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Month 10: July 4, 2012

Thank you, thank you again to everyone that helped with the Blue's Clues blocks for Payden. I have heard from Payden's mom, Emily, and the blocks have already started to arrive! She's promised photos once the quilt is complete.  There are quite a few photos of the blocks you all made in this post. If you haven't already, please do share pictures with our  flickr group!

Thank you for sharing your FiS project photos for a chance to win one of our monthly prizes! 


There and Back Again photos are eligible for both prizes, all other project photos are eligible for the monthly flickr prize.

There And Back Again June Prize:

Custom TABABOM Pillow featuring The Precious, by Amber's Originals

June Flickr Prize

Only Fandom In Stitches' project photos submitted through our flickr group are eligible to win our monthly prizes, so be sure to share yours. Winners are contacted via flickr. Please note that prizes not claimed after 45 days will go back into the FiS Prize Pot!  The June winners will be announced on July 3, 2012.

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There and Back Again Monthly Pattern Posts:

• Complete TABABOM Pattern Archive
• Month 1 Post
• Month 2 Post
• Month 3 Post
• Month 4 Post
• Month 5 Post
• Month 6 Post
• Month 7
• Bonus: Signature Block
• Month 8
• Month 9

TABABOM photos from the FiS flickr group:

by FantasyFan2


by kiteflyer532


by Melefim

More Photos from the FiS flickr group:

HARRY POTTER

by accroquilt

by beshneela

BLUE'S CLUES

by clumsy chord

by 224Donna

by Beshneela

by SonnyJo1

Signature Block Pattern

The four designers of TABABOM, Jennifer, Michelle, Lilja and Schenley, would be honored if you would consider sharing a signature block with each of us to help us commemorate your participation in There and Back Again. In return for your participation, the TABABOM Designers will donate $1 for each block received (per designer) to the Red Cross in our respective countries. See the original blog post for more details.

You are cordially invited to join in the Sewhooked 2012 Summer Challenge!  It’s super simple, just make any project, pattern or tutorial created by Jennifer Ofenstein (including those posted here on Fandom In Stitches!) and share a photo with the Sewhooked flickr group. To celebrate the Sewhooked 2012 Summer Challenge, get 10% off your total purchase from the Sewhooked Shop for the entire month of June. Starting right now, through midnight, July 1, use coupon code SUMMER2012. Offer valid on Sewhooked and Etsy. Full challenge details and deadlines here.

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A Little Help From Our Friends

Meet Payden. He just turned 5 and he loves Blue's Clues.

His grandmother Karen recently reached out to Fandom In Stitches about this special little boy because she's looking to make Payden a Blue's Clues quilt.

We originally posted about the Blue's Clues request here, here and here.

Payden's mom, Emily, got in touch and she has shared some of Payden's story with us:

Payden was born with a birth defect virus known as Congenital Cytomegalovirus or CMV. This virus is the reason he is headed towards his second transplant as well as the cause of his other disabilities and health complications.

Payden spends much of his time in the hospital and something as simple as his very favorite show being on a blanket is a tremendous comfort to him; especially as his 2nd liver transplant approaches. He has many disabilities and challenges, one of them being he is almost completely non-verbal and has had trouble learning sign language but the few signs he knows he uses to tell us he wants Blue's Clues! We were blessed as a family and able to celebrate his 5th birthday on May 30th, this was a milestone no one thought he would ever reach. I was just so touched when my mom told me about your website and the great effort you all have put into this, thank you from the very bottom of my heart!! And Payden's too! I have included a picture of Payden and his best friend a stuffed duck he calls 'Bo' because it reminds him of the duck named Boris from Blue's Clues!

   

A number of you have already reached out to us and offered to make and donate Blue's Clues blocks for Payden's quilt. His family is happy to receive your blocks and we are happy for you to help!

Below is a list of our current Blue's Clue's patterns. If you would like to make one or more of these blocks for Payden's quilt, please comment below with the block or blocks you'd like to make. Please include your contact information with your comment or email us so we can send you the address you need to mail the blocks to.

All blocks need to be mailed no later than June 18, 2012. The sooner, the better.

 

We'd love to have multiple volunteers make Pawprints and Crayons. 

Multiples of any of the blocks are okay, so if you want to try one that is already has a name beside it, please feel free!

Fabrics are quilter's choice, but please try to keep colors true to character, etc.

Volunteer names are in parenthesis:

• Periwinkle (Lilja, MaryJane)
• Blue (Andrea)
• Pawprints (Soma, Shelley, Sondra, MaryJane, Linda, Carolin)
• Crayon (Soma, Kristel, Robin, Kerry, MaryJane, Barb, Linda)

• Salt and Pepper (Soma)
• Shovel and Pail (Soma)
• Magenta (possibly Celine?)
• Sidetable Drawer (Donna)
• Slippery Soap  (Michelle)
• Cinnamon (ScienceMel)
• Mailbox (Anne)
• Paprika (ScienceMel)
• Tickety Tock (Sarah)
• Steve (Michelle)
• Joe  (Michelle)
• Green Puppy  (Michelle)
• Orange Kitten  (Michelle)
• Purple Kangaroo (Andrea)
• Thinking Chair (Anne, MaryJane)
• Boris (Andrea)

June is CMV Awareness month, and you can help by donating just one dollar to the Brendan B. McGinnis Congenital CMV Foundation.Visit the BBMC CMV Website for more information or to make a donation.

On a more personal note, I want to thank every single person that has volunteered to help make quilt blocks, and a preemptive thanks to everyone that volunteers after this post. I myself have volunteered for a local children's blanket making charity, The Linus Connection, for almost ten years. In all that time, I've never met or seen a single photo of, a child that's received one of my blankets. That has never been an issue for me, and it never will be, because I know the children receiving them, like Payden, are more than deserving of a little blanket love!

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