Good Wishes For Reese: January 2008

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Finished with the squares!

I finished piecing the actual squares about 5 minutes ago. Now I have to get out to buy the fabric for the sashing, etc. Anyone have any tips for sashing and putting the actual quilt together? This is my first quilt so yeah, newbie. I have 34 squares that are 8x8 in. a piece. If anyone has any tips for the size and layout, PLEASE let me know.

It's so cool that this is getting so close (in my mind) to being done. I can't wait!

How You Can Help

1)Pick an 8"x8" or larger square of fabric. It can be new, old, a piece of some clothes, whatever, but please make it 100%, PREWASHED, cotton fabric. Thanks.
2)Write down a wish, quote, song lyric, whatever (see blog for examples), on a piece of paper- preferably some kind of cardstock or other heavy paper. It can be any size, as fancy or simple as you want.
3)Glue a small piece of the fabric to the wish, so it can be matched at a later date with the larger square in the quilt.
4) Email me at xiii.the.black.cat.xiii@gmail.com for my address to mail it to.

Swaps are welcomed, just send me your address and info.

The wishes are going to be scrap booked into a book for Reese to look at. The squares are going to be made into a quilt. I'm going to make a big one (queen size maybe) and probably a smaller, more 2 year old size, quilt.

Any contributions -either donations or swaps- are very much appreciated.

We have squishes from...

Washington, USA
Arkansas, USA
Indiana, USA
Texas, USA
Michigan, USA
Georgia, USA
Ohio, USA
Arizona, USA
Utah, USA
Wisconsin, USA
Maryland, USA
California, USA
Virginia, USA
Oregon, USA
New York, USA
Florida, USA
Connecticut, USA
North Carolina, USA
Nevada, USA
New Hampshire, USA
Hawaii, USA
Colorado, USA
Alabama, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Illinois, USA
Pennsylvania, USA
Massachusetts, USA
Nebraska, USA
Oklahoma, USA
Puerto Rico

Quebec, Canada
British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, Australia
Tasmania, Australia
Japan
England

We have squishes from 26 states and Puerto Rico and D.C.

I'd really like to have squishes from all 50 states. The states we're missing are:
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, West Virginia, Iowa, Delaware, New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, Alaska, Rhode Island, Wyoming, and Kansas.

If you live in one of these states or know someone who does, and you or that person would like to donate a squish or swap squishes, please contact me!

Good Wishes For Reese

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Finished with the squares!

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

New Machine

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