I like this idea and we have to have a quilt shop, park with lots of flowers, maybe in a back corner a farm. I have been wanting to do this for some time.
Great thinking
Sharon
gmom

Sharon, I like your ideas, and of course there needs to be a quilt shop! Lol, Linda and I thought there should be a business or two. I couldn't think of any, but Linda suggested a bakery, which I liked also. I'd like to have some apartment buildings in the quilt, perhaps maybe two in the same block and put that block at the top so it looks farther away. And maybe have another block with two houses to go beside it, again looking further away from the front.

There are so many types of buildings we could put into our quilt. Something I just thought of is that we could make businesses one month, sending one specific type to our partners, and making another type for ourselves, such as sending the quilt shop block to one another and keeping our bakery block for ourselves. The possibilities are endless.

Here's a list of things we could put into our village...
bakery
garden/farm
park
houses
quilt shop
apartments

Come on people, I know you're creative, help us make our village...

Dan

what about a pet shop? A flower shop? a daycare? a tea/coffe shop ..just throwing some things out..and was anyone surprised I suggested a bakery?...LOL!

Just lurking, hope no one minds, how about a post office and a winery?
Shirley!

I was lurking too, I also went window shopping for a sewing machine :) (kind of good at both those)

I believe since this is a swap group and for seeds and stitches it only stands to reason you would defiantly do a flower shop and a post office block :) Kind of goes hand in hand I think, that t would also kind of need the quilt shop too since this is all conducive of this particular group (hey look I used BIG words hehe)

I like the idea of a garden/farm one too, that just sounds so homey/country/swappers kind of thing....

AND of course we know Linda would need the barkery and tea/coffee shop, it just wouldn't be Linda without those :) (wink lady you know I love yah!)

Ok, sorry I was a speaking lurker, :)
:) Aqua

Hehehe, this is so cool! I love all the ideas we're getting! I can see making this a reversible quilt, using all these great ideas on both sides, can't you? Maybe make one side urban, and the other rural...lol!

I'm going to host the January swap to get this started, and I've already got an idea of what to do. We'll make houses in January, and call the swap "January Jack". We'll make our houses and decorate/embellish the blocks with some sort of "Jack" theme. Some options will be Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill, Jack-in-the-Box, & Jack of all Trades. Using those themes, everyone will pick one and incorporate it somehow into their house block, making two of course, one to keep and one to swap.

It would probably be a good idea to alternate months we make houses with the months we make something else. When we get closer to 2013 we'll post a sign-up thread for hosts for the first 6 months, with me leading off with the January swap.

For all of you who haven't played with us before, or just once in awhile, please think about joining our group during one, two, three, or all, of our swaps! The more the merrier, and the food and wine is free!

KEEP THOSE IDEAS COMING, WE'LL BE NEEDING THEM!

Dan

and we love lurkers that speak, Miss Aqua!..LOL!!

Dan, You're making this difficult for me........

SharonG/FL-IN

how so?

Making me want to commit....at least to January, but I'm holding off........at least until I get one made.

SharonG/FL-IN

that's too funny! but, just as a reminder, you don't have to commit to the whole year...lol! as if you wouldn't, right? look at this way, you've found something you want to do, it'll be a lot of fun, AND you'll get good results!
you know I'm laughing right now, right? -dan

AND... we serve: tea, coffee and homemade cookies.."waving cookie under Sharon's nose"

Love this idea! Maybe we could do a block that represents something from our city? Like, the town where I live was founded by Italians, so we have a heavy vineyard population and our own winery- owned by one of the founding families.
Just a thought! :)

I like your idea, bunny. My town is known for swimming with the Manatees.

Homemade cookies are the best.....snickerdoodles to be exact. heehee

SharonG/FL

you two are making me hungry

I see my town with a small house just outside of town with tree lined streets with sidewalks and a little house with a white picket fence.

Keep this going. It's getting good.

gmom

We could also do themes around the months- do the scenes as they would look in the month that we're doing them. Like, in Autumn or September, Gmom's tree lined streets might be covered in leaves with multi-colored leaves on the trees, pumpkins on the doorsteps..etc...
And in Winter or December, it might be snow covered streets with bare trees, Xmas lights on the houses and cardinals in the yard.

If we were doing a storefront, they could have seasonal displays in the windows.

OR...take this further, and do a different "Park" scene every 3 months, and have one for each season- winter, spring, summer & fall. Then we could just fill in with the stores, houses, and other scenes.

this is getting good!

Lol, I love to see all this enthusiasm!

You would not believe what I found in my Quilt magazines tonight. This is a Miniature Quilt Ideas book from 2002. It list a Honeymoon Cottage, Silo barn, Salt box house, Church, Town house, Train depot, and a Quilt shop. This is so cool. I'm so excited. I don't want to wish my time away but January needs to get here.
Yes, I'm leaving any day, now. Just waiting for the bills to get here to be paid.
Trying to get my garden put down for winter because most of the veggies are done or died. I still have carrots, turnips, beets, and tomatoes. I'm hoping a neighbor will come and take tomatoes while I'm gone. They won't be ready for canning before I leave.
Have a good evening.
gmom

That sounds like quite the find!
I'm with you, I want to get started on this quilt and see where it goes for each of us! But first, September 13th-16th needs to get here, then go by realllllllly slow. I want to make my birthday last! Lol!

Did this DIE and fall by the way side? I was excited about all the ideas, I have even started looking a fabrics and thinking HMMM, I could do THIS with THIS piece and that with that and make this with that an add this here and make this to send to (someone) and then that could go on that and make this and well you get the idea, I was ALL exited thinking about what I could turn a piece into and the ideas just stopped flowing....

Can we resurrect this thread and get the ideas going again?
(Not an official member......................................................YET)
:) Aqua

^I was ALL excited thinking:

WOW how did the c jump out of that word?

Aqua, just by posting, you've "become" a member...lol! Don't worry, this will all happen in 2013, and we'll have plenty more ideas as the months go by. We never seem to run out of those... I wonder why? It's good to know that you're already thinking about what fabrics to use, that's VERY encouraging to me!

-Dan

I just posted the October swap, in which we'll be making haunted house blocks. We'll be making 15" blocks and I'm hoping enough people will join in so we can iron out some bugs (or spiders)(if any) before we begin in January. I hope you'll all think about joining!
Dan

Here is a link that might be useful: haunted house swap