Re:Deck the Halls!!!

• Re:Deck the Halls!!! - 2008-07-08 09:51:38-04
  Joyce you are working so hard to get us all motivated, in the Noodle Swap, it was great, a lot of work for you ladies receiving and forwarding on.
  Maybe time to move on, then get back to Noodles, or fat qts.
  I think the Ornament swap went very well, great excitment of postie dropping an evelope with the lovely stamps through the letter box. At the moment we still get daily postal deliveries here in U K.
  I am just going to float an idea, plant a seed.
  I have not done any quilt as you go, mean to try it.
  Could we all make a block of say Crazy Patch with scraps, Log Cabin, design to be decided, using scraps no expense, in certain colours, then we would only have to add sashings etc.
  I have planted the seed of an idea, not all seeds grow.
  Summer here in UK, rain, cold, more rain forecast with flooding. So I will be working on my Dresden Plate quilt with Floral Noodles, with blue background, tell myself that is the sky.
  Byeee Jo
  

Re:Deck the Halls!!!

• Re:Deck the Halls!!! - 2008-07-08 10:22:33-04
  Idea growing, hows about, a crazy patch
  log cabin, block of Christmas Fabric.
  

Re:Deck the Halls!!!

• Re:Deck the Halls!!! - 2008-07-07 13:58:37-04
  I have been thinking on the same lines as cobrajetjohn about the Noodle Shuffles. I know my budget is a lot less these days.
  We could downsize the number in a year to 2 as suggested. Christmas is always fun though, so perhaps 3 one always being Christmas.
  I would also like to swap squares again like we did with the Christmas Ornament swap, that was so much fun and we learnt how to paper piece in the bargain. Perhaps you have ideas about something else along those lines.
  I have been swapping Fat 1/4's on an embroidery website, swapping 2 fat quarters with another member. (you can sign up to swap with however many you like) I swapped with 3 ladies straight out of my stash so did not go out and spend on that. You can enclose a post card from your area and some put in little surprises like cottons and buttons etc.
  Swapping is such fun, but as you say budget matters. Plus it seems we have all had a busy 12 months and still have to do something with the Noodles we have collected so far.
  
  Let us know what you would like to do, I am happy to help with organising Block swap or Fat 1/4's. No postage from Country to Country as in Noodle Shuffle, you organise to post your things direct to swap partner yourself.
  Cheers Joyce
  
  Forgot to wish you all a lovely summer. I forgot you have a life, unlike me stuck inside because finally it is raining (like it used to) don't know how long it will last, but hope it is falling into dam's and rivers somewhere.Post edited by: JHPym, at: 2008/07/07 19:03
  

Re:Deck the Halls!!!

• Re:Deck the Halls!!! - 2008-07-07 10:39:02-04
  Joyce thank you for all your work with the Noodle Shuffles.
  We have all had such fun, in sending and receiving them. Now to make the quilts.
  Amazed only 8 in July swop, especially Christmas Fabric.
  Maybe Pat has a point, 2 Noodle Shuffles a year,is the way to go.
  Come on ladies Joyce needs your input and comments/ideas.
  

Re:Deck the Halls!!!

• Re:Deck the Halls!!! - 2008-07-07 07:33:35-04
  Don't be discouraged. Got till 15th right? And people in Canada and US on summer holidays so might not get to it right away. Here school just finished June 26th then everyone heads out for 2 weeks somewhere for holidays.
  
  If it is getting too hard to get people to sign up then maybe next year we should just do 2, one spring and one fall. With the price of fabric, postage, and our general expenses (gasoline) all up maybe it is just not a necessity
  
  Maybe we could have a fat quarter auction some time, the ones interested could send in a fat quarter, and then we could just have an auction, or draw or something, just something different.