10 in 10

Four Winds Quilt Shop was doing a modern block exchange called 10 in 10.  There is a quilt in the Tula Pink book that has 100 - 6 1/2 inch squares.  There were two groups participating in this exchange.  One group did traditional, calico prints.  The other group used batiks.  I opted to participate in the batik group.  The idea was to make 10 blocks of your assigned row to exchange.  Over 10 months, the process of creating 10 blocks.  You do end up creating 100 blocks but only 10 different blocks.  But with the exchange, you do get 100 different blocks from which you can create a quilt.

I was feeling like I was saying yes to too many exchanges so I decided to try to get all of the blocks done right away.

The first month I only had one block to exchange.

The second exchange date, I turned in 8 blocks.

 

The upcoming month, I will turn in my last block.  

 

I will still go to the exchange meetings so pick up the blocks that have been turned in to me.

 

One thing that was really nice about this exchange was that we do not have to make the blocks exactly the same.  I used up so many little pieces of fabric that were not large enough to include in a really big quilt.  Since not all blocks have to be the same, all of the quilts are going to be different from each other.  I am pretty excited to see the final result of all of the quilts created from the exchange.