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@lil owl: Germany is fine! I have mailed there a few times.

http://ellisonlane.com/2012/02/how-to-host-fabric-swap.html

I'm stealing the rules from here. Let me know if this works for everyone. I'm changing the rules just a tiny bit. The one I'm pointing to has a centeral person collecting everything and passing it out. I think it will be fine if we just mail our fabric to each other.

I think this might work better because if someone new joins we can just send them the fabric swap directly. Just a thought we could decided together if this is okay.

I wouldn't mind at all being a central person for distrubution either.

1. For swapping 5″ charm squares, each person will purchase 1 yard of fabric and cut it into 5″ charm squares. 1 yard = 56 charms. (I recommend buying 1.25 yards- never hurts to have a little extra in case you make a cutting mistake.)

2.Choose a fabric that has a small print suitable for an 5″ charms. Scale of the print is very important as smaller works better in this case. A larger print has a larger repeat and you want each charm to have enough of the print showcased on each piece. If you are swapping larger cuts of fabric such as 10″ squares, you could have a larger scale print.

3.Fabric should be designer label, 100% cotton, quilt shop quality fabric. No Hancocks, Joanns or Michael’s fabrics. For a fabric swap, the fun is receiving quality fabric that you might not be able to pick up around the corner.

4. Fabric must be new and unwashed and must come from a smoke free environment.

5.Before mailing, cut your fabric into 5″ x 5″ charm squares. Press your fabric before cutting. 1 yard = 56 charm squares (5″ x 5″.) Here’s a great tutorial on how to cut fabric into charms by Elizabeth Hartman.

6. Put your fabric in a ziplock bag and include an index card with your name and email address.

7.Upload pictures of your fabric to the swap Flickr group and include the name of the fabric, designer, etc. This ensures that there are no duplicate fabrics chosen and allows everyone to find out more about the fabrics in case they would like to order more once they have received their charms.

I think of we don't have 56 people we could just send something like 4 charms to each other instead of just one. (aka get quarter yards instead of 1 yard) I have a lot of fabric so maybe this is a terrible suggestion.

Please write if you have a better idea. I normally do block swaps but I'm kind lazy these days.

Also we can load our fabric pictures here instead of flicker. But I honestly don't mind repeat fabric!