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Collaborative Block Layers (Round 1- Revised)

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Swap Coordinator:WeBees (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:October 15, 2016
Date items must be sent by:January 30, 2008
Number of swap partners:3
Description:

1) Create 12 blocks (4" square)-These can be "quilt" blocks, paper collage blocks, crochet or knit "granny" squares, whatever medium you like. Please include some starting point for the layering process with these first block rotations. The more layers the more interesting, anything to get the ball rolling. You will send 4 of these to 3 people.

Defination of Layer: Collage, stitching, cut work, painting or glazing etc...You could add a bit of something to one part and something else to another other part. Each "layer" doesn't need to cover the whole piece but you need to do more than glue a bead to one side and call it done. These are mini collaborative ART pieces so put your heart into them. These are also two sided so I encourage you to look at both sides as we begin, perhaps both sides could get some attention. I would request that we include on the "Backs" the addition of each persons initials and a # 1-5 to indicate which round you participated in. Check out some ATC's or other collage types of work for inspiration.

We will all end up with 12 different blocks collaborated on by 5 people that we can then assemble in any way we wish (in a book, on the wall, stitched together, whatever).

We will use swap bot to create automatically generated random swap partners. You will get an email before each rotation telling you who you will send your blocks to. The first rotation will have a ship date of Jan 28th. We will then use this site to assign the additional rotations at intervals of 4-6 weeks.

Discussion

skhsimpson 01/19/2008 #

Are we creating the 1st layer with the same "process" on each block or can each block have a different look all together? Sarah

cobaltskystudio 01/20/2008 #

Mine are different in general- a few have the same application...

egeagon 01/21/2008 #

I'm doing mine all different.

WeBees 01/21/2008 #

All different I think or if a few are similar that's cool too since they will be split up and going to different people.

WeBees 01/21/2008 #

Okay all, please take photo's of each round if you can.

smitten 01/25/2008 #

Quick Question: We are creating 12 blocks but have only 3 swap partners for the 1st swap. Do we send 4 blocks to each person?
Thanks!!

cobaltskystudio 01/26/2008 #

Yes....... :)

egeagon 01/27/2008 #

OK, mine are on their way to Sarah, Christina and Lidia. I'll upload a picture tomorrow.

egeagon 01/27/2008 #

OK, Might I just say that I really, really hate Swapbot. I just left y'all a message about how I had uploaded a picture for y'all, but then the picture wasn't here and now the message about the missing picture is missing too. I hate Swapbot.

magpie 01/27/2008 #

Uhmmmm... I've already mailed my blocks out, too. I just logged in to mark them "sent" and saw Rachel's message about having new swap partners. According to the new list, I should of mailed one of my packets to LidiaMac, but it's already on the way to Kara instead. I guess either y'all can have someone else send their packet to Lidia rather than Kara or perhaps Kara could refoward to the packet on to Lidia once she recieves it. Whatever you all want to work out is fine with me- just let me know if I need to do anything else on my end. Sorry for throwing the swap list off, but Rachel's note wasn't there when I addressed my envelopes earlier today. Luckily, my other two partners remained the same. -Dana

racheljohnson 01/27/2008 #

I was afraid this would happen, but went ahead with the re-assignments anyway. I am sorry for the confusion. Don't panic. Maybe you all can work it out, but if not, let me know. We could rearrange people to get you all paired up correctly so that ratings work out.

skhsimpson 01/27/2008 #

I'm going to wait to send out my blocks until I know for sure that everything is worked out.

cobaltskystudio 01/28/2008 #

ok....mine will leave Maine in the morning :)

smitten 01/28/2008 #

sorry :( I don't know who my original swap partners were.

my new ones are: Heather Powers, Dana Young, L Clemons

WeBees 01/28/2008 #

HOLD THE PRESSES:I extended the ship date by two days so we can try to sort this out. If you have not already shipped please read below and see what I have figured out.

Marley, Lidia and I are the only ones who will need to make a change. All the rest of you are okay with your current assigned partners (I'm listing all in another note to be certain). Please use the partners that are assigned here, many didn't change from the last assignment.

Marley-send to Christina, Charles and Sarah (not Lidia), go with this current/new assignement. Lidia-Send to Erin, Marley and Charles I will send to Christina, Charlotte and Kara ~Sorry about all this, we would have been fine if the site admin hadn't stepped in without asking first.

WeBees 01/28/2008 #

Partners for this swap rotation are as follows; some have not changed at all others may have one or more different person assigned.

1.Heather: Christina, Charlotte, Kara 2.Marley: Christina, Charles, Sarah 3.Erin: Lidia, Christina, Sarah 4.Lidia: Erin, Marley, Charles 5.Charlotte: Marley, Erin, Kara 6.Sarah: Heather, Charlotte, Dana 7.Charles: Sarah, Dana, Lidia 8.Christina: Heather, Dana, Lidia 9.Dana: Heather, Charlotte, Kara 10.Kara: Marley, Erin, Charles

Phew, if you sent to anyone other than this list please let me know. If things get screwed up from here and you don't get three set's of 4 blocks (12 total) some might have to be forwarded to straighten this out but we will get it all right and extend the next date as needed. Is this fun yet? Thanks!

smitten 01/28/2008 #

Got it - Thank you!!!

skhsimpson 01/28/2008 #

Thanks for sorting out Heather.

cobaltskystudio 01/28/2008 #

Awesome-Thanks a lot Heather...just what you need on a Monday! This will all work out from here on and we can just use and abuse swap- bot to our benefit... ha ha Marley

WeBees 01/29/2008 #

Hopefully by now you have shipped or are preparing to do so by tomorrow with the delayed confusions. I'm sorry again for all of this but we have sorted it all out. Please be sure to mark your items as sent when you have done so. In the future there should not be these same problems but knowing that people have shipped is extremely helpful in making changes as needed.

cwebb99 01/31/2008 #

i was originally told to send to charles and not marly. i had sent mine to e geagon, kara, and charles on the assigned original send date. i guess charles will have to forwrd mine to marly i guess or what?

magpie 02/ 3/2008 #

Just wanted to confirm all three block sets sent to me (Charles, Sarah, and Christina) have arrived safe and sound. I started working on them last night. I'll try and post scans at some point. -Dana

cobaltskystudio 02/ 3/2008 #

Lidia- Received your blocks today.... Marley Who else sent to me?

WeBees 02/ 4/2008 #

Marley should receive from Lidia, Kara and me. Charlotte, you sent to the right people all should be fine. If you look now at your partners it has been corrected in the system (as of Sunday-hopefully).

You should now be able to see who you sent to and who sent to you-go to rate your partner if you haven't already-you can mark that you recieved your package and give a heart or make a comment if you liked the blocks you received.

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