There’s been a Patchwork Party every year since at least
2007, but I didn’t hear about them until four years ago. Patchwork Party is an
online shop hop involving a dozen quilt shops. Each store offers a kit for a 12”
block as well as a finishing kit that incorporates all twelve blocks in the
design. Last year quilters were offered a choice of two color ways: raspberry
or rust. I made both and ended up with two lovely queen-size quilts. This year
the kits will be laser cut. Cutting takes roughly the same amount of time as
piecing a block, so these blocks will go together much faster. But I can
usually produce three to four blocks out of two block kits by cutting frugally.
This year twelve kits means twelve blocks. Worse, the price of each kit has
jumped from $8 to $10. So instead of spending $96 for 24 blocks, I’ll spend
$120 for twelve.
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