March Sign up for Rhonda's Quilt Block Swap
 

Hi everyone!! Time to sign up again or for the first time if you are just joining us!!


Sign up by March 4. Mail out by March 31st
Partners will be assigned on March 4

In this swap you will choose and make a 12 1/2" unfinished quilt block I designed.
Then once you have your partner you can discuss color choices and exchange addresses.
You will send your quilt block to your partner and she will send hers to you.

Please let me know when you mail your quilt block and when you receive your quilt block.
If you are not going to be able to follow through or will be late PLEASE let me know.

You will need a 2 1/2" template.
If you need one let me know and I will send you one for free.

Please use 100% cotton --prewashed or not is up to you.
Don't use borders to make it 12 1/2".

Please make sure to read the general rules that apply to all swaps here at the Quilting Board:


This swap is for all skill levels. If you feel you can't do one of my Quilt Blocks but you would like to try I will be happy to help. Just pm me and I will walk you through any parts you feel you need help with.


Come join the fun and get to know new people and enjoy exchanging with friends


Find my Designs here:

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.

For the Star Point and Wings blocks please use these instead 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


DESIGNS:

Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Boston Blocks
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Combo Blocks
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Kansas Dugout Designs
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Drunkard's Path
My HST Designs
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Star Point Designs
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Wings Blocks

Second Sampler Quilt Along
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tags/bl...by+rhonda.html
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My website --
http://www.bitsnpiecesworkshop.com
My Blog --
http://calicodreamsforever.blogspot.com/
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You can also use the designs in any of my EBooks or my Simple Steps Patterns

Please make sure to read the general rules that apply to all swaps here at the Quilting Board:

This swap is for all skill levels. If you feel you can't do one of my Quilt Blocks but you would like to try I will be happy to help. Just pm me and I will walk you through any parts you feel you need help with.


Come join the fun and get to know new people and enjoy exchanging with friends

Our line begins here!

1.Cheryl Rearick
2.Stitchengramie
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Our line begins here!

1.Cheryl Rearick
2.Stitchengramie
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Ok, ok, ok Cheryl, you twisted my arm. I'm not going to be as fast because I am working on far to many different projects, and then I just signed up at Ancestry.com, so am spending many hours on that, which is fun. So Rhonda, add me this month again. Changing my colors because my teal colors are one of the many things I'm working on. It's ready for me to sash and quilt. I'm also learning FMQ. So I guess one more block won't kill me. And ofcourse Rhonda, you know I love your blocks.

LOL She can be persuasive and persistant Huh Katie? :o Thanks Cheryl!! Way to go! :thumbup:

Glad to have you back in the fold Katie my girl!! You don't have worry about being on time in sending this one out. Most of us understand a long list of to dos! I am just now working on Maggie's for this month. But mine will be in the mail soon!

As long as everyone communicates with their partner and all are fine with their arrangements time wise I am fine with it. Just don't want anyone to not fulfill their part of the swap.

Please remember everyone to let me or your partner know if you can't finish your quilt block.

I know Katie has had it happen that her partner didn't follow through so if anyone has a problem please please let us know so we can make other arrangements.

We all know life happens and that is ok. What isn't ok is not letting us know.

Hope everyone enjoys this swap!!

Our line begins here!

1.Cheryl Rearick
2.Stitchengramie
3.JuanitaBean
4.klgreene
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I want to play again.....sign me up!

Our line begins here! Okay Miss Rita here you are on the list now!

1.Cheryl Rearick
2.Stitchengramie
3.JuanitaBean
4.klgreene
5.Podunk Princess
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Please add me to the mix sewfaster

Okay Miss Rita here you are on the list now!

Please welcome sewfaster to our group!

1.Cheryl Rearick
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3.JuanitaBean
4.klgreene
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Thanks for joining us sewfaster! Do you need the free templates or do you already have them? If you need them send me a pm with your postal address please!

and one more joins the party!

1.Cheryl Rearick
2.Stitchengramie
3.JuanitaBean
4.klgreene
5.Podunk Princess
6.sewfaster
7.sgardner
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Aha! I see my name. Why does it take me a while to find the next swap posting to add to my notifications? Maybe it's just my brain getting muddled.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone does, as usual. Eye candy.

WAHOO Katie girl, soooooo glad I will be seening your smiling face again. :) :) :) and here I tought you were ignoring (sp) me hahaha.... By the way I am also in Ancestry.com, been there since 1994, just a year or two ago huh? If can be of help give a yell.... HUGS to ya

Yes Cheryl, can you do it all for me, it's interferring with my quilting. LOL But learning a lot.

