Decipher Your Quilt - please join us

Today Jess, from The Elven Garden, and I are going to tell you about new series - Decipher Your Quilt. We are inviting you to give us some information to allow us to tailor it to your needs by filling out our anonymous questionnaire by clicking here.

I love quilting, in part because it is all about colour and shapes - sometimes repeating in the most organized fashion and sometimes just improv.



However, it is often hard to figure out how a quilt block is actually made, what the measurements are and how it comes together. And what if you want to make them bigger or smaller and don't have instructions in a pattern?



In fact it can also be hard sometimes to really identify the blocks in the quilt in the first place (do you see that Blended Scraps block is really just HSTs?)

Decipher Your Quilt is all about getting straightforward answers to those kinds of questions without giving anyone a headache. We will share our knowledge with plenty of examples and photos, and will also find links to explanations, measurements and techniques that will be helpful to you.

We are asking your to fill out our survey - just click here to do so - so that we can understand everyone's needs better.  It will only take you a minute, does not require you to share your name and has  space at the end for you to write whatever else you wish to share.



You will also find in the survey a place to add a "Dear Abbey" style question (or more) for us to incorporate in the series. We are happy to get more "Dear Jess and Leanne" questions though out the series and we will set up a way to allow you to do that anonymously once the series starts. Of course, you can also ask questions via a comment on either of our blogs too.

We have set up a flickr group - Decipher Your Quilt - and we hope you will join us there too. Post photos of projects where you have been able to decipher your quilt, your blocks, or generally have figured out some of the quilting calculations. You can also find us on Instagram - Leanne here and Jess here, please use the hashtag #decipheryourquilt so that we won't miss your photos.



You can find our tentative schedule on a separate pages on my blog and on Jess's blog. Please grab our button, the one on my blog will take you back here and the one on Jess's will take you to her blog. Jess and I will be taking different parts of each topic each week.

Jess and I will each post on Thursdays - it took some figuring to sort out how to have both posts go live at the same moment on the same day of the week because Jess is in Australia and I am in western Canada. Look for our posts at midnight MST and 6:00 p.m. AEDT (which is about 7 a.m. in London, for example).



We are very excited about this series, so please fill out the survey, grab one of our buttons and join the Flickr group. Our first posts will be up on March 6.

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p.s. If you have not yet entered the Green Fairy Quilts sponsored give away, what are you waiting for, please go here to do so as it closes first thing Friday morning.

Best,

Leanne