The next blilt and its unraveled counterpart are up below this post. Thank you to everyone who sent a square (and keep sending them, I'll add to it whenever I have new squares). Hopefully, it's looking a little more quilty. What do you think of the six block squares? The advantage is that it's easier to read the quilt as a whole and it looks a bit more quilty. The disadvantage is that the smaller squares mean fewer words. I'm sorry that I had to edit a few squares in order to make them fit. I apologize if anyone is upset--I tried to add the missing words whenever possible to the unraveled entry. Please weigh in and let me know what you think of the new look. If people don't like the smaller squares, I can switch back to the larger ones, but I can only fit two in each row with the larger squares.

So go click on the squares and let me know if you get together with a bunch of bloggers to play my drinking game. As long as you promise not to cheat and drag the mouse over the square, you could probably even play over IM. But definitely do click over and see the larger stories of everyone who contributed.

If you're new to the blog and have no idea what I'm talking about when I use the word "blilt," look below at the virtual blog quilt we created on the waiting inherent to infertility and pregnancy loss. Then contribute a square to this next blilt.

Which is this...

Everyone receives a boatload of advice on how to get knocked up when they're having difficulty conceiving or experiencing a loss. This next blilt will celebrate your favourite advice received during the journey ("favourite" being said in a sarcastic tone--I have another blilt coming up that will actually take kind and helpful words into consideration). I'd like this blilt to contain everything--from the more common ones such as "why don't you adopt" and "it was meant to be" to the bizarre warnings and offers. Don't worry if you don't have a crazy story to tell--it's important to include ones that are heard by almost everyone. But if you do have a crazy story to tell, make sure you include the longer version for the unraveled entry. Again, don't worry if you already see that "just relax" has been submitted--submit your own "just relax" and we can have similar squares on the blilt. I think it's important to also see how often some advice is doled out...

If we're going with the 6-block squares, we can fit under 10 words (so this is a little bit like writing a haiku--pare down the advice to a few words since you can write as much as you wish in the unraveled entry). If we go with the two squares per line (like the first blilt), we can fit under 15 words. To be on the safe side for this next blilt since I have no idea which way we'll go (with the 6-square block like the second blilt or the 2-blocks per line look of the first blilt), better be safe and try to get it under 10 words.

The system from the second blilt worked wonders to get everything entered quickly. So please send your contribution in this format: