Help! Need info about "Shoebox" quilts
Hi all...Our guild is thinking about doing a shoebox quilt (round robin type). Has anyone tried doing this in your guild? Info we have is: "A Shoebox Quilt. What is it? Well, it's sort of like a round robin. There are usually 12 participants. Each quilter picks a block pattern that they are going to piece. Each quilter selects a variety of fabrics and places them in a shoebox. Then the shoebox travels around the group--each month you get a new shoebox. Using the fabric inside, you make a quilt block from the block pattern you previously selected. You put the quilt block and the remainder of the fabric back inside the shoebox and pass it on. At the end of 12 months, each quilter gets their own shoebox back with 12 beautiful quilt blocks inside. Each quilter then selects a setting for their blocks and stitches up a beautiful quilt." This was the only real explanation we could get when googled. So, we have questions that someone may be able to answer.
How do we come up with yardage amounts & # of fabrics? I would imagine that each person would designate the fabric in their shoebox to be the background fabric. I think we will probably pick some kind of a theme.
I'm hoping there are some of you that have done this & can help....Thanks.