I just pulled out a quilt kit I purchased off EBay. The quilt was an unfinished Y2K charm quilt. The quilters swapped 2 1/2 inch blocks. The blocks included 24 fabric blocks and one block with your name and state. Some blocks were from international quilters. Then you swapped and the quilter would put all the blocks together and would have a y2k quilt.
Someone was selling their huge lot on EBay and I won the auction several years ago. Now the trauma. Whoever had the quilt before did not use 1/4 inch seam allowances. So there are 38 blocks sewn together with up to 1/2 inch seam allowances. I say up to because they are all over the place with the seam allowance. Now I need to take apart 38 blocks. I can understand why they became frustrated. I have taken apart 3 blocks and put together 15 blocks that were never sewn together.
Anyway my task for the next few nights between knitting is to take those blocks apart. One other thing with the quilt is that instead of leaving the signature block with the 24 fabric blocks that was sent, the prior owner just tossed them all in a bag. So those need to be resorted for use.
I did win an auction for some 2000 fabric for the border from Ebay. I think I will border each block with the 2000 fabric and then do one large border with 2000 clock fabric. Both fabrics have 2000 on them.
What I have learned from this is don't expect the quilt from EBay to be perfect. I have never purchased a partially done quilt kit before from EBay. Would I do it again. Yes, most likely. It has been fun to see all the signatures and places the blocks came from. It has been really fun to look at the different fabrics.
