February Rhonda's Quilt Block Swap
 

Welcome to my Quilt Block Swap!!

Sign up by Feb 8th
Mail out by March 8th
Partners assigned - Feb 8th

All skill levels are welcome! Beginners can do these designs!

This swap is to show you how to make my Shortcut Blocks into Quilt Blocks!!
Choose a quilt block design from my links and then make that quilt block.
You will get a partner and you and your partner will exchange quilt blocks.

You need a 2 1/2" template.
If you don't have one let me know and I will send you one for free.

Use 100% cotton --prewashed or not is up to you.
Don't use borders to make it 12 1/2".
Pm me when you receive or mail out.

Please make sure to read the general rules that apply to all swaps here at the Quilting Board:
RULES FOR SWAPS AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES - Updated 8 December 2010


Directions for "Blocks"
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tags/bl...by+rhonda.html

After you learn to make the "Blocks" you need then you choose a Quilt Block
Then use the layout picture that is shown with the Quilt Block to see how to make your quilt block.

Star Point and Wings blocks- use these in place of the original directions
Rhonda's Wing Blocks Paper Template Tutorial
Rhonda's Updated Wings Block Paper Templates.
Rhonda's Paper Templates for Making the Star Point Block

Quilt Blocks you can choose from:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums17759.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums17760.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums17761.html


If you have one of my ebooks you can use any design in those ebooks.

Come join the fun and get to know new friends and enjoy exchanging beautiful quilt blocks.

Okay here is our sign up!!

welcome back to those who have been playing along!

1. josykats
2. queenof2802
3. sgardner
4. TwinRiverFarm
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Hello!! Already got my jumpstart for this month.

I would like to join

Okay here is our sign up!!

welcome back to those who have been playing along!
and Welcome to AlaskaAlice!

1. josykats
2. queenof2802
3. sgardner
4. TwinRiverFarm
5. AlaskaAlice
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Yeah! Welcome Alice

Welcome Alice. It's great getting more swappers You'll have fun. I know since I started I've learned so much and each month a new block from Rhonda teaches me a lot. I'm excited to participate in this month's exchange.

i would love to join and i do not have a template

Send me your postal address in a pm and I will send you one.

Okay here is our sign up!!

welcome back to those who have been playing along!
and Welcome to AlaskaAlice and lovngrandma!

1. josykats
2. queenof2802
3. sgardner
4. TwinRiverFarm
5. AlaskaAlice
6. lovngrandma
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Welcome new friends!!

Hope everyone is warm and snuggled down for the night. The Tennessee weather has been wild the last few days. Tornadoes two days in a row and it has started to snow tonight. I am ready for it. Several UFO's that need to be finished and new commitments to be started.

The weather has been weird for us all. We had about 8 inches of snow, then we had an ice storm- an inch of ice. A day or so of near the freezing mark (which allowed us the hard labor of breaking up all that ice on the driveways), then a 2 day snowstorm of 20 inches of more, and now it's above freezing during the day and making a heck of a soupy mess of the giant snowbanks. Nothing like sloshing through a half a foot of melted snow cone-watery stuff. And, it's refreezing at night. I am waiting for the stuff on the roof to come down in an avalanche, because that freezing rain layer is still up there on the roof, buried underneath those 20 inches. The avalanches in the mountains kills skiers and snowmobile riders- it's worse when it's the kids dying. Not that I want the tornadoes my eastern friends are getting, but I will definitely appreciate our calm weather for the next 4 days or so. I can sew without having to stop to shovel.

Stay warm. I plan on it here. Have to work 1/2 day tomorrow. Afterwards I HAVE to do the home blessing and clean this dusty house!! Then I may be able to play in the sewing corner. Several projects are screaming to be started and others are yelling to be fininshed!

Good morning!

We have been very quiet lately! Have the names been swapped for this month? I am ready to ship and want to send it this upcoming week.

I am soooo sorry! I was thinking I had already posted the partners! Whooops!

so here you go ladies!!

Josykats..............lovngrandma
queenof2802........AlaskaAlice
sgardner.............TwinRiverFarm

Here is the sign up thread for March! I would like to see more players! Hope you enjoy the swap!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/member-...ml#post5874461

So how is everyone doing? I need to get a count of who has mailed and received.
I'm by no means hurrying you. I just dont' want to lose track here! LOL

Josykats
lovngrandma
queenof2802
AlaskaAlice
sgardner
TwinRiverFarm

Have not done my block yet, hopefully this week. And I'm in for march!

I will be mailing on Friday. It is ready and waiting for me to ship, just have to wait to go to the PO don't have postage until then. I am in again for March. Headed over there now!

This is the block that I sent to AlaskaAlice.

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Queenof2802- It's cute!

I have my block done for TwinRiverFarm; hunting for my camera to take a pic so it can be mailed today!

Thanks, Shelley!!

Here's the block I made for Miriam:

It was almost an accident- the center was from a block that I never finished, and the edges were from another, and when I picked them up and laid them next to one another, well the colors fit and I liked very much the secondary design it make. I have no idea if this particular layout is in Rhonda's files or not, but I thought it was cute.

Oh, and please excuse the colors- it's not that yellow, and it's much straighter than it appears.

It looks great shelley!

very nice queen! I love the chickens!

I love it Shelley! I actually have 2 for you, one is done, the other getting finished today. I played aroiund with colors and while I use Rhonda's templates and methods, I rearranged things , so strickly speaking they may not match existing blocks. Rhonda, I have actually managed to wear out the 2 1/2" template in the past year! My favorite quilting tool.

I have done a lot of these swaps, so the color values are all over the place. Nothing really "matches" LOL

You know the reason I started this swap was to get people to try my methods. I wanted to share the shortcuts I had found and show people how much fun they were. I love it when people take my ideas and play off of them as that is how I developed these shortcuts in the first place. I saw something on Simply Quilts that sparked an idea and I tweaked it to come up with the methods I use today. So if you rearrange the pattern I am fine with that! We all see things differently. I just dont' want anyone to go and use someone else's patterns here. It would defeat the purpose of sharing my methods.