Boomerang Swap 15 - Sign Ups Open Until June 2 or ???
05-17-2015, 06:32 AM
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Possum Trot, KY
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Welcome Flowergurl! On this Boomerang Swap, we send the fabric, you select the block. The sender can request certain colors to go with their fabrics and the receiver tries to comply with the request. For example, I am using a variety of fabric with "peach/orange sherbet" in it. I will request that only "white or white on white" fabrics be used with it - would prefer no other prints or colors. I will also put a note that I like "star blocks" as a suggestion but by no means is that a requirement...just a suggestion in case you get quilter's mind boggle.
A lot of us will also post our fabric selection here so others can get a jump start on ideas of what they want to do with it.
You can also make the same style block for everyone...last time I had fell in love with "Jacob's Ladder" and made almost all of the blocks I sent back like that. You don't have to pick a different block for each person.
One of the most important things is to measure carefully and have your blocks be 12.5" when you send them back to the hostess.
The fabric you send out needs to be 11 x 18 ... please no other sizes but you can always fudge and send a little extra if you wish.
Be sure you send a note also of what you'd like to see with your fabrics...are you making a child's quilt, manly quilt, color's you'd like or ones you'd like to avoid ...notes along that line.
Welcome to the boom....ask as many questions as you need to (trust me, someone else has it in their mind too).
You can click on the link at the bottom of my post and you'll see the blocks I made last time as well as the blocks I received back.
Can't wait for this one to get going. I'll do the slow group again since summer is busy and I have a new granddaughter "baking" right now that should make her appearance around 4th of July.
A lot of us will also post our fabric selection here so others can get a jump start on ideas of what they want to do with it.
You can also make the same style block for everyone...last time I had fell in love with "Jacob's Ladder" and made almost all of the blocks I sent back like that. You don't have to pick a different block for each person.
One of the most important things is to measure carefully and have your blocks be 12.5" when you send them back to the hostess.
The fabric you send out needs to be 11 x 18 ... please no other sizes but you can always fudge and send a little extra if you wish.
Be sure you send a note also of what you'd like to see with your fabrics...are you making a child's quilt, manly quilt, color's you'd like or ones you'd like to avoid ...notes along that line.
Welcome to the boom....ask as many questions as you need to (trust me, someone else has it in their mind too).
You can click on the link at the bottom of my post and you'll see the blocks I made last time as well as the blocks I received back.
Can't wait for this one to get going. I'll do the slow group again since summer is busy and I have a new granddaughter "baking" right now that should make her appearance around 4th of July.
Last edited by moonwork42029; 05-17-2015 at 06:37 AM.
05-17-2015, 06:59 AM
#24
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Boonville, Missouri
Posts: 2,595
I almost missed the sign up link...kept looking for it on Boom 14s page and then it dawned on me to look on the main page! Hard decision on fabric this time. A friend loves green and Im not fond of it...have this fabric that I bought because I liked it but haven't used it in over a year....I don't want dark colors with it because its dark enough already..but cant decide if I should ask for only white or wow..colors don't come out good in pictures but it has dark green, browns, dark reds etc but I think those would make it "too"dark...Ill decide before sign ups close..I HOPE 
05-17-2015, 07:17 AM
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Possum Trot, KY
Posts: 3,843
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I am using a variety of fabric with "peach/orange sherbet" in it. I will request that only "white or white on white" fabrics be used with it - would prefer no other prints or colors. I will also put a note that I like "star blocks" as a suggestion but by no means is that a requirement...just a suggestion in case you get quilter's mind boggle.
I used this same fabric collection in the last Boom and decided I wanted to make a larger top so I'm needing more of the beautiful blocks from y'all.
I am using a variety of fabric with "peach/orange sherbet" in it. I will request that only "white or white on white" fabrics be used with it - would prefer no other prints or colors. I will also put a note that I like "star blocks" as a suggestion but by no means is that a requirement...just a suggestion in case you get quilter's mind boggle.
I used this same fabric collection in the last Boom and decided I wanted to make a larger top so I'm needing more of the beautiful blocks from y'all.
