Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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The Common Thread
Twelve quilters from eleven different states come together to sew in a virtual quilting bee.
How it Works
- Each Quilter is assigned a month
- That quilter picks out their fabric, purchases it, cuts it into smaller portions and sends it to the 12 other quilters
- They also include directions to each of the 12 other quilters as to what they would like the blocks to be like
- The 12 quilters do the stitching
- The finished blocks get mailed back to the quilter of that month
- The quilter then assembles their blocks into a finsihed quilt
- The process starts again!
3 comments:
i am so excited about this quilt! every time someone posts another snippet or another piece comes in the mail i'm even more convinced that doing this in a scrap-busting bee is definitely the best way to build this style. unless, of course, you happen to already own tons of little strips of different fabrics. then i suppose you could make a nice one by yourself. but what fun is that?
it definitely uses lots of scraps...i could use a good scrap clean out! lovely choices, rebekah!
I love this quilt and I have tons of strips that i was thinking of turning over to my almost 8-year-old. She is expressing interest in quilting. I'm not sure i'm thrilled about teaching her to sew on my machine.
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