Lets do a Strip Exchange Summer 2011

The book Friendship Strips and Scraps has inspired us to do a strip exchange.  Edyta Star, as seen on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson, illustrates how to gather a variety of the fabrics and pull them together into a spectacular scrappy quilt using strip panels.  The beautiful quilts within this publication use print and batiks.  It is the unique blend of a variety of fabrics that add fun and pop to your strip panel.  The quilts from this book are here in the shop now. 

How does this work?  We will exchange 1 1/4" strips that are cut from fat quarters resulting in 21-22" length.  Fabrics can be medium to dark prints and batiks.  You will need a total of 220 strips bundled in groups of 11, or twenty strips per bag (25 inches or approx ¾ yards).  Keep one bag for yourself and exchange the 10 bags of 20. When you come to the exchange August, you will trade your bags with others and come home with a variety of strips that will build a gorgeous quilt.  Top quality “quilt shop” cotton from only the best industry manufactures do we want for these quilts.