I have been a very busy quilter working on my flower blocks! My first batch arrived last week - from Caroline! They are BEAUTIFUL!

Flower Block Participants:

1. judy333
2. meima
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4
5. katy122
6. lockeb
7, juttz
8. nanciii
9. ddavisgray

10. amcfeely
11. suellen_delawares
12. gininmn

YAY! Today I got another set of flower blocks. Here's the updated list:

Received Flower Blocks:

1. judy333
2. meima
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. katy122
6. lockeb
7, juttz
8. nanciii
9. ddavisgray

10. amcfeely
11. suellen_delawares
12. gininmn

I know that Bill and I are both working on our blocks this week. How are the rest of you coming along? Reminder that the latest date to mail them to me is April 1 (eleven more days, eghad!!!). If you don't yet have my mailing address, simply email me at judika3 at yahoo dot com. Thanks!

Good Afternoon...
I hope that everyting is enjoying the swap....I make myself a goal to get my blocks all finished this weekend and I'm almost there..I'll have them all completed this afternoon.....
Will have them out in the mail on Tuesday - once our post office opens after the Easter Holiday.
HAPPY EASTER everyone...
Bill

Hey all! I forget when this swap goes out??? Cant wait to see all the flowers!

My blocks are ready to mail. Could you send me your address?
Thanks,
Meima

Bill and Meima - I just sent you my mailing address via email. I can't wait to see your flowers! As for my progress, five blocks are finished and the others are awaiting one more piece (a circle) to be appliqued. The end is in sight!!!

Caroline, the postmark due date is April 1; let's see how fast the postal system works with our squishies!

Well I started cutting sort of. But I will have them done. I am going to take some time from Conner duty this week and have my DH watch him so I can have some time to whip these out.

Amy

Thanks for the update, Amy. You are going to love these blocks. Although I only have three sets right now, all three flowers are different and wonderful!

Back to sewing a binding on a quilt that's going in a show on Friday. Nothing like last minute...

Judy

Hi everyone,
Hope everyone is having fun with their blocks...mine will be out in today's mail......it's been great......can't wait to see everyones blocks.
Bill

Mine are in the mail. (I'm a new quilter so I hope they are okay.)

Hi Meima,
So am I - totally new - I'm also hoping that mine are okay.....don't worry - I'm sure that everyone's will be fine......
Bill

Mine goes in the mail in the morning.
This is a great swap, I can hardly wait to see what everyone has done.

doris

Hi Bill,
You will be getting a package soon. I just couldn't wait to send the sewing machine patterns. I am also curious as to how long it takes our little packages to travel around. I'll look for notion patterns for your birthday block package.
Meima
P.S. I thought you were a veteran quilter!

Hi Meima,
I'm so excited...thanks.....
Have a great day!
Bill

I mailed my blocks this afternoon.
Ginny

I have 3 blocks done only a few more to go. LOL Now I'm realizing that I don't have enough of the white on white print that I have been using. So tomorrow I get to go to the hardware store and Walmart because those are the only place I could have gotten it. Small town life is wonderful just not a lot of fabric stores. My husband leaves in the morning for a week of work in CA. I will have the house to myself. We don't have any children but we do have kids.LOL

Here is a link that might be useful: more kid pictures

I just looked in my saved emails and if I did have your address I can't find it now. Could you send it to me? Thanks.
Suellen

I just finished my last block! Here is something funny when I was packaging them to send out Monday I discovered that I had made 14 blocks! 2 more than I needed.
Suellen

My blocks are done and I am headed to the post office in just a few minutes. I will send them priority so they get there faster.

Amy

Well, quilters, it's April 2!!! Here's an update of the flower blocks I've received:

1. judy333 - HERE
2. meima - RECEIVED
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. katy122
6. lockeb
7, juttz
8. nanciii
9. ddavisgray - RECEIVED

10. amcfeely
11. suellen_delawares
12. gininmn - RECEIVED

All of the blocks are unique and WONDERFUL!!! Several others are in the mail. I'm sure you are itching to see them. Hopefully, the postal system will be kind to us and speed those blocks to Massachusetts!

Judy

Yesterday I received another set in the mail! I am aware of two more sets still in transit. Sadly, one member is not able to complete her blocks. Two others have not communicated lately. I'm tracking them down to see if theirs are also in transit. (The Christmas block swap I was in at this forum had a similar problem; we didn't get all 12 to send in the blocks. Sob...) I'll let you know by Sunday what I find out.

Anyway, the ones here are absolutely wonderful and will make a great quilt or sets of wall hangings!!! Bravo to all you quilters who participated!!!

Updated list as of April 3rd's mail:

1. judy333 - HERE
2. meima - RECEIVED
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. katy122
6. lockeb
7, juttz
8. nanciii
9. ddavisgray - RECEIVED

10. amcfeely - RECEIVED
11. suellen_delawares
12. gininmn - RECEIVED

I just got home from work and can report that two more sets of blocks arrived today. Our wonderful ddavisgray blessed us with a second set to make up for someone who had to drop out. As I stated in my earlier post today, I haven't heard from two others; therefore, I've emailed them to see what's up.

Updated list as of April 4th's mail:

1. judy333 - HERE
2. meima - RECEIVED
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. ddavisgray - set 1 - RECEIVED
6. lockeb - RECEIVED
7, juttz
8. nanciii
9. ddavisgray - set 2 - RECEIVED

10. amcfeely - RECEIVED
11. suellen_delawares - IN TRANSIT
12. gininmn - RECEIVED

Judy

Judy,

I just got your email. I would to apologize to the list of swappers for not going this swap. I totally did not even remember signing up for this back in Novmeber. With SIL's MSRA infection and everything else. I did not keep up with any of it since then. I hardly venture here much so I do not keep up. Again I am so sorry I screwed up big time.

