***Update: Please everyone put my email address on your ‘safe’ list and check your spam folders to see if you’ve missed anything. Once I get everyone’s contact info, I’ll be sending group emails instead of posting information to this blog. Please start checking your email regularly if you don’t already.
Alright, after all the dust has settled, here are the final 24 we have participating. Yep, it went up to 24. That’ll make the quilt top 4 across and 6 down. If you don’t want to do it anymore now that there are 24 instead of 20, let me know.
I’m working on getting a map posted that shows a dot for everywhere there’s a participant. It’s pretty neat. Once I get all the towns I can finish it. So far we have USA, UK, The Netherlands, Australia, and Brazil represented. Yay!
These names are not in the final order. This is just who I have down as participating. If you don’t see your name and you were expecting to be in it, let me know. If you see your name and you don’t want to participate, let me know.
- Me: TN, USA
- Lady_Belle: TN, USA (No blog)
- Sudi-Laura : MA, USA
- Katy : Wakefield, UK
- Maria: Tisbury, UK
- Anita W.: The Netherlands
- FlossyBossy: UK
- Courtney: TX, USA
- Andrea: Cornwall, UK
- Lorena: CA, USA
- Kate: UK
- Paloma: MI, USA
- Debby Wolff: CA, USA (No blog)
- Kendall Lloyd: VA, USA
- Jane Remus: IL, USA
- Cindra: IN, USA
- Aimee: NH, USA
- Nann: CA, USA
- Anita A.: FL, USA
- Tanya: Australia
- Caroll: MI, USA
- Glaucia: Brazil
- Dionne Gordon: WA, USA
- Cathy: WA, USA
So, please email me the following asap: (My email is in the sidebar if you don’t have it)
- Whatever name you want to go by (just make sure the postman recognizes it)
- Whatever address you want your blocks mailed to
- The absolute best and quickest way(s) I can get ahold of you
- I will never post your personal info on the blog. However, I will probably send out some group emails to all the participants. If there is certain personal info that you don’t want public within this group, that’s totally okay…just let me know.
Once I get everyone’s details, I’ll start putting them in the final ‘loop’ order, so you’ll know who you’re mailing too. Remember, the above list is not the final order. However, now that you know how many are in, you can start making your first ‘starter’ block , however you want and whatever size you want all your blocks to be. But don’t mail it yet.
One thing that’s been suggested, which will be really neat is that once you start making your blocks for the others’ quilts, somehow add on to it where you’re from, or you name and where you’re from, whatever info you’d like. So we can see where all it’s been. You can embroider it on, write it on with a fabric marker, whatever you’d like. If you want to put your own information on your ‘starter’ block, go for it. That’s up to you. If you choose not to permanently put that information on it, you’ll still need to put it on a piece of paper and safety pin it to your block. I think we’ll be able to keep a better track of who’s is where if your info is on there. Make sense?
Also, once I get your details, I’ll change your name above to a link to your blog, if you have one, so everyone can start getting to know everyone else.
I need one or two volunteers from the UK to mail internationally. And does anyone know how to make a button? We really need a button for everyone to put up on their blogs. That’ll make us official 🙂
Keep and eye on this blog and your emails for reminders, comments, changes, etc.
*Update: There have been a few people that have said they prefer to receive all their blocks loose, rather than receive a stitched together top, so they can add sashing, arrange the order or whatever, at the end. That’s not really the idea I had when I started this, but I also don’t want to be the swap nazi and not let people have a little freedom. I want everyone to be happy with their final product. So…if you don’t want people to stitch the blocks as they make them, attach a note to your starter block (with a safety pin so it doesn’t fall off), that says your name, that it’s your starter block, and to please leave the blocks loose. We have to have that information on your starter block so that when it becomes a pile of blocks, we’ll know who the pile ultimately belongs to. Sound fair?*
About the button! whenever some group has a button, I cant figure out how in the WORLD how to put it in my side bar, so I just save the picture and link it to the group page. (That miiiggghhhttt just be on blogger, not sure) So you could just use a picture and type on it, or make a little design with the goodies on microsoft publisher online. If you cant understand what i just said… just ignore it! I have a feeling that I just wrote this in kendall-language! 🙂
Got it. I’ll send you a e-mail in by noon.
Is that missing person me? I HOPE so, because I was HOPING to participate. I think somehow our emails are getting lost in cyberspace. 😦
Cheers,
Dionne
I just shot you an email.
Question about stitching the blocks together. Obviously the first row will be easy to put together. But the subsequent rows really need to be completed with all the blocks before they can be attached to the first row, right? So (assuming a 4 block row configuration) will the 5th – 7th people just start attaching their blocks in a new row and send that to the 8th person, who will complete the 2nd row and then stitch the 2nd row to the 1st row? Sorry to be a pain – I’m just trying to visualize how it will be put together.
A button would be nice…just give info on adding to a blog!
What if we just hand basted the blocks together…mainly so that one wouldn’t get misplaced? I was wondering about sashing myself.
Won’t we all have to send overseas at some point? Just confused about needing 2 people from UK to mail internationally???
sorry to be late with details – am emailing you now!!
If you need any fill ins, I’d love to take part.
It is too late to get into this ? It sounds like fun!
Micki