Specific fabric exchanges

[Margo C.]

I thought I signed up for this Batik/cream or white exchange but have not heard anything yet. My email is mailto:[email protected]

[Sandra S.]

Hi Ladies, this looks like it will really be fun. I ordered my paper today, will be here in NY by Sat. Do you think anyone will actually do a whole package of the papers? that would be 700 !!!!!!!!!!! Just a crazy thought going through my mind :-) )

[Lorna B.]

Ritzy,
I would like to join the neutral/dark batik HST exchange. I will send email. Thanks for organizing

Lorna
Texas

[Ellen L.]

I think we need to determine how many HSTs to send and what the deadline is for this. The HST's make up pretty quick, but mail time for our overseas friends needs to be considered. With a small number of participants, perhaps if we all committed to 2 pages of 28, we would get some back from everyone? And perhaps we can also agree to put location and screenname on the triangle paper so we know where the triangles come from? Rules similar to those posted for the Sisterhood would be a good idea too.

[Sandra S.]

We have a moderator that is setting up the guidelines and she will be posting them this weekend, hope this helps :-)

[Sandra S.]

Hi Ritzy....

I'm in for the batik HST exchange please.

Suggestion - looks like you need to set a deadline for sign-ups for this exchange or, like the big exchange, you'll get sign-ups forever!!!

Also interested in strip exchange.

BTW - Ritzy, my hometown is Lowell, Indiana...if I remember correctly, that's near you, isn't it??

Judy from Soddy Daisy, Tennessee

[Beverly C.]

Hello! I would like to join this HST batik exchange too! My email address is: mailto:[email protected]. I know this will be a lot of fun. Looking forward to getting more details. Beverly in Pelham, Georgia

[Beverly C.]

Hi Ritzy,
What size 1/2 square triangles. 2" or 2 1/2"

[Dixie H.]

I would like to join also,DixieH ,NC

[Sandra S.]

hi all, good thing there are 700 triangles in the package, think we are gonna need them? :-) ))
mailto:[email protected] is my email

[Sandra S.]

Ritzy: my email is mailto:[email protected] This batik exchange will be fun! Let us know where to send and the deadline. Thanks for doing this.

[Sandra S.]

Ok--so here is where we stand right now. We have 32 people ready to get started. Our rules are going to be much the same as the large group exchange. I am going to have a deadline date of February 7, 2011 for everyone who is interested to sign up.

Sign up now:
deadline is February 7th
If you have already let me know you are interested I will have an email with your email address and you are good to go.

When HST's are due at my house:
March 15th

To get my address:
Send me your e-mail address and I will send you my snail mail address.

HST Papers:
You can order them from http://www.LaundryBasketQuilts.com
or you can use what you can find around your area. Two important things:
1) they must give a half-square triangle square that measures 2 1/2" so when it is put in a quilt it will finish to 2".
2) we want you to use HST papers because of the accuracy.

Fabrics for this exchange:
Batiks with a light on one side and a darker on the other side. The darker fabric can be dark or medium value as long as there is good contrast between the two. I have said in the past that because of the difficulty in finding cream colored batiks that you can use a tone on tone cream, white or beige fabric. I am going to change that (hope nobody out there wants to kill me) lets use a light batik and a dark--keeping in mind--high contrast.

Sewing and Pressing:
Please sew carefully so when your squares are pressed they will not have bows in the seam line. Use a light weight thread-I will be using Bottom Line by Superior threads. Decrease the length of your stitch so the papers will tear off easily when the time comes. Make sure that you fabric is pressed well with no wrinkles (wrinkles change the size of the finished block). If you layer your fabric with the light fabric on top and then put the HST sheet on top of the light fabric, when it comes time to press (leaving the paper on) you will be pressing to the dark side.

After sewing, cut the squares apart on the solid lines, leave it folded with the paper on and press carefully while it is still folded. No need to worry about pressing seams open because it remains folded. PLEASE DO NOT TEAR THE PAPER OFF AFTER PRESSING. This will help keep them from wrinkling during transport.

Preparation for Mailing:
We would like you to write your first name and what state(please put the whole name not the abbreviation for those who are not from USA) and country you are from on the HST paper. We want to have fun and know how far our squares have traveled. Since we are a small group you may not want to make 700 HSTs. You will get a lot of yours back unless we all do 700. For each combination of light and dark (if you are using Edyta's papers--each sheet will yield 28) I would like it if you put it in its own sandwich bag if you do 56 of the same color combination then they can all go in the same bag. Use a sandwich bag that has a place to write on and write your name, your screen name and how many are in the bag. If you can't find that kind of sandwich bag please use a label with the information written on it. This will be the bag(or bags) I will put your new HSTs in to send back to you.

IMPORTANT REQUEST
Please put TQS screen name on the outside of the envelope used to send your squares, on your Zip-Lock baggies, and on your return envelope. This will help me stay organized.

Mailing:
Please use a very sturdy envelope. You will also need to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for returning your new HST's. The amount of postage to return them to you should be about the same as sending. If you are unsure of the postage, please check with the post office. And, for those using International mail, you'll also need to check with your postal service/carrier to determine how much it will take to send back to you from the States.

If there are any questions--that I have not answered here--just email me and I will answer. Thank you for play with me--ritzy

[Dawn S.]

Ritzy, I want to make sure I understand the rules. Are you saying we will use ONLY batiks? And, since a pure cream is so very difficult to find (lucky those who have some in their posession) we are within the rules by using any light? (A hint of green, or blue, etc.?) Our main focus is on CONTRAST, right? Like someone else said, I thought I had all these cream batiks, then realized they were hand dyes. And, not really cream. Funny, but a batik by definition, is more than one color. That is how we get all those wonderful designs. This will be fun! Looking forward to it!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

[Dawn S.]

Yes, only batiks and high CONTRAST.

[Dawn S.]

I sent a message to Ritzy when I let her know about my interest in the light and dark batiks. I thought some of you might be interested in the two spots I shared with her. The first is http://www.batiks.com. They are in Wytheville, Va. and have some of the light we were looking for.

The second is Homespun Hearth. They are in Colorado. They have some of Edyta Sitar's Laundry Basket fabrics. If you order from Teressa, tell her that Virginia from Tennessee sent you. Their web address is http://www.homespunhearth.com.

Hope that is helpful.