05-17-2015, 07:39 AM
#26
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Mn
Posts: 6,572
Lisa your sherbet colors are so light and refreshing.
flowergurl welcome, this is a ver fun swap
we made it through our first big storm of the season in our camper last night. Heard hail was coming so I was the first to get my car in the farmers huge tractor shed. After the storm we went through 3 years ago and I had $10,000 damage to my old car I tend to get over excited. By the time we got back to the camper most people had already left to go home. We live to far away to do that so we hunkered in till the sirens went off. You really don't want to be in 40 foot camping trailer in a tornado. We sat out the storm in the farmhouse with the remaining campers. Then this morning the winds were so bad I left when dh left to drive to Chicago. Driving through the wind and rain made me mighty happy to get home safe and sound.
this is one of the fabrics I am thinking of using, concerned the print might be to large
[ATTACH=CONFIG]519865[/ATTACH]
flowergurl welcome, this is a ver fun swap
we made it through our first big storm of the season in our camper last night. Heard hail was coming so I was the first to get my car in the farmers huge tractor shed. After the storm we went through 3 years ago and I had $10,000 damage to my old car I tend to get over excited. By the time we got back to the camper most people had already left to go home. We live to far away to do that so we hunkered in till the sirens went off. You really don't want to be in 40 foot camping trailer in a tornado. We sat out the storm in the farmhouse with the remaining campers. Then this morning the winds were so bad I left when dh left to drive to Chicago. Driving through the wind and rain made me mighty happy to get home safe and sound.
this is one of the fabrics I am thinking of using, concerned the print might be to large
[ATTACH=CONFIG]519865[/ATTACH]
05-17-2015, 08:29 AM
#27
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Possum Trot, KY
Posts: 3,843
Oh... I almost forgot.... I did run into this a couple times in the past....
The 11 x 18 fabric needs to be "fully usable" fabric ....
Please be sure to allow for the selvages because you can lose vital cutting abilities if the selvage is "part" of the 11" or 18".
If in doubt, trim off the selvage and then make your 11 x 18 cuts.
On some of my fabric this time, the edge will be slanted but there is no less than 11 x 18 ... I allowed for extra because who ever cut the fabric off the bolt did a wonderful "angle" cut and rather than waste that fabric by trimming it down to 18", I just included it.
The 11 x 18 fabric needs to be "fully usable" fabric ....
Please be sure to allow for the selvages because you can lose vital cutting abilities if the selvage is "part" of the 11" or 18".
If in doubt, trim off the selvage and then make your 11 x 18 cuts.
On some of my fabric this time, the edge will be slanted but there is no less than 11 x 18 ... I allowed for extra because who ever cut the fabric off the bolt did a wonderful "angle" cut and rather than waste that fabric by trimming it down to 18", I just included it.
Last edited by moonwork42029; 05-17-2015 at 08:32 AM.
05-17-2015, 08:50 AM
#28
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Rural Oklahoma
Posts: 5,374
Lisa your sherbet colors are so light and refreshing.
flowergurl welcome, this is a ver fun swap
we made it through our first big storm of the season in our camper last night. Heard hail was coming so I was the first to get my car in the farmers huge tractor shed. After the storm we went through 3 years ago and I had $10,000 damage to my old car I tend to get over excited. By the time we got back to the camper most people had already left to go home. We live to far away to do that so we hunkered in till the sirens went off. You really don't want to be in 40 foot camping trailer in a tornado. We sat out the storm in the farmhouse with the remaining campers. Then this morning the winds were so bad I left when dh left to drive to Chicago. Driving through the wind and rain made me mighty happy to get home safe and sound.
this is one of the fabrics I am thinking of using, concerned the print might be to large
[ATTACH=CONFIG]519865[/ATTACH]
flowergurl welcome, this is a ver fun swap
we made it through our first big storm of the season in our camper last night. Heard hail was coming so I was the first to get my car in the farmers huge tractor shed. After the storm we went through 3 years ago and I had $10,000 damage to my old car I tend to get over excited. By the time we got back to the camper most people had already left to go home. We live to far away to do that so we hunkered in till the sirens went off. You really don't want to be in 40 foot camping trailer in a tornado. We sat out the storm in the farmhouse with the remaining campers. Then this morning the winds were so bad I left when dh left to drive to Chicago. Driving through the wind and rain made me mighty happy to get home safe and sound.
this is one of the fabrics I am thinking of using, concerned the print might be to large
[ATTACH=CONFIG]519865[/ATTACH]
05-17-2015, 08:59 AM
#29
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Got you Bee. Am out of town until Sunday evening but I'll send you a confirmation email then or Monday.
05-17-2015, 08:59 AM
#30
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Rural Oklahoma
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I almost missed the sign up link...kept looking for it on Boom 14s page and then it dawned on me to look on the main page! Hard decision on fabric this time. A friend loves green and Im not fond of it...have this fabric that I bought because I liked it but haven't used it in over a year....I don't want dark colors with it because its dark enough already..but cant decide if I should ask for only white or wow..colors don't come out good in pictures but it has dark green, browns, dark reds etc but I think those would make it "too"dark...Ill decide before sign ups close..I HOPE
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