travelinggramma

Any cotton fabric, any design. One of the things I love about these Booms is I get to play with fabric that I may not normally play with. It gets me to try new ideas and designs. If you tell us what you plan to use the blocks for, it even makes it more personal and interesting.

Annaquilts

thank you all for posting pictures of all your blocks together. Just looking through a previous swap I am really drawn to jaba, billi and moonrise fabrics where they send many different F8s, floral, Asian or 1930, and tied it together that way. I am a big time scrappy girl so that is why those probably also appeal to me. I have been wanting to make a floral quilt and my Asian fabric, scraps I received from others, is just sitting on the shelf looking pretty. Did moonrise post a picture of all her Asian blocks together? I would love to see that picture.

jaba's blocks with florals.

jclinganrey

My block is in there!!! Yeah! So glad you like everything.

Kassaundra

This fabric reminds me a lot of BettyBee's from the last swap, take a look at how hers turned out, it worked up well.

Kassaundra

I see mine in there, woo hoo!

Annaquilts

OK I send a pm to sign up for either 1 or 2 groups. I sure hope my buddy quiltermomma will join too.

I am really thinking of floral fabrics and maybe floral and Asian if I end up in 2 groups. For the same token I might change my mind and do something totally different.

moonwork42029

This is a blurb I posted for the last Boom to maybe help some newbies out with their questions and concerns:

Welcome l! On this Boomerang Swap, we send the fabric, you select the block. The sender can request certain colors to go with their fabrics and the receiver tries to comply with the request. For example, I am using a variety of fabric with "peach/orange sherbet" in it. I will request that only "white or white on white" fabrics be used with it - would prefer no other prints or colors. I will also put a note that I like "star blocks" as a suggestion but by no means is that a requirement...just a suggestion in case you get quilter's mind boggle.

A lot of us will also post our fabric selection here so others can get a jump start on ideas of what they want to do with it.

You can also make the same style block for everyone...last time I had fell in love with "Jacob's Ladder" and made almost all of the blocks I sent back like that. You don't have to pick a different block for each person.

One of the most important things is to measure carefully and have your blocks be 12.5" when you send them back to the hostess.

The fabric you send out needs to be 11 x 18 ... please no other sizes but you can always fudge and send a little extra if you wish.

Be sure you send a note also of what you'd like to see with your fabrics...are you making a child's quilt, manly quilt, color's you'd like or ones you'd like to avoid ...notes along that line.

Welcome to the boom....ask as many questions as you need to (trust me, someone else has it in their mind too).

You can click on the link at the bottom of my post and you'll see the blocks I made last time as well as the blocks I received back.

Can't wait for this one to get going. I'll do the slow group again

I don't know what I'll use for this Boom yet but you hopefully get the idea of what's going on ....

Janice McC

That's it, Moonwork...you are hired! Thank you. Moonwork did highlight some important items. Anyone with questions, don't hesitate to ask because as I said, I'll answer or veteran boomers will. They're often the fastest responders! (Moonwork, no I did not get your email but I've already added you to the swap. Let me know which group/s you want and if any contact info has changed. Thank you!)

TravelingGramma's cream low volume blocks were fabulous. Other than TG, I was the only one to see them all together and they really were something. It was quite unlike any other fabric at the time and I remember thinking when I saw the FAT eighths, the finished quilt might be a bit boring. Well...was I wrong! It was placid, not boring. Absolutely loved it.

Moonwork's orange blocks were another great surprise to me. I've never been a fan of orange but her fabric seemed to hit just the right tone for me. Think of those pops, creamscicles (sp?) I think they were called. Seeing all the blocks together, well, it was beautiful!

I think it was BeaBeatty who had a Parisian inspired fabric. Not the same as what was posted earlier but a similar idea. Her blocks also turned out very well. Some rather unique blocks were made for her if I recall.

Newbies, you can send whatever fabric you like as long as it's 100 percent cotton and pre-washed and pressed. The fabric can be all the same for everyone or different for each person. Fabrics for each group can be the same or different. It's entirely up to you. Just be sure that if you have a vision in your head of your fabric used with certain colors, that you clearly express that in writing both here and attached to each and every FAT eighth. For example, you might want any color except purple to be used. Or perhaps you want only white. Please be clear if you mean solid white or would white on white be ok too. The clearer you can be, the better. Be careful about being too specific as that can backfire and make it difficult for others to find. Black is usually easy, white is easy, but a certain shade of teal might be tough. Plus, my idea of teal might not be the same as yours. We Boomers have to accept that a certain degree of variation from our vision is inevitable. But I do try to get members to follow the color requests as closely as possible but sometimes the requests are inadvertently overlooked. It happens.

Also, and this is a big one. The goal is a 12 1/2 inch (unfinished) block. In order to make blocks most usable, we've got to get as close as reasonably possible to that size. The easiest way to ensure that is to measure as you go and check the final block size before you package it up for shipping.

I cannot think of anything else right now. Keep asking questions. Keep in mind, I'll send an email with details, way too many details if you ask me, when sign-ups are done. Most of it will be old news by then - hopefully!

Thank you to everyone who has signed up so far! I'll post sign-up status this coming weekend so everyone will know where we are and who's signed up for what.

Later, Boomers!

Janice McC

Also, I've temporarily re-published Boom 12, Short and Sweet and Boom 13, Clover and Jade groups.

Boom 12: Short Sweet: http://boom12shortsweet.weebly.com/
Boom 13: http://boomerangswaps13.weebly.com/

I plan to bring all the pix I have together but it's a monumental job for me. I'll leave these up for a couple of weeks.

jaba

Annaquilts sent you a PM but it bounced right back.......your message box is full.
Didn't get my fabric cut today, hand a little sore after phyical therapy but will work on it tomorrow.