Aren't you the funny girl :) :) :) However hugs to you really glad to see your smile.

prayerfully Rhonda is OK, lots of storms in the mid states and I think hers as well, your in my prayers Rhonda girl. :)

thanks for the prayers Cheryl but we are ok. We did have a thunderstorm a couple of nights ago but nothing more than we are used to. We are supposed to get about an inch of snow tomarrow and then be sunny and warmer the rest of the week. We are supposed to get up to 66 on Tues!! Normal for this time of year is in the 20s or 30s. Lots of wind around here but that is March. There was some storming yesterday? but it was all east of us and we didn't get it

Not sure where to post this. Most of the blocks are from Rhonda's block swap, and are Rhonda's blocks. There is one that isn't Rhonda's block but this was her first swap and didn't realize they were supposed to be Rhonda's blocks. If you don't see your block and you swaped with me, don't worry it's the one I'm working on now. I got a couple blocks that were beatuiful in the browns and blues, so this will be the one I work on this time.

Katie,

The blocks that I made for you fit right in with the other blocks.

They fit in very well. Which is why I waited, I knew it would, thanks.

Katie, That is beautiful... You will for sure enjoy it much. :) :)

That is just so beautiful. My daughter saw it and now wants one- she's a big fan of teals, too!

So, make her one. lol

Love it Katie. Teals were not one of my favorites but it is growing on me!

Oh, trust me, I've already started researching teal fabrics.

Can't wait to see it Shelley!

Who is my block swap partner for March? I would like to get the block made.

Mary, your block for last month was sent, please let me know when you receive it :) hugs.... happy quilting

Have March partners been posted?

sorry here is it is- Hope you all enjoy this month!

Cheryl - Stitchengramie

Klgreene- Juanita Bean

Podunk Princess - Rhonda

sgardner- sewfaster

hello mary, are you colors the same as Feb. ?

Yes they are Cheryl. Are yours the same?

Lots of pressure this month.....making one of Rhonda's blocks for Rhonda!

Hi Rhonda,

I tried to send you a PM but got a message that your box is full and you are unable to accept new messages until some of your saved messages were cleared --- what's up with that--I didn't know we had limits for that kind of thing!

Anyway, I need your input for colors/prints you prefer for the block I'm making you this month and your mailing address.

Thanks....Rita

Oh yeah, she'll tear you apart. LOL just kidding. I think you could do the worst job in the world and Rhonda is just so sweet she'd never say anything. But yep, I'm sure you are nervous....don't be!!!!

well you can't encourage if you tear someone down! I do like to offer some constructive criticism if the person is open to it. but I am not perfect and make many many mistakes!!! I can always point out my mistakes! LOL

My first priority is that the item in question was made by my friend and I love holding something that I know that person was holding not long ago.

I did ask myself if I could accept a less than terrific quilt block or doll quilt etc in a swap and if the answer was no then I had no business getting into one.

But I love the differant way people look at color and design and I enjoy seeing how other people do things. I learn from them too. I don't look for perfection in anyone but myself! We are our own worst critics.

Besides the reason I did this swap was to encourage people to try my methods. I don't know about you all but my first efforts at anything are never anything but a mess! Until I learn to do it right after many tries. So view this as a trial effort Rita!! it's all about learning not perfection!! I am just thrilled to have you join us!!

how true Rhonda, I made about 4 ( SAME ) blocks in a row, just so I knew how to make that one. It got better each time. lol :) I have difficulty skipping around. Silly huh? When ( I ) work the sae block I start finding little short cuts that help me each time and get faster an faster with more precission. Now I know it's time to branch out a little, YUK, :) :) However I know I can do it because Rhonda's directions are so awesome, JUST AS SHE IS. Most of all I so appreciate her gentle spirit. Your so right Katie girl, Rhonda loves all, with the prefects and inprefections because she sees past...... HUGS to the girls making a block this month. Lets have FUN. :) :) :) :) YEA !!!!!

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm going to try a new block this month just to challenge myself. Looking forward to seeing everyone's blocks this month.

I don't have any quilter friends here at home so when I discovered some of these shortcuts there was noone to share them with! I was so excited when I figured out the Drunkard's Path one but noone to tell! So I so appreciate all the quilters who are willing to try my methods and see the benefits of the shortcuts.

It is great to be able to do something but it is so much more when you can share what you discovered!!

I appreciate all of you for playing along in this swap! I don't care about perfection but I do care about getting the ideas of this process across to people. it is all about the way you put the block together not how perfect it is. Having said that accuracy is your friend if you take the time to trim a corner or straighten a seam your quilt block will look a lot better. A stitch in time saves nine! LOL I hate to rip so I do get picky on myself but I also have those moments when it is - oh well I am not going to redo that again! or that is just going to have to do even tho it isn't quite right.

A little bit off isn't the end of the world and I always say how do people know you didn't mean to do it that way?? LOL