{"id":11630,"date":"2011-12-26T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11630"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:12:52","slug":"boxing-day-sew-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/boxing-day-sew-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day Sew In (BDSI)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BDSI<\/a>
BDSI Button<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Welcome BDSIers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just so you know: I am not writing this at 3am. I am sleeping, but I scheduled this to post at 3am for you crazy people \ud83d\ude09 who live in different timezones and are already up and sewing.<\/p>\n

Other organizers and participants:<\/p>\n

Sandy of Quilting…for the Rest of Us<\/a>. Sandy has a post<\/a> or two<\/a> up about #BDSI already. She is the main gal, so head over to her site for all of the instructions and excitement!<\/p>\n

Pam of Hip to Be a Square Podcast<\/a>. If you don’t listen to her podcast, you should. If nobody can make you sew, Pam can.<\/p>\n

Tanesha of Crafty Garden Mom<\/a>. Love her podcast, especially the book reviews.<\/p>\n

Sandy of Quilt Cabana Corner<\/a>. Sandy has a book<\/a> out. Have you seen it?<\/p>\n

Katie of Katie’s Quilting Corner<\/a>. Katie has made the most amazing progress in her short career as a quiltmaker. If you look “all in” up in the dictionary, you will see Katie’s picture next to the definition.<\/p>\n

There will be prizes.<\/p>\n

\"Giveaway<\/a>
Giveaway #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sandy and Pam are organizing all that and I am just contributing. I want people to have fun, but I don’t want to do too much work. Mostly I am lazy. After racing around for 3 weeks with holiday preparations, houseguests, having a cold and not sleeping, with a sprinkle of major baking on top, I am tired.<\/p>\n

Here is some info about when #BDSI starts at which locations. This chart\/information is completely cribbed from Sandy’s post<\/a>. She did such a good job, I only had to edit it a bit. \ud83d\ude09 Thanks, Sandy.<\/p>\n

\"BDSI<\/a>
BDSI Giveaway #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To help you with the time zone math–starting at midnight at Sandy’s house means that BDSI starts at:<\/p>\n

7:00 p.m. Dec. 25 in Honolulu (PST)
\n9:00 p.m. Dec. 25 in San Francisco (PST)
\n5:00 a.m. Dec 26 in London
\n6:00 a.m. Dec 26 in Berlin
\n2:00 p.m. Dec 26 in Tokyo
\n4:00 p.m. Dec 26 in Sydney
\nAnd, Sandy says, “24 hours is 24 hours no matter where on the globe you’re standing. So, for some of you, BDSI will be ending on December 27th. And that’s OK with me.” We on the West Coast will get an extra 3 or 5 hours, though fat lot of good it will do those of us visiting the rellies or sleeping.<\/p>\n

Boxing Day Sew-In will officially end again at midnight EST–as soon as December 26 ends at Sandy’s house (frigid North) –24 hours of fun! Giveaway winners will be announced on December 27th.<\/p>\n

Sandy writes “(Thanks to The World Clock time zone converter at www.timeanddate.com<\/a>, ’cause I sure can’t do that math myself!)” I added San Francisco and Honolulu, because SF is a very important city and who doesn’t love Hawaii?<\/p>\n

Follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #BDSI. Even if you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to Tweetchat<\/a>, enter the\u00a0#BDSI hashtag and follow the tweets. People have already been tweeting.<\/p>\n

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Now to the fun stuff:<\/p>\n

I think I am going to continue to work on the Stepping Stones<\/a>. I have boatloads of Half Square Triangles (HSTs) to make. I have been using the Triangle Technique<\/a>, but would like to try Katie’s fish technique<\/a> again. I have done it before, but it has been awhile. The site<\/a> where she found the Fish ‘template’ does not have a template for the size of HSTs I need and I don’t want to take the time to make one. Perhaps for another project.<\/p>\n

I also received some pizza fabric with which I want to make some pillow cases for the Young Man. My mom made him a Food Quilt (yes, he will end up with two eventually) with a pizza border, so I thought some pizza fabric pillowcases would be a nice addition. We’ll see if I get to that. Perhaps in between HSTs.<\/p>\n

I also have the G block for the A-B-C Challenge to make<\/p>\n

I could do anything on the 26 Projects list and make progress, so the ‘future is wide open’ as that song says.<\/p>\n

I have pillowcases planned for the nieces as well.<\/p>\n

Never a dull quiltmaking moment around here!<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy BDSI! Look for the Block-a-Long block tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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