Sometime within the next few months I'll be responsible for our quilt guild's monthly meeting. Usually we have some kind of a demo or a talk about a quilting related subject. I'd like to "get out of the box" and do something different. A game night comes to mind only I need help in figuring out games that I can relate to quilting. Bingo comes to mind (like "B-scissors" or "G-batiks") but I don't know how to come up with the numbers to be called so there aren't numerous winners for each game. Have any of you played a game that was, or could be, adapted to a quilting theme?
We've had two different games played at our guild that were hits.
We did Bingo but called it Quilto. No need to add an extra column though. Just make a grid of 5 x 5 on paper and label the center square "free".
Now, think something fun up for the rest of the squares. We did things like: someone who is left handed, someone whose favorite color is orange, someone who hand quilts, someone whose birthday is this month, and so on.
When people came in they got a Quilt-o card,a pen, and a slip of paper. They printed their name on the slip of paper and handed it back and we stuck it in a container.
Then they had to mingle and find people who fit one of those squares. Some of them fit several but they could only put their name in one square per card. So, I could sign the left handed thing on one persons card and the hand quilter thing on another persons card, but I couldn't put my name more than once on a card. Make sense?
Then we played and we pulled names out of the container. It was really fun. It got people talking to each other and to people they wouldn't normally talk to just to fill in those squares.
The other came was left, right, center. There are actually dice with these letters on it.
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Each table (we sat in tables of 8 people) got just one of the dice. Everyone brought 10 - 5" squares (though you could pick any number and any shape of fabric like 2 1/2" strips or bigger squares or whatever)
First person rolls the die. If "L" comes up they pass a fabric piece to the left, if "R" comes up they pass one right and if "C" comes up they put one in the center of the table.
You go around the table until there is only one person left with fabric. They get the pile plus all the fabric in the center.
Everyone got a pattern that used 5" squares. It was fun and took longer than expected so I wouldn't necessarily have people bring more than 10 of anything.
At my guild we played bingo but we had to make our own bingo cards with 2 in squares of fabric. The "cards" were then sewed together to make a bunch of quilts for the childrens charity that we support. I can't remember how the cards were arranged. I'll check and let you know if you'd like. We played with buttons that we brought for the occasion but there were extra buttons if you forgot to bring yours. The finished quilts were very scrappy but really fun for kids. Have fun. Donna in Bellevue
This is the response I got from my friend about Quilt Block Bingo. Hope this helps and it is a lot of fun. If you have any questions please ask and I'll try to answer. IQ is Issaquah Quilters and Eastside Baby Corner supplies baby items to mother's/families in need. Donna In Bellevue
Here are the instructions for making the block for Quilt Block Bingo. Tess Herlan started Quilt Block Bingo for IQ in 2009 and I organized it again in
2011. It was fun and we made quilts for Eastside Baby Corner both times from the 10 1/2 " squares. With enough squares you can get quite a few quilts. As far as drawing the names for calling, I went through and wrote down every possible combination using the colors and types of fabric and made little cards to draw from a basket. Not sure what Tess did. Then we had winners ?read back? their cards/block to be sure they had the appropriate called cards?.and later we just trusted and moved on quickly.
Bingo Game Card Instructions: Materials for 1 bingo ?card?, which is a 10 ½? quilt block: For each square in the block, choose fabric from one of the following categories: batik, floral, geometric, heart, leaf, metallic, holiday, novelty, paisley, plaid, solid, star, stripe, or 1930's print. Use a black print or solid for the center square. Each quilt block must include the following 2 ½? squares: 5 assorted yellow and orange, 5 assorted red, 5 assorted blue, 5 assorted green, 4 assorted pink and purple, 1 black square for the center.
To assemble the block: Please use ¼? seam allowances
Join 5 yellow and orange squares to make 1 row. In the same manner, make
1 red row, 1 blue row, and 1 green row.
Join 2 pink and 2 purple square to make two pink/purple pairs. Join one pink/purple pair to each side of the single black square to make the pink/purple row.
Join the rows, placing the pink/purple row in the center, to complete one Bing Game Card block.
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