZ, has 20 members. I'm tired of typing 2 month group and 3 month group over and over hence the names early. Thank you to Billi for coming up with the names. She actually gave me about 20 but these were my favorites.

Everyone in Topaz will send 19 F8s and create 19 blocks for the others in Topaz.

So if we don't fill Opal, and I cannot believe we will, then everyone will be responsible for sending 14 F8s and making 14 blocks for the others in Opal unless a subset of the group wishes to double up. In that case we can have some make one and others make two. We'll work that out at the very beginning of next week right after sign-ups close.

Mona G

thanks for the update on numbers....I was just going to try an find the last email with the list, now I don't have to.

sewbizgirl

Janice, can you explain a bit how 'doubling up' works? Do those people send two for everyone and make two for everyone?

Even if that doesn't happen I suppose we can each make a few blocks for our quilts with our own fabric....

Janice McC

Nope, no emails until groups close

Lstew2212

I love, love, love the way the zebra print was used in the different blocks. Seeing this gives me a good direction to start at, especially with me being new to the boom.

Kassaundra

This was suppose to quote Lstew's last post. I think we all had a lot of fun w/ the zebra fabric last boom. I think some of the confirmed "in the box'ers" even left the box for a minute! lol lol lol

Janice McC

There are three ways to end up with more blocks other than making them for yourself:

1. Join both groups.

2. Double up, essentially making two blocks for the other members in the same group who also want more blocks. This is absolutely NOT a requirement. We did this in Boom 16's 2 month group, with just about 2/3 of the members doubling up and the remaining 1/3 making only a single block but we started out as a small group. It worked out fine. The thing is that if too many people want to double up, then it can cause a number of problems including the need for more fabric and tighter shipping containers. If it looks to become too burdensome on my end, I will not hesitate to pull the double up option.

3. Arrange side swaps. Side swaps are private swaps between individual members, are NOT my responsibility. Any side swaps must be done outside of this forum. To be blunt, if there are issues with side swaps, it's not my problem. I've got my hands full.

This is one of the reasons I didn't want anyone to send fabric in advance. Until the swap closes Sunday night, I won't know the count. And as I said, if this double up idea becomes unwieldy with too many people wanting to do it, I'll just call a halt to it and everyone can make a single block and arrange their own side swaps.

Hope that helps.

Janice McC

Try clicking the "reply with quote" button a second time. Sometimes that works for me.