Ta da!
The first fabrics are here. Paper cranes, alligators (or crocodiles?) superheros and monsters (or aliens?) that look and feel beautiful. These fabrics aren’t cut yet– they were sent directly to me from Spoonflower after two international participants ordered them. Since I am one of those folks who can appreciate the pains of living somewhere other than the USA and wanting to participate… I offered to cut them and save a few legs of international shipping costs. That and I was nervous early on about finding 55 other people willing to participate in this crazy swap, so I was willing to put in the extra effort to make it work. Phew! Turned out to be no problem at all. Who knew there were so many crazy people in the world? Wait, don’t answer that. At least these folks are quilty-crazy, not violent-crazy… or purple-crazy or Twilight-crazy. Okay, maybe some of them.
I know it’s going to take a while and some patience for all of the 56 54 remaining sets of fabrics to get here. Which is sort of good, since my house is a crazy still-moving-in disaster. Our storage stuff came yesterday, and I’m sorting as quickly as I can so that when our stuff from the other side of the world arrives, we’ll have places to put THAT stuff when it clears customs, hopefully at the end of September.
When all of the stored stuff went into storage more than three years ago, we were much yuppie-r and had one kid that wasn’t a year old or walking yet. After three years of living overseas, having another kid and being a stay-at-home-mom… wow, how our household needs/likes have changed. All sorts of fragile/glass/delicate/topple-over-able things are on their way to Goodwill.
On the way home I’ll check the mailbox again. Just in case.
Allison says
I’m super excited. I have my spoon/fork/knife squares cut. I’ll work on my little trees this weekend and likely send them off on Monday. Thanks for organizing this … I’m so stoked!
Valerie says
These are adorable. I just sent my squares to you today! Thank you for doing this!
Anna says
such cute fabrics, just awesome! And oh how I look back at the days when I didn’t have kids or when they weren’t walking. I had a lot of free time that I know I didn’t use very wisely! :)
courtney says
So cute! I just sent you my squares tonight.
Ashley Renee says
The fabrics look even better in the photo than on the website!! I am so excited to get mine and start cutting! Should be any day now.
Care says
FANTASTIC! Those alligators are just KILLING me — I am in love!!
YAAAAY for being in your house!!! Good luck sorting through everything!
Holly @ Domestic Dork says
Yay! Thanks again for helping us international folks out! I’m so excited about this swap!
BJ_Mama says
I plan on cutting as soon as we get back from our camping weekend!!!! I’m SOOO Excited!
Tallis Ford says
Just wanted to share my “storage” story. After i finished 3rd grade, my family moved from Ohio to Guam, a US territory in the Pacific. It was a 2-year assignment and we put stuff in storage. Turns out we loved it there, extended 3 times and moved back for me to start 10th grade. You can imagine that 95% of my stuff that was kept in storage all those years was a blast to look through but no longer needed.
Heather, Neilson, Grace & Creighton says
my squares are cut, paired and going postal today :) i’m super excited.
ninjadesigns says
thank you SO much for helping us out with this! it’s so exciting to see the fabrics that i chose irl… well, picture of them irl… yay!
Marcie says
I am hoping to get my fabric by Monday so I can cut, cut, cut! The pic you posted is making me excited. I’ve never made a quilt before, this will be my first and what fun it will be. This is like a very awesome version of a chain letter!!! By the way, did the fabric you took a pic of have the white border that CBEAR had on hers??
Cammie says
I received my fabric two days ago, cut and mailed it all yesterday. It is some cute and lovely fabric.
Kris says
I am leaving right now to go mail my squares!!!!!
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Kris says
OK, so i just mailed my fabrics and then when i got home i had this mini panic that I didn’t count them, or did i? my mom brain is getting the best of me. I hope they are all there!!!!