Block Exchange

We will be having a block exchange inspired by the quilt  “Medallion Melody” by Lori Smith.  You do not have to make the quilt to exchange blocks.  Starting in June will be exchanging three different blocks in three months.   

You do not have to make this quilt to be in the exchange.

Please use good quality fabric.  We want these quilts to last.

There will be two color-way choices:

 1. Traditional colors with cream color backgrounds. Civil War Reproductions, Kansas Trouble, Kim Diehl type fabrics work well together.  These colors are more like the pattern. The background fabrics can be prints but no white fabric.

 2. Bright fabrics with white background fabrics or tone-on-tone white fabric  (think more of a modern look)

The Blocks

You can swap as many sets as you like.  Please put each set in a zip-lock type bag with your name and phone number written on it.  Blocks will be ready to pick up one week after the due date.  We will be mailing out the blocks at that same time.

June 16^th Nine Patch Blocks are due in the shop by 7pm (closing).  The blocks will be 3 inch finished. We will swap in groups of 20. Please put your blocks in a zip-lock type bag with your name and phone number written on it.

Here is how I made my Nine Patches:  a quarter yard of a background and a quarter yard of the dark fabric.   Cut the background into 4 strips

1-1/2 inches wide.  Cut 5 strips the darker fabric also 1-1/2 inches.

You will be sewing them into 3 strip sets.  One set will have light, dark, and then light strips sewn together.  The other two sets will be dark, light, dark sew together.

Press toward the darker fabric.

Then cut them into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Then sew them together alternating the strips sets.

You should be able to make at least 25 nine patches from these strip sets.  We are exchanging in groups for of 20.  You may exchange as many sets as you like.  Please put each set in a zip-lock type bag with your name on it and address or phone number.

If you are mailing in your blocks you will need to include a postage paid self addressed envelope or a check to cover the cost of postage.  Block will be ready to pick up or mailed out one week after the due date.

Other Blocks we will be exchanging:

July 12^th Pin-Wheels Blocks are due in the shop by 7pm (closing).

The blocks will be 3 inch finished.  We will swap in groups (10) pinwheel blocks. The fabrics need to be the same in each pinwheel.  Please do not have different half square triangles in the same pinwheels. Please put your blocks in a zip-lock type bag with your name and phone number written on it.

August 18^th Quarter Squares Triangles are due in the shop by 7pm (closing) the block will finish at 4 ¼ inches.  We will swap in groups of 20. Please put your blocks in a zip-lock type bag with your name and phone number written on it.

I will have more instructions for the other blocks later.

Alison