A while back I mentioned that I will be hosting a swap for bird seed/bird house fabrics after the first of the year. We will be swapping twenty 8" x 10" squares of 2 fabrics per swapper:
1) something that looks like bird seed (pretty small scaled) 2) something that looks like a bird house (like wood, peeling paint) something for the "walls" of the bird house. (We'll provide our own roofing materials.)I will provide one or two basic paper-pieced patterns for the bird-feeder and bird house blocks.
Get some ideas here:
You will need at the most 1 yard of each. That allows for 20 swappers INCLUDING yourself -- I will cut it off at that point so you won't run short.
What I will ask is that as you find your fabrics -- if you can send me a digital pic (or email me with the manufacturer and fabric name -- I can probably find a pic on the web) I will post it like I did for the candy swap so we can work to eliminate duplicate fabrics. I think in that swap we only had one dupe -- but it even had a different background color -- so the way it will play on your quilt is quite different.
I will post the official entry for the swap early January. I will accept the first 20 (including anyone who emails me pictures between now and then -- you will already be "in"
-- so your fabric won't go to waste ... like it would! LOL).
So if you think you'll be interested ... start watching for fabrics.... If you find them and know for certain you want to participate... please let me know (and let me "see" the fabrics you've found) so I can post them so others won't duplicate the fabrics.
Please feel free to email me with questions. In January I will post all of the additional details of the swap -- mailing deadlines, addresses, etc. If you have any questions... please let me know. If you would like to TENTATIVELY sign up -- go ahead and email me privately now at grovesfam at comcast dot net and please put SWAP FOR THE BIRDS in the subject line (that way it will be certain NOT to end up in my spam folder).
Guess that's it for now. If you have questions, please post them here. I will repost this again in about 2 weeks. Then as Thanksgiving/December Holidays approach I won't post anything until the official swap post in January.
Keep an eye out for those seed and house fabrics!!!
Kate in MI