Friday, 19 February 2016

Birthday Bonus Club

Thanks to the initiative of one of my favourite bloggers, Jenn from A Quarter Inch from the Edge, I was invited to participate in a Facebook group called the Birthday Bonus Club which has people from across Canada shipping each other 50 2.5" squares based on a request during their birthday month.

 My birthday isn't until August, so I will have a long time to wait for my many packages of fabric loveliness from across the country, but I've been having so much fun selecting fabrics to send to the birthday queens each month.

 In January we had one birthday queen and she requested solids of any colour. Now that is an easy request! I dove into my scraps (one of the best parts of the Birthday Bonus Club!) and put together this playful, bright combination of solids:
This was for the January Birthday Queen, who requested solids of any colour. I dug into my scraps and put together this lovely warm stack. (All Kona, of course).

There were two February birthday queens, one of whom is the organizer herself, Jenn. She requested low volume, a risky ask because there are different interpretations of this and there is lots of room for disappointment. I wanted to pull out true low volume prints so some of these came from stash instead of scraps to make sure they were what I would consider low volume.
February Birthday Queen Jenn requested low volume. I had fun digging around for these. I tried to go with ones that had crisp white backgrounds and read very white.
The other birthday queen wanted 3/4 bright and 1/4 white. I dug into my scraps to pull out a rainbow of beautiful prints that I thought met her request.
The other February birthday Queen asked for 1/4 white and 3/4 brights in prints or solids. Wow, with those loose guidelines you can go wild! I tried to put together a really pretty rainbow for her, plus so Kona white of course!
The club has been so much fun, and being within Canada means that postage is not going to kill me every month. Plus I'm already drooling in anticipation of my birthday month when I get, I think, 28 packages or some such number? Ridiculous. And awesome!

 Eagerly anticipating March 1st to find out what the next birthday queen wants!

 Lynn
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3 comments:

  1. Anita19 February 2016 at 20:43

    Nice. Can't wait to see what you get.

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  2. Anja @ Anja Quilts19 February 2016 at 20:49

    It has been fun. I have to wait until July...hopefully by then I'll have decided what I want. LOL

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  3. Jenn @ A Quarter Inch from the Edge20 February 2016 at 09:01

    29... my friend, 29 packages of squishy goodness arriving in one's mailbox. The low volume ask was a risk, but it's paying off. I've been thinking about a massive low volume project and this is a great start to the shenanigans. Can't wait for March, even though there's just one Birthday Queen. May is going to be awesome!

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