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June I Spy Swap with Food Jar Twist:
Signups are open until June 15
Swaps need to be in my hands by June 30

It's time to start putting together another I Spy swap for June. Owlvamp is still taking a rest from the swap, so I will be helping her out again this time. Please pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the new cutting and packaging method. It is different than all I Spy swaps previously.

Our theme for the June "twist" (side swap) is food, like you would see in a jar quilt. Several have expressed interest in making jar quilts and/or picnic quilts, so I thought we'd try out the food theme. Anything you would find in a canning jar is fair game! Even fireflies.... Try to find raw food rather than packaged, as you would see on the shelf in a mason jar. Cukes, potatoes, tomatoes, berries... are all great!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take your time cutting and be sure you have correct 5" squares. I will not be taking any squares out of their bags this time, to check the cuts. Last swap I unfortunately had to return bundles of squares that were cut too small or not fussy cut, and I spent hours trimming ones that were cut too big. This time, your name will be on every one of your bags and if your squares are found to be cut wrong, you will be expected to send replacements to whoever received the bad ones, in order to stay in good standing as an I Spy swapper. Who wants to deal with that hassle and extra expense?? No one, so please take the time to cut well and check your squares before you put them in those bags. Lets have all good squares this time.

NEW CUTTING/PACKAGING METHOD:
We will now be sending 10 DIFFERENT fabrics in each bag we swap. All your bags can have the same mixture in them, or different, but you cannot repeat fabrics in any one bag. We will be swapping bag for bag, so there must be 10 different fabrics in each bag. Please put your board name and state on every bag you are swapping.

You may swap a max of 16 bags, because you will get 8 squares per width of fabric, so two of those will give you 16. If you take 10 fabrics and cut two 5" strips x WOF from each, then cross cut into 5" squares, you will have your 16 bags' worth. Or, if you cut only one 5" strip x WOF from each, you will get enough squares to swap 8 bags. If your prints require fussy cutting, you may not get 8 squares per WOF... please be aware of that.

The twists will be a max of 8 bags of 10 different squares.... So you need 10 different foodie fabrics to give you 10 different squares per bag, same as the regular swap.

THE USUAL 'STUFF':
1. Please cut your charms before joining.

2. Try and find new prints you have not sent before or seen in the swap, if at all possible. We all like new stuff! Also, you may not use the same prints in the twist as you used in the regular swap. Twist fabrics should be different from the regular swap fabrics. Send only 100% cotton quilting fabric. Please do not send thin or loosely woven fabrics. If it has to be starched to be acceptable, it's probably not a good candidate for this swap. Please select prints that would be acceptable in a child's quilt. No flowers, lines, stars, geometrics. We need recognizable objects. Send what you would like to receive!

3. THEN, pm me (Sewbizgirl) and tell me you want to join and how many bags you intend to swap in the regular swap and in the twist. The twist is optional. I also need your real name and address. I will respond to you with my mailing address for you to mail your swaps to me.

4. Put all your swap baggies in one big ziplock with your name and mailing address, as well as your board name. That will keep them together in your package and if it happens to get torn open in shipment, your address will be there for the P.O. to return to you. Speaking of "torn open"... those paper flat rate envelopes are the pits. They tear so easily, especially with lumpy contents in them. Do yourself a favor and use something better-- like the Tyvek envelopes or padded flat rate envelopes. You have to order the latter from the post office online, in packages of 10, but they are free. If you do it NOW, you will have your envelopes in time to mail.

5. Postage: I will print and mail your postage online and ship in the padded flat rate envelope. There is no need to send a return address label this time. The online shipping is discounted to $5.70, so that's how much cash you need to enclose in your package. If anyone is nervous about sending cash in the mail, mention that in your pm to me an I will give you my Paypal addy to pay me with, instead.

Remember to send in what you would like to receive back.
Let’s have tons of fun,and of course you have to follow all the basic rules, found here.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-20154-1.htm