Hello dear friends!
I am currently listening to a book by Cokie Roberts called Founding Mothers. It is an interesting book and talks alot about having letters available to read about our history. Unfortunately, with e-mail, we don't have many letters available for our children. This got me thinking of other activities that we don't do today that our founding mothers did.
My mind wrapped around Quilting Bees. Unfortunately, I don't have enough friends in Colorado who are quilters, and honestly, I don't have time to spend hours at a Quilting Bee but I still love to quilt. The more I thought about it, I thought it would be fun to have a Quilting Bee across the country- or even further. The idea being that we get a group of quilters together to make a square for each of the other quilters. I guess it almost sounds like a Quilt Chain Letter.
Let's say we have 10 quilters who would like to join. Each quilter would make 10 of the same quilt square and send it to each of the other 9 quilters. The square would be sent with a nice note about the quilter and the square they made. Then once we have all 10 squares, we would piece them together and make a nice quilt with a nice explanation of who made each square.
If you are interested, please join this blog and send it to your quilting friends, who might be interested in joining us. Once we get a good number of individuals who are interested we could build the parameters around our quilts: don't spend over a certain amount on fabric, send the squares as low cost as possible, have a specific date of completion and mailing of all the 10 squares, do we want only certain colors, etc.
Once we piece the quilts together, we can post each of our finished quilts on here to see how creative we were with our final quilt.
I don't want this to be too expensive for anyone or stressful, just thought it might be fun. Let me know what you think.
SRW (Shannon)
