Brown Bag

I must have been feeling like I didn't have enough to do . . . or, I was feeling like I wasn't very involved in the two quilt guilds that I attend.  I decided to participate in the brown bag exchange in both guilds.

Brown Bag Exchange is supposed to be an anonymous exchange.  Of course, since there is supposed to be some mystery, everyone involved tries to figure out who has their bag before the December guild meeting.  As a participant, you place some of your fabric into a brown grocery bag that is handed out by the person running the exchange.  Then, another participant receives your bag of fabric and you receive another person's bag of fabric.  It may not be a straight across trade.  Since there are many people involved, you could wind up with any bag.  For day guild, you have to complete an item from the fabric in the brown bag you received in time for the December meeting.  For night guild, you only have to complete the quilt top.

In July, I picked up a brown bag of fabric from the day guild group.  This is the fabric that was in the bag that I received:

Included in this bag was also an interesting bit of thread art that included peacock feathers.

The peacock thread was really cool but I really had no idea what I was going to do with it.  I had to think about it for a couple of weeks.

In August, I picked up a brown bag at the night guild group.  This is the fabric that was included:

Now . . . a quilt project must be created from these fabrics and completed by the December meeting to present to each of the fabric owners.  Fun!