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Idle Hands: “My contribution to a mini quilt swap”
A Quilters guild that I had been a member of before I moved, had a large number of quilters who live all across the United States. During one of our meetings I found out that we had a sign up sheet for a mini quilt swap. I decided to participate and see what I could come up with. It was then that I realized that it was a secret swap, in which you had no contact with your recipient until you were finished and it was received. We were all given the Instagram name of our partner and had to go off of clues they left you or just come up with your own idea.
Everyone was asked to fill out a survey of likes and dislikes, then we were all given someones survey at random a few days later. When it came to my quilt swap partner, her information said that she was a big fan of bright colors and disliked the use of a batiks. If you aren’t sure what a batik is, take a look here at the buck quilt I had made for my husband. A batik is a type of fabric that is used frequently when putting together landscape or photo quilts since it gives an illusion of solid colors without being solid. Something in which my recipient.. hates!
After some brain storming I decided that it would be pretty cool to make a mini quilt of her two dogs, but when I went back to my reference papers and saw that she doesn’t like batiks or dark colors such as Brown or black… that pretty much changed my entire plan.
I didn’t give up, I was determined to make this work.
While searching for fabrics this also proved to be an extremely fun challenge since I was incorporating everything she liked and disregarding the ‘norm’ when it came to picture quilts.
I finished up my project and sent it to her by the deadline, and I’m happy to say that she was ecstatic!
Not long after that I received one in the mail for myself! It was sent by a woman in another state who went by my survey that said “I like to fish, and hate neon colors” hahahhaha
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Love the Dogs! Fabulous work.
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Thank you very much it was alot of fun! Ive been working on some trout as well now
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I liked that you showed your progress. Makes me want to give it a try.
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You should give it a try and just have fun with it
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