If you've never done one I would suggest you run down to your local quilt shop and beg for them to start a group in your area. It is so much fun.
The basic concept. Everyone in the group starts with the same fabrics. We started with fat 1/8ths of two creams and two browns. On the first month you take those fabrics and you add to them however you want to and assemble any block you want -the only rule is that the four fabrics have to be present somewhere. The next month you hand off your block to the next person in line and they add to it whatever they want, which can but doesn't have to include the original fabrics. Each month the block the blocks keep getting passed to the next person, without you getting to see your block in the progress. At the end of the program (depends on how many people are in your group) you get your block back and you get to see how everyone added to it! Its really fun, and it challenges you as you have to add on a little something to everyone else's block.
Anyway, here is the block I was working on this month.
It started as the applique block with the purple border. The next person in line added the border of triangle, and the third person added the top and bottom borders. On my turn I added the strip of 4 1/2" blocks on the right. I wanted to do these tiny blocks because 1) I love the challenge of small blocks and 2) this was my favorite block that came up when I Google Image searched "reproduction quilt blocks". The lady receiving this is the reproduction fabric queen of Broken Arrow -maybe even all of Oklahoma, so I had to keep up with that. That is what makes this fun, I never do reproduction style things and this was a fun excuse to give it a go without the commitment of a full quilt.
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