5
ways
you
Project 48
can
support
First of all, thank you so much for joining us with Project
48. Linden and I are working really hard to bring you great
quality blocks each week along with our amazing bloggers. In
addition to making an awesome quilt, we are constantly
striving to create an inclusive, welcoming and encouraging
community. We chose a run Project 48 as membership site,
because it’s a key component of creating the kind of quilting
community that we want to build and be part of.
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When we started out with Project 48, we never dreamed that we
would have such an overwhelming response. Our membership now
exceeds 1500 people from all over the world. Members have
joined us from places like Sweden, New Zealand, England,
France, America and Japan. This is incredibly humbling for
women from a small town in Australia. Our members are from
ages, genders, backgrounds and abilities. Two weeks in, we
so very proud of all of you for getting on board with
creating beautiful blocks and generally being great.
two
all
are
us,
Running a website and maintaining a (growing) membership base
of this size takes a lot of work. Countless hours of research,
writing, editing, photography, coding, emailing and a lot of
behind the scenes work goes on that you will probably never
know about. We are looking into how we can continue our great
service through several avenues, including sponsorship.
This is why we have made the decision to move to a paid model.
From 1 February, new members will be asked to pay a small
joining fee. Nothing will change for existing members. As we
sort through the best way to manage this and exactly what the
fee will be, there are a few ways you can extend your ongoing
support to us.
1. Make a donation
Donations from our members would make a huge difference to us.
There are all kinds of fees for buying a domain, web hosting,
blog tools, advertising and so on. We have earmarked several
features which would improve the website and we would love to
be able to purchase them to make our lives easier on the
backend, for example, automatically adding our members details
into our newsletter so we don’t have to export it each week.
There are also extra features available for you as members,
like upgrades to the registration and password process. This
is something we would all love to see I’m sure!
Any donations are gratefully received
through our Paypal account.
2. Visit our blogs and engage with
us
We work really hard to provide value through our own websites
as well. Engaging with our blogs connecting on social media
are easy ways to support us. If your find a post interesting
leave us comment. If you like a post, tell your friends about
it! Everybody loves a recommendation, so share on Facebook,
tweet the link or pin the content. Chances are, if you like
the content, your friends will too.
Visit Linden’s
Creative
blog
at
Vine
Lines
Visit Crystal’s blog at Raspberry Spool
3. Sign up to our newsletters
Another really easy way to support us is to sign up to our
newsletters. Newsletters are a great way for us to connect in
a slightly different way and give you direct content. Most of
our newsletters will give you exclusive content through a
subscription service too.
4. Buy our products
If you love our patterns and products, you should purchase
them. Purchasing from our online shops will help us in the
most direct possible way
5. Support our guests.
Supporting the bloggers who are part of Project 48, supports
us too. You can do this by connecting and engaging with them;
signing up to their newsletter and buying their products.
These are 5 easy ways to support us at
Project 48. And the best thing is, many
of these options don’t cost you anything
but will mean the world to us and keep us
delivering great content. Win win all
around!
Welcome to Project
epic quilt sampler!
48,
an
One year
Two quilters
Twenty-four quilty friends
Forty-eight blocks
About Project 48
After much behind the scene planning and preparation, it is
exciting to announce that Linden from Vine Lines Quilting and
Crystal from Raspberry Spool are partnering up to deliver
Project 48. Project 48 is designed to be an epic year long
quilt sampler, with four 9” blocks delivered each month in
2016. Each month will focus on a different theme, where Linden
will create a traditional style block and Crystal a modern
interpretation along with two guest versions. The series will
be offered free of charge in 2016 to all those who sign up
with their email address. Each week, subscribers will receive
an email with the instructions to the block and information on
the guest contributors including contact information and many
more tips, tricks and extra tid-bits along the way.
Sign up before 31 December 2015 and become a VIP member to
Project 48. As a VIP member, you can expect some early sneak
peeks and an exclusive ebook for preparing for your sampler.
Membership to Project 48 is free, all you
need to do is register below.
Best of all, you will receive an email every week letting you
know when the next block is ready!
Its going to be amazing. Are you in?
Awesome!
We are so glad you are joining us. We will keep you up to date
before the first block is released in January. Can’t wait to
see your quilt come to life!