February Bee*days
- 6th - Naoni Sparks #204
- 7th - Cristina #176
- 10th - Rachel #169
- 18th - Lisa #249
- 20th - Seth #284
- 28th - Christy #46
February Bee*versaries
- 1st - Arwen #88 (3yrs)
- 1st - Ciara #146 (3yrs)
- 3rd - Sarah #236 (1yr)
- 7th - Casey #63 (2yrs)
- 8th - Lisa #93 (1yr)
- 8th - Lissette #239 (3yrs)
- 15th - Paula #293 (2yrs)
- 17th - Lunamatic #9 (4yrs)
- 18th - Ori #264 (5yrs)
Official Club Rules 
If you have any questions about the rules please feel free to contact us! :)
Your Trading Patch 
- You may only have one patch for trading.
If you get bored with it and want to redesign it, you may do so at any time. If you do, then let us know so we can ooh and ahh over it. :D You can also email the bees you've traded with about your new patch so they can update their quilts! - Patches must be exactly 40 x 40 pixels.
This is so everyone's quilts look nice and neat and not lop-sided! ;) - Patches must be in GIF or PNG format.
We like to keep all images consistent and small in file size! - Trading patches cannot be animated.
This rule does not apply to activity entries, where animation is usually allowed. - Patches should have some kind of "stitching".
Your patch should be on a transparent background with "stitching", no solid border.
Your Quilt
- You do not need to have a website to be part of the club.
We are currently in the process of revamping our community to include quilts right here on the site. However, since that won't happen for a while you will still need to host your quilt somewhere! - Locations for quilts:
- Allowed: Personal domains, subdomains, Tumblr, Blogger, Blogspot, Wordpress.com, LiveJournal, and other free hosting or blog/journal sites that don't cover pages with lots of advertising and popups.
- Not Allowed: Commercial sites, communities/forums, groups, profiles on myspace/facebook/neopets/deviantart, etc
- The first 3 patches on your quilt should be:
- The current official club patch, linked to the Quilting Bee.
- Your current trading patch, pixeled by you.
- The current patch for your bee number.
Required patches should either be displayed along with your member quilt OR in a prominent place, like on the index page or in a sidebar on your quilt, and not on an inner page (unless the inner page is your quilt). How you arrange the rest of your patches is up to you. :)
- Please keep a version of the following text on your quilt:
I'm an official Quilting Bee member! If you are also a member and would like to trade patches, please email me. Don't forget to include this information: your patch, your membership # and your URL. If you're not a member, please click the first patch on my quilt for info on how to join! You can modify this text if you like, but make sure that:- Members know where to contact you for a trade (whether by email or trade form, etc)
- Visitors know where to click (ie. the first patch) if they want to join the club!
- Your quilt page must be easy for us to find.
It should be no more than 3 clicks away from your main index page with a clearly marked link or bee button. If your quilt is one-click away, you can grab a one-click cookie! - Your quilt must be located on it's own page.
So not on a sidebar, footer, header, or other secondary element on your site. Give your quilt a home! :3 - If you use pop-up windows or iframes, it must be a viewable size.
Meaning your quilt layout must fit nicely inside the frame so it's easy to browse! - Do not direct link patches.
Make sure you upload all received patches to your own server! Direct linking leads to quilts full of holes, and nobody wants a moth-eaten quilt! - Collected patches should be linked to the bee's website.
Be sure to useborder="0"(or in your stylesheet:img { border: 0; }) when you link, and if your quilt is inside frames or a pop-up window, be sure to use atarget="_blank"on each link so bees' websites will display outside the frame. - You must maintain a trading log with clear dates of your latest trades.
Please make dates on logs clear (e.g. 03/04/09 is not obvious whether or not it means 4th march or 3rd april) and make them easily accessible to workerbees via your quilt. Example of a clear trade log:- Hanna #298 on Jan 9th, 2011
- Jem #123 on Dec 12th, 2010
- Melissa #188 on Nov 22nd, 2010
- Your quilt must be viewable in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
These are currently the two most-used browsers and if your quilt is nicely viewable in both it will make for a better browsing experience for bees. Make sure there are no major display issues that cause your quilt to be hard to browse! Remember it must be both browsers not just one or the other. - All sections of your quilt must be in English or have translated versions.
We definitely don't discriminate or reject anyone from a different culture or country, however since the majority of our members speak English we must request that each page of your quilt be in that language or a translation is present. This is so bees can get to know you better and that's the point of our club! :D - Your quilt must be free of broken images and links.
It's hard to browse a quilt that is full of "holes" or has pages that return "not found"! Make sure all your images and links have correct addresses.
Trading Guidelines
- Only trade with official Quilting Bee members.
All official members are listed here. If you happen to visit a site that has a quilt but the person isn't on the members list, they are probably a retired bee and cannot be traded with. - Complete the trade before adding patches to your quilt.
Please do not add another member's patch to your quilt unless you have both finished exchanging patches. Otherwise it will be considered "patch grabbing", which is not fun. :( - Reply to trade requests!
Do not assume that if someone sends you a request they've already added you to their quilt. Usually they are waiting on a reply from you to complete the trade! - Please wash your quilt regularly!
This keeps your quilt free of broken links, retired bees and other oddities. If you do this often, you may be eligible for the Cozy Quilt Award! :D