Quilting block swaps Australia: 6 inch block group

How to JOIN quilting block swaps Australia

Hello and thank you for visiting. This is a community group for all Australian quilters to join or just follow. Membership is FREE and you are partnered each month and we make each other a 12 inch quilt block based on our preferences which we swap. (12.5 inches raw edge to raw edge) The emphasis of the group is on friendship and sharing. To find out more or register to join email me on quiltingblocks@hotmail.com This purpose of this blog is to chat and showcase blocks and quilts made by members, kind of like a show and tell . Yours in stitching, Sue

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Friday, February 18, 2011

NEW 6 INCH GROUP OFF AND RUNNING

Well I am pleased to say that I have had an enormous response to the 6 inch block group, it seems a lot of you agree that the smaller blocks will fit in better with scrappy quilts and can be added to borders or corners on quilts using the bigger blocks so there is a real need for them.

If you are interested in joining click on the side button of this block to the side to read how to join up. As of posting this I already have 6 members joined - one complete newby from the Netherlands so a big quilted hugs welcome to Anneke, and of course to all the other ladies that have joined as well. With the help of Crafty Pugs there will be a new button link to this blog, so if you have captured this one you will need to replace it when the new one it up and running,

If you have posted a comment on this blog about wishing to join, I still will need you to formalise this with an email giving me your block choice and colour choices so I can put the details on the data base.

The first group of swap partners will be emailed out in mid March 2011.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and I hope you get lots of sewing done, I certainly plan to.

Quilted Hugs

Sue x

Saturday, February 12, 2011

IDEA FOR A NEW SWAP GROUP

Hi Ladies, as most of you would know I have been running this group now for almost 12 months, then I introduced a Christmas swap and looked after that for a few months before Crafty Pugs offered to take over the reins. I then capped the membership of the group when it got to 50 members and Alex started up group 2 for all new and future members.

I have been having thoughts about a similar group making smaller 6 inch blocks per month, so we can make table runners, nursery quilts or busy quilts with lots more block in them or to mix and match the 12 inch blocks with 6 inch blocks in a quilt.

There is a poll on the side bar of this blog to vote on this idea and please comment below if you would be interested in this group. Membership would be open to all members of group one and group two as well as the Christmas group.

Personal invites to the new group will be sent out with the swap partners for March emails. But if you are not a member of group one please email me to register to sbelleli@bigpond.net.au

I look forward to your feedback on getting this one up and running.