About the Quilting Bee

The Quilting Bee is an interactive online pixel club and friendship clique with members of all ages from all over the world. The Quilting Bee originated in Feb 2000; the brain child of Gurubii :) This is her original "about" text for the club:

"It all started on Feb 18 2000 when I was viewing a slander of me on someones site. i was reading in and when i got to the bottom it said "..I pity her, with shame and her quilt." I thought to myself "where does this quilt come into play?" then I was inspired to make a club to connect REAL friends and nice people all together by doing none other than building an internet quilt! this is a club, you join, get your name on the members list, and make new friends! each time you make a friend you exchange your patches and sew them onto your quilt! soon your quilt will be big and beautiful and colorful!"

Technical

The Quilting Bee is hosted at Site5.com and is coded in PHP and XHTML by the q*bee programmer bees :) It is designed for resolutions of 1024x768 and higher, but is useable in 800x600.

History of the Club

The club grew very quickly, soon expanding to several hundred members thus becoming too much for Guruubii to handle so the club. The club was passed on to Leah of mommyish.net (now expired). Leah carefully tended the club for quite some time until once again, it became too overwhelming and the bee had to be shut down. After a long hiatus, the club was re-opened by Drew (of the expired loverevolution.net) and Kimi. Drew hosted the quilting bee while Kimi maintained it.

Drew decided to move on so Kimi packed the q*bee up and shifted it on to a new home (hosted by Iva). Kimi put a lot of love and work into the quilting bee, but it soon became time for her to move on too. However, the remaning queen bees could not let it die and although Iva had too much school work to do to take on the club, Kimberly stepped up and took over the q*bee, giving it a new home — it's own domain — and proper hosting.

After a year of running it alone, Nicole was appointed Queen bee to help out Kimberly but even then, Kimberly had to give up the club to take care of her growing family and passed it on to Jem (that's me!) :) The club, now over 7 years old, is hosted, maintained and updated by myself with my huge family of staff there to support me.

For being such a good queen, Kimberly has an appreciation quilt :)

Past Layouts

Credits

These are the people and places that have made the q*bee what it is today:

Tea Cups 08 Your Bee*mail Quilting Bee Bee*Bee*S Daily Bee Q*bee Patches Info Q*bee LJ Community