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03-09-2012, 05:34 AM

#11

tropit

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Join Date: Sep 2011

Location: Mendocino Coast, CA

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I'd like to join in. I just posted something about making a quilt for a logger friend of mine, (who actually looks like a gnome...LOL.) This quilt will be the perfect gift for him! Count me in.

~ Cindy

03-09-2012, 05:54 AM

#12

raedar63

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Ohio

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This is going to be fun to watch I will think about this one . I love trees and fairies and mushrooms and all that they entail!

03-09-2012, 06:25 AM

#13

athenagwis

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Join Date: Feb 2010

Location: New England

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Quote:

Originally Posted by moonrise

Yep, sign me up for at least 4 sets.

(Do I need to "officially" PM you?)

Thanks for the info on the background color. I like how the quilt looks in the first post. It's very pretty with the white background.

I've got some trees in the works. Sneaky peeky below.

All set!!

I like the white background too, but I have found myself pleasantly surprised with swaps that I end up loving something I didn't think I would before, so I try to leave my swaps as wide open with possibilities as possible.

Y'all are just way more creative than me!!

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Originally Posted by tropit

All set!! happy to have you on board!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by raedar63

This is going to be fun to watch I will think about this one . I love trees and fairies and mushrooms and all that they entail!

I do hope you'll come play with us!! I am very excited for this theme!!

Cheers!
Rachel

03-09-2012, 06:32 AM

#14

raedar63

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Just a thought here about the white background. This seems to be taking on a magical theme to me with some of the examples posted . That means to me to blend some night blocks here and there after all isn't that when the gnomes and fairies come out to play

03-09-2012, 07:21 AM

#15

athenagwis

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Quote:

Originally Posted by raedar63

I think all backgrounds can work so long as the maker loves them!!

This is why I set no limit. If there is a good combo of both, I might even put the light on one side of the quilt and the other on the back and have a night/day quilt!!

Don't be afraid to make blocks you love, I am sure we will all find a way to make them all work together for wonderful quilts!!

Rachel

03-09-2012, 07:45 AM

#16

bookworm

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: California

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Embellishments ok to add for this one?

03-09-2012, 07:58 AM

#17

athenagwis

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bookworm

Embellishments ok to add for this one?

I don't mind them myself, but I know some people might want to remove them for the quilting and then add them back on later, so perhaps just make sure they are on their own strings so people can do that if they so choose.

Rachel

03-09-2012, 02:40 PM

#18

ssnare

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Join Date: Apr 2010

Location: Arma, Kansas

Posts: 3,079

I want to join, but, I do not know how many sets I will get done. I have some fabric I did a swap with that are the cutest gnomes from Sweden. I also have cross stitched flower fairies that are on adida fabric, that I might incorporate into this type of quilt. I have been looking at pictures of fairy houses that I am thinking about making for my blocks for this swap. I have not decided for sure.

03-09-2012, 05:15 PM

#19

marytoddliz

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: Lebanon, Oregon

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I want to join also I would like to do 4 sets. I have a daughter and DIL that both love gnomes and fairies~ add a little forest to it and I will have two happy girls on my hands!

I have some wonderful "forest`y" fabric I will start looking now.