I can't wait and I think that having a couple of articles to kick-start it is an awesome idea as it might bring more people over to the forum who have been too shy to post yet.
Are we going to be able to vote on whether we want a contemporary pattern or one from a particular era?

Sounds good, count me in, I also like the idea of having to vote for which pattern we work from.

I think I'll pull together a vote of all the patterns I would be interested in working on (both commercial and Foundations Revealed). That way I'm not stuck doing something I am not excited about, but there's a bit of choice involved. I'm glad everyone's so excited about this!

Great idea! Count me in too.

As you may have guessed from the competition vote, I've been invited to roll my sew-along in to the 2013 FR Competition! I'm terrifically excited about the whole thing, and I hope you all are too!

The sew-along will be structured around monthly articles, and then the work will be broken down into smaller chunks here on the forum, where we can all discuss and post photos of our work and offer encouragement and advice.

I'm totally stoked. Go vote!