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[Pat]

Are you working on my Calendar Quilt from my 'Favorite Techniques book'?  There is a group blogging it, but I think some chatter here will keep everyone going.

I think there are people who have started one when I did this a few years ago, but didn't finish.. thinking of doing one.. etc.

I'll be getting a poll on interest for doing a 2010 Calendar Sew along... give me your thoughts!

And go see all the creative variations at the challenge blog. they are awesome!
http://calendarquiltchallenge.blogspot.com/

[lisapotpie]

I am not currently sewing one, but the blog group is what brought me over here =)  I am plannign on making one this coming year, I think 2010 is a cool time to make one. I have raided my stash already and cut strips out of everything I own, ziplocked into bags by month....I can't wait to start! (I know I could start now but I want to finish a few other things first and want it to be a real calander year!)

[Pat]

that is AWESOME!!!! We'll do one in 2010... REMIND ME.... going to go now and put a note somewhere...

[madakamom]

I started the calendar challenge this year and made it through March... then life interrupted and I haven't even thought of it again until now.  Maybe I can get a few more months done this year and complete 6 mnths this year and 6 months next year!  That sounds like a plan to me!

[Pat]

that is an AWESOME Plan!! Be sure you have marked notify on this topic to keep up!

[francesca]

ciao Pat,
have a wonderful new year!!!!! 

i would love to make my first calendar quilt here with you  all and today is the right day to think about it 
i would like to make a 12 strips quilt, one strip for each month, like the one i see in your book done by mary eloise sarsfield.
i need help with math.......   
my idea is to have a finished quilt of about 90" x 90", i am really in trouble with deciding the width and the height for each strip....

if i cut each coin of a 5" width i already have 60".
at this point the sashing could be about 2"....?
i dont want to have all the coins of the same height and here comes the problem......
to have 90" in height, lets forget the sashing now, it must not be a perfect 90 x 90",
i would have to cut an average of 3" height.
how can i cut each coin in order to have a total height of about 90".
i hope u can help me.
hugs
francesca

[Pat]

Today is the DAY!!!!! I'll remind everyone.. but maybe not until tomorrow as I'm going out.

if you want strippy... do you want sashing inbetween like mine?  If so.. than 4 col of strips... 365/4 = 91 per vertical with 92 in one of them... so make 2 smaller if you are doing even sizes (I did not do that)

now you have to decide to you want borders? if not.. then 90 length/91= about 1" finished right?

Width... 4 colums... 3 sashings.. not border. want the sashing smaller or as wide as the days? Do math like above and you are good to go!

[Eclipsedred]

I would love to do this for 2010 as well. I picked my strip for today!

[Pat]

That is what I set this group up for!! I've done it two times when I had the yahoo group, a gal did it as a blog thing in 2009... and I want more people to have calendar quilts!!

If you have my Favorite Techniques book it's in there and this link shows the quilt
http://patsloan.biz/patsloansfavoritetechniquesbook-2.aspx

[Pat]

The quilt variations at the 2009 blog are fun..check them out
http://calendarquiltchallenge.blogspot.com/

[francesca]

thanks Pat for the math ))))

personally, i prefer the ones in your book, the strips are more random.
i dont like thematic fabrics according to the month.

now i will try to make some math................
hugs
francesca

[Pat]

When I did mine random I sometimes had horizontal so I could use wider.. did triangles.. etc...  what I did was be sure the 91 strips = 90 Inches (in your case).  So you just measure and adjust so that you can accomplish that.

some of my fabric I wanted to show off so the strips were wide, then I had to have horizontal or narrow later to make up for that.

It's fun to do it random, just be sure each column measures what you need!

[francesca]

i think i got it, thanks pat 

[Eclipsedred]

I think I am going to do a journal to keep with the quilt. I want to make it really represent each day so I will write a short journal entry for each strip.

[lisapotpie]

I have todays strip picked out and I wrote the date on it!  I have to uncover my sewintg table tonight so I can sew it with tomorrows strip!  I burried the poor table in a mad fix the internet spree a few nights ago!