I think that's it!

Possibly (probably) the last of the swatches...

From Cicada Daydream:

From Venetian Blue:


I couldn't resist laying everything out to have a look. Thank you to everyone who sent me swatches!


This is by no means the final layout - that's going to take a good few days. Aesthetic decisions aside, I also have to start thinking about how to put this together. 'Gather materials' ... hmmm... does anyone with quilting experience have any suggestions? Backing fabric and batting come to mind - what else?

... and another one.

This beautiful block printed swatch arrived from Jewelweeds today. Have a look at her site and her Etsy shop to see what she makes with these lovely prints.

Swatches

This sweet swatch is from leililaloo.



It's been a great week for post! Soozibee sent this wonderful parcel, with an embroidered swatch and loads of goodies in the form of cards. (The pinkish glow around the bottom of the photos is from my incredibly bright pink new favourite jersey, which I'll get around to showing soon.)

Mystery Swatch

This lovely swatch arrived in my postbox yesterday, but I have no idea who it's from. If it's yours, please let me know. (And thank you - I love it!)

Swatches - it's not over yet!

From yes, I MADE that:


From Freshly Found:

And more swatches!

From paintedfishstudio:

From heartfelt:


That's such an ingenious envelope, I may have to reverse-engineer it....

Even more swatches!

From Carina's Craftblog:


From Show Your Workings:


From Flower Press:


From Fulvia Studio:


From Gracie Sparkles:


From Karen Barbe:


From mikodesign:


Thank you!!!!!!

So many swatches!

From pippijoe:


From Art Box Diary:


From the sunday project:


From Sew Bettie:


From Oami:

More swatches

From Celestina Carmen:


From feedthedog:


From Starashan:


Look at the lovely packaging!


A surprising winter warmer discovery: 1.5 m of pure silk + mom's wedding dress pattern = luxurious slip that stops your stockings sticking to your skirt and is warm! Photos will follow, when I've worked out how to use the timer on my camera, and when I've worked through the idea of showing my lingerie off on the interweb.

Swatches

Lovely things have started arriving in the post!

From Suschna:


From fourwalls design:


From Hollabee:


Thank you all! This is going to be a beautiful quilt.

I'll be sending out the last batch of swatches at the beginning of next week, as soon as I have everything for the Nest show wrapped up.

Swatch Swap

Here's my idea: I'm going to make a quilt, of simple squares, and I'd like it to be as colourful and varied as possible. So how about a swap? I'll send you a 20cm* square of one of my prints, and you send me one of yours. Medium-weight fabric, not too thick and not too thin, with a handprinted design. Small enough to stick in an ordinary envelope.

Just leave a comment, and I'll contact you for a postal address. (Make sure I can find your email address somewhere on your website or blog!) And if you don't already print fabric, why not have a go? Potato prints, lino cuts, silkscreening, stencilling....

And then join in - go through the comments left here, and contact each person to arrange a swap with them. What do you think?

*7.8 inches

ETA: Swatch Swap now has a Flickr group.