Nanci

Hi Judy,
If we can put off sharing our blocks for another month, I would make another set. This is the busiest time of the year for me at our school, so I couldn't do them immediately. I would be glad to do them if we can wait.
Let me know.
Meima

I'll be emailing everyone who made a block later today. I plan to make another block for everyone in the next four days as I await the last set that's in transit. That leaves us one block short ------ which is exactly what happened with this forum's Christmas block swap of which I was a member. (In that case, we received two of our own blocks back and had to make our own block to make a total of 12.)

There is one more possibility: Is there anyone else out there who could make a set THIS coming week and mail them out by next weekend? (Perhaps someone on the waiting list who does not have a full-time job and has the time to participate?) If so, let me know today or tomorrow here at this forum or privately at judika3 at yahoo dot com. Trust me, the flowers I have at my house awaiting distribution are really nice and are awaiting a home. Here are the requirements if interested:

1. Make twelve 12 1/2 inch (unfinished size) flower blocks.

2. Background color: white on white!!!

3. Flower color(s) and design: your choice...think spring/summer (example: no poinsettias - much too Christmassy) - - appliqued or pieced or paper-pieced or a combo

4. Keep one block and mail the remaining eleven blocks to me (If you want to pin a small piece of paper with your name on each block you send, that's great...many quilters like to know who made which block.) Email me so that I can give you my address...I'm judika3 at yahoo dot com.

5. Along with the eleven blocks, make sure you include with them a large self-addressed, stamped return envelope so that I can mail you your blocks!

Thanks!!! Again, members already in the swap group, I'll be emailing you privately later today.

I received another set on Saturday!!! Thanks, Darla! I love the pattern!

Updated Received List:

1. judy333 - HERE
2. meima - RECEIVED
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. ddavisgray - set 1 - RECEIVED
6. lockeb - RECEIVED
7, crafteedee - RECEIVED
8. alabamajanet - finished and will be mailed out
9. ddavisgray - set 2 - RECEIVED

10. amcfeely - RECEIVED
11. suellen_delawares - IN TRANSIT (2 weeks now...both of us are checking post offices for reassurance that sometimes this happens from Utah to Massachusetts)
12. gininmn - RECEIVED

Just curious, Judy...If you have 12 people, won't there be 12 blocks? I'm no good at math, but it seems to me like you've got all you need. :)

Cheryl

Cheryl -

You are correct in that all 12 sets of blocks have been made. This string is to indicate which ones successfully made it through the Canadian and American postal systems and are sitting in my Massachusetts livingroom waiting to be packaged. As of this weekend, I'm only missing suellen_delawares' and alabamajanet's. (Alabamajanet was one of our wonderful last-minute substitute blockmakers whom we love!!! We love Suellen, too; sadly her blocks are somewhere held up in the postal system. It's not her fault whatsoever that they are late.)

Hope this all makes sense, Cheryl!

thanks, Judy :)

Talk about FAST mail! Today I received alabamajanet's blocks. YIPPEE!!! (Your block made me smile, Janet!)

Updated Received List:

1. judy333 - HERE
2. meima - RECEIVED
3. caroline1947 - RECEIVED
4. vicky4x4 - RECEIVED
5. ddavisgray - set 1 - RECEIVED
6. lockeb - RECEIVED
7, crafteedee - RECEIVED
8. alabamajanet - RECEIVED
9. ddavisgray - set 2 - RECEIVED

10. amcfeely - RECEIVED
11. suellen_delawares - IN TRANSIT (2 weeks now...)
12. gininmn - RECEIVED

So glad to hear that Alabamajanet's blocks arrived so quickly. Sure hope that Suellen's stop doing a USPS walkabout and make it to their destination real soon.

Ginny, hoping for snow to melt and spring (and flowers) to arrive

Ginny,
my Irises are blooming! Early blooming season here in AZ. They are short, but I have 3 blooms! It took 7 yrs, but the bulbs from my husband's grandma's old house in WA finally produced the first flower last year after a good freeze & snowfall. I can't keep much else alive here with the heat & the javalinas...pesky animals.

So....how long does it usually take for pkgs to be returned or that we decide that they got tossed in the "USPS black hole" never to be seen again?

{{!gwi}}

If the lost blocks do not arrive by this weekend, I will be sending out the packages without that block. In the past two years reading postings, I have read that this has happened before. Fortunately, most of the packages eventually arrive...some two months after being sent! I'm in the process of cutting out pieces to make the 12th block if the package doesn't arrive.

Judy

Judy,
You've been wonderful hosting this swap.
With all the problems we've had, thank you to the many who have stepped in to help out, and Judy,you've been such a trooper.

Hopefully the last package will get there in the next 2 days.

Thank you for your dedication to this swap.

I'm so excited to see these. I just know they will be perfect.

I hope it hasn't been too much trouble for you and you will continue to come up with such great ideas for swaps.

Thank you for your patence with all of us.

I just know the reward of the flower blocks will be so worth it.

Thanks so much,
doris

I'm sending out the packages minus the missing block. I'll mail out that block separately once the lost-in-space package arrives. Enclosed in your package is an extra applique block for those of you who need to finish a 12-block flower quilt and can't wait. However, the pieces are fused only and will need to be buttonhole stitched or satin stitched in order to hold up over the years.

Let's keep hoping for the missing package to show up!!!

THANK YOU for your patience!

Judy,

You have gone above and beyond for this swap. Thank you so much.

Vicky~