Tracy's April Blocks

Hi girls, it's been quiet on the CtoC Block party. How are you doing with those crazy April blocks? If anyone is having serious "quilters block" regarding these Story People characters, please don't feel bad about it. You can make me a block of postage stamps, or wonky star or anything your little heart desires. Any shape or size is just fine. I have several blocks that are exactly what I was hoping for and I think that improv blocks using the solids would be a perfect compliment the blocks that I have received.


Thanks!!
Tracy

I also started this as a post on flickr.

A message from Meg

Hi ladies! Anita and I have switched months! So I'll be doing June and she will be doing November. I just posted my inspiration mosaic to our flickr pool. Carissa, over at the Common Threads Bee, had a great idea for her month this spring, and I was so green with envy, I'm pulling a page from her book--literally! I'm a librarian, and a bookshelf quilt is a natural choice.

So, here's what we'll do.

I'm going to send everyone a FQ or so of the same background fabric, an ivory solid. What I'm asking you to do is make 12.5" (unfinished) tall bookshelves full of books made with your scraps for the books! Tall, short, fat, thin--use the mosaic for some inspiration. Look at your bookshelves at home, go to the library and the bookstore--all great places to get inspired for this one. You can make several narrow blocks, one big long block--go nuts. These should come together fairly quickly.

If you have no scraps, shame on you! Kidding! Seriously, if you're feeling that your scrap bin is too skimpy for this project, let me know and I will send along some of my own. My hope for this is to wind up with an array of books from all different fabrics, which I will then sash and border in dark brown "shelves".

Packages will be going out in the next day or so, so everyone should have their fabric by the beginning of next week.

Let me know if you have any questions--thanks, ladies!

Input needed!

Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

June is scheduled to be Anita's month but since she's had a hectic year and is still catching up on life, we need to take a vote for June.

Let me know which you prefer:
1. Meg is willing to switch with Anita and we stay on track
2. Everyone gets a catch-up month, we extend the bee an extra month (into January 2011) and Anita now has January as her month.

I am heading out to run some errands but I'll also send an email so please respond to either this post or the email.

Jennifer

Quilting to find a cure for cancer

Hi ladies! This isn't really related to the bee but I thought you might be interested in this...

I am raffling off two quilts as part of my efforts to raise $3500 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I am trying to help find a cure for blood cancers, and hopefully all cancers. We are *this close* to finding a cure for lymphoma and that cure could lead to a cure for all cancers.

More about this raffle and other details can be found here: http://craftyjennifer.blogspot.com/2010/05/chance-to-win-quilt-and-donate-to-great.html.

Both are lap quilt-sized, with the Land & Sea (blue & green) measuring approx 46" x 52" and the Raspberry Limeade (pink & green) measuring approx 42" x 60". Every $10 donated to this cause gets you 1 raffle entry, and each $50 gets you an additional entry. Example: donate $30, get 3 entries; donate $50, get 6 entries; and donate $100, get 12 entries. Winners for each quilt will be drawn at random August 1st.

Ellen’s blocks

I loved, loved this fabric, Ellen.  Hope you like them.  The one with the white border measures 12.5 x 12.5.  The other is 10 x 10.

Blocks for Ellen

I had fun working with these great fabrics, Ellen! Might have to pick up a few from that collection for myself. Hope these blocks are what you had in mind. I didn't have enough white to border both, hope you don't mind finishing that task. I'll drop them in the mail tomorrow. Enjoy!

FABRIC's here

Woot!

I can't wait to get started!

Fun, fun, fun! Ellen this is gonna be fun!