Rachel’s put together this super cute siggy block tutorial. Lots of photos to help you along, it’s so easy.

She’s also organizing a modern siggy block swap. Better hurry though, she’s limiting registration to 100.

P.S. Pat Sloan’s also organizing a SweetHearts ROCK! Swap.

Below is my finished quilt for the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap. The centre part is a kaleidoscope block kit from The Quilted Corner that I received at Quilt Market.

I created the border using Brenda Henning’s Triangulations. The 1/4 square triangles were easy, but I messed up the corners and had to rip them out a few times after the outer border was on. Lesson learned = draft out what you’re doing first.

I had a lot of fun creating this mini quilt and trying new techniques. I quite liked making the kaleidoscope block from the pre-cut, it was super easy. I’d used Brenda’s Triangulations for another project and love it… very quick and easy and no messing around with bias edges.

Here’s the gorgeous creation I received from Anabela from Portugal. I love it and hung it up earlier today. It’s hanging in a little corner right outside the bathroom door, so I’m sure to see it several times a day.

Anabela also sent me these other goodies: purple pin cushion which is perfect size to live on my ironing board, purple magnet, already hanging on my fridge, a gorgeous fabric postcard, with a lovely message, a postcard of Lisboa and a sticker. Thank you Anabela, you’ve spoiled me rotten!

Ati from Norway also sent me a gorgeous fabric postcard as a thank you for hosting the swap. Thanks Ati, it’s beautiful and hangs in my sewing area for inspiration.

We all had so much fun with the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap, I just had to organize another one.

Join the fun and participate In the Good Ol’ Summertime Mini Quilt Swap. Head on over to read the guidelines and then register to participate. Here’s the list of participants.

Registration closes July 6, 2009 and I’ll send out partner information by July 10, 2009. The deadline to mail your mini quilt is September 21, 2009.

Looking for inspiration, check out the Flickr group from the spring swap.

Please don’t email me to register, instead use the registration form provided.

If you’d like, here’s the code to use the swap graphic on your blog.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s wonderful creations.

I’ve been wonderful to see all of the gorgeous creations coming to life for the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap. The participants have done an amazing job.

To answer a couple of questions: Yes, there will be another summer-themed swap. Registration will begin June 23rd, with a mail date of September 21st. I’m also working on details for another swap to begin in August, something a little different. Stay tuned.

I’ve changed the final mail date for the Spring Blooms swap to Monday, June 22, 2009 as the 21st is a Sunday.

Please don’t forget to send your partner a thank you email when you receive their mini quilt. Several people have emailed me to ask if their quilt had been received. If you need an email address, just let me know.

I started working on my Spring Blooms Mini Quilt last night. At Quilt Market, I picked up this kaleidoscope block kit from The Quilted Corner. The pieces were all prepared, all I had to do was put it together. It took about an hour to make.

It finishes at 12″ and I’d like to make it a bit bigger. I’m thinking a 1/2″ black border, followed by 1.5″ peach border. Trying to decide if I should make the peach border 2″ and then bind in black, or leave it at 1.5″ and add a black border of 2″ and then bind in peach.

Suggestions?

By: Pat Sloan

It’s Fun, it’s fast, and sometimes a tad wicked…. it’s Death By Quilting (DBQ) and it’s on the internet now! I decided we ‘obsessed’ quilters need a fun place to play quilt games. Like Swaps, One on One trades and I developed my own ultimate EXTREME game of ‘Death By Quilting’. Kind of like ‘Death by Chocolate’ only better!

The games are played at my DBQ website and forum. The site has the games outlined, start dates and even a blog were I post game results, winners and general game info.

So what IS an extreme quilt game and how does it work? The short version is that it’s a game where everyone starts the same day and the ultimate goal is to ‘knock out’ your opponents. Each person makes a project. When you finished your project you mail it to your ‘Target’. When you target RECEIVES the project in the mail, your target is then ‘dead’ or ‘knocked out of the game’.

IF your target has not already mailed THEIR project, than it is sent to the person who ‘knocked them out of the game’ to finish it. This is the EXTREME part and it’s SUPER fun!

Because of the mailing time we are grouping games by Country so there is no delay of a package coming or going to another country.

Right now we have the “Cabana Boy” EXTREME Quilt Challenge in progress. So you can come and watch it to see how it works! This is a US based game.

I am collecting names for quilters who want to play in other countries. It would be awesome to have games going on all over the world! If you want to get your name on the list for a game in YOUR country… go to this site and enter your name in your country contact list. If your country is not there email me.

Here is where you can read more…

http://www.DeathByQuilting.com/

Each game has directions …. I hope to see you there!

The table runner is the Extreme Game Number 1 project made by Cindy in TN
The tea cup is from the Mad Hatter’s Tea party both blocks made by me