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Calling All Kona Cotton Fans! Treasure Hunt Request & Giveaway

I am a self-proclaimed Kona Cotton Snob.  I simply will not use any other solid fabric line in my quilts.  I covet my Robert Kaufman Color Card, and I have a dream of one day owning each and every one of the 219 colors available. If I have to rely on my own wallet and travels to accomplish this feat, it will take me a number of years to acquire each color.  I was willing to wait for however long it took, but I’ve just had an idea for a series of quilts, and now, well – that just won’t do.  I know I should be preparing for my trip to Quilt Market, but… well… I can’t help when ideas come & I have to put them out there before they are lost. Not every store carries every color (obviously) so it’s hard to find all the colors locally.  I can order them wholesale by the bolt, but I don’t need 219 bolts of fabric, and wouldn’t know where to put them if I had them.  [Ok... let's be honest here.  If I had them, I'd probably pull all the clothes out of my closet & put them there.  Who needs nice, neat clothes hung up anyway? It's overrated.] So can you help me?  I need five rectangles of each fabric – 3″ x 5″.  This size should fit pretty easily in a standard envelope with regular postage.  They can also be cut from as little as 1/8 yard (or slightly less, but a lot of shops won’t cut yardage less than that, and you need enough of a margin to accurately cut on-grain.) Why 5 of each?  Well… I don’t have the idea 100% worked out, but I’m working in a series so there will be more than one quilt, PLUS I would like to pull together one complete set and give it away to one lucky winner from among the contributors.  So it’s almost like a 50/50 raffle, except it’s 80/20 in my favor.  I also will acknowledge, somewhere with the quilt, where the fabric came from so there’s a record of who sent what.  I think it would be fun to see where fabric will come from, like a treasure hunt! Some general notes & such: RK Kona 100% Cotton only please. I know there are other solids out there, but it defeats the purpose if you send broadcloth or Bella or something that is not Kona Cotton. Please don’t pre-wash. For one, I don’t want this to create more work for you, and I’d like all the pieces to be consistent, one way or another. Don’t cut if you don’t wanna.  Don’t let cutting it become a deterrent.  If you just want to slap a hunk of fabric in the mail to me and make me deal with it, I’m fine with that too! Please tell me what color it is.  Yes, I have a color card, but some of these fabrics are sooooo close in color that it’s hard to tell the difference between them unless you have ALL the colors.  So please be a peach & get the EXACT name from the end of the bolt.  The number probably won’t be listed, but the names are unique. Please do tell me a story if you have one!  A story about the fabric is great – where you got it from, whether you had to hunt for it, a shout out to the store where you found it, etc.  Especially for the rare colors.  A story about 1019 Black may be easier to come by than a story about 318 Grapemist.  I’ll take them all though! I’ll be featuring the most interesting, funny, or dramatic stories on my blog. Please send by January 15, 2011.  Ok, sure – that date is pretty far out there.  But that should give a pretty good indication of what’s out there to be had. Pretty Please, Fill in the spreadsheet.  To reduce the chance of duplicates, please fill in my Google spreadsheet when you’ve located a color you’re willing to send.  The mailing address is in the spreadsheet. So what do you get out of it?  Well, for one, you get to help out your bestest good Blogger friend with a seemingly impossible task, and that’s worth something, yes?  Plus, you get good karma points from, ummm…. the karma-points-awarders for doing a good deed.  Also, you will have an opportunity to win a full set of these rectangles too (and yes, if you send more than one color set, you get more than one entry.)  AND as I blog about the project I’ll share at least one of the projects as a free pattern/tutorial. You’ll notice in the spreadsheet that I haven’t indicated which colors I already own.  That’s because I’d really rather all the rectangles come from elsewhere (makes the quilt more interesting!) and use the colors I already own for sashing, borders, backing, and binding. Thanks for all the help you guys & gals!  Now to finish packing and get to the airport… Happy quilting!

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