A few days ago I received a desperate phone call from a long-time quilting student of mine...
She had signed up for a round robin, where each participant provides a centre-piece and then the quilt travels throughout the group with each person adding a border.
Above is the centre started by someone in her group and my friend was to add the first border, which had to be 8 1/2" wide and needed to have triangles.
The measurements of this centre block are a little odd so it was kind of hard to come up with a block pattern that would fit on the sides as well as the top and bottom, and needless to say, it didn't.
And so the phone call... did I know of anyone, anyone at all, that might consider, would think about, could possibly...
So I said yes. And then I found out she owns a winery...
So I was promptly delivered of a centre block, orphan blocks from the first border attempt, a pile of fabrics, and a bottle of red and a bottle of white to set me on my way.
The tulips above are the start of what I am doing and I am about to head off to finish up so as to meet the April 1 deadline.
Round Robins can be a lot of fun and I was thinking it might be fun to do something like that with collage.
Each participant would start a collage, and then within a prescribed group, it would get passed around with each person making a contribution to it before passing it along. When all is said and done, your collage that you started would come back to you to finish and to keep. It's fun to see what other artists would add to your work, and can be very inspiring. I'm thinking four people for each group, with one starting and then the other three adding to it in turn. It wouldn't happen until June though...
What do you think? Any takers?