round/row robins
 

Is anyone doing any round/row robins anymore?

I would love to do another round robin. I really enjoyed the creative challenge I got when I was in the IRR III.

Let me know if one is started. I am most interested in a row robin. Maybe one with a central host that we send 12 1/2 inch x 60 1/2 inch(five 12 1/2 inch blocks sewn together) rows to. This would avoid rows getting lost or stuck. Maybe if we get 5 people interested we can do it.

This was the one Row robin I was in some years ago.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/member-...a-t200778.html

The top row was the row I started with and then 4 other swappers added. I am currently putting these row together and just added brown sashing, some more embellishments, and am adding a border of small flying geese and maybe a narrow inner border.

Here are the other row robins in that particular swap.

I think I do not have a completed picture of the one with the sewing machines.
As you can see they all came out really nice and they all had very different themes. also some people send extra fabric to work with, others a label they wanted signed and the one with the sewing machines gave the option of adding completed blocks with sewing machines to the row. It was my first such swap.

s anyone doing any round/row robins anymore?
 

I would be interested in participating in a round/row robin as well. The one in 2012 was fun.

I hope someone does start this. I would love to do a row robin.

A row robin sounds like fun! Anna-great ideas and rows!

I love the show & tell row quilts. They look like a lot of fun! I'd be interested.

Well, I just stumbled across this one and would be interested, too :o Anna, I love the pictures you shared on prior Round Row Robins!!

It looks like there is enough interest to do a row robin...just need to find a fearless leader.

here is my Christmas RR from a few years ago.

I have been waiting for one of these to start forever, looks like plenty of interest.
how soon can we start ��������

Well Anna, I remember those tows, I worked on them. LOL Mine are all done as well. I have no photos handy, but this could be something I could participate in.

I will be following this one too

I was a leader in a couple of these row robins if you would like me to take the lead.

I'd lead too- if needed....

How does it work for a row robin?

If you have 5 people would you each do your own "first" row, post that photo and then the others each make a coordinating row? 5 @ 12.5" blocks for your starter row and then a total of 20 other 12.5" blocks (4 groups of 5) for the the other robin members?

If so, I'd be interested. I wouldn't want to do more than 5 in a group though depending on the time frame....if they all went to one central hostess instead of mailing them all over....

Please let me know if you try to start a row robin if you would.

thanks
Lisa

Lisa, if they went to one central hostess, doesent that mean they would have to be mailed twice, once to her and then to the person adding the next row?
i have never done one so dont know how it works. Doing it that way, does it mean that the rows are not sewn together?

I am glad to see some board members with previous swap hosting g experience, qutermomma and mariposa, are considering hosting. Just let me know if,when, and how.

Stephanie:


I'm not sure how they do it. I would like to arrange them myself I guess. It's much less postage to send them to one set place and then they mail them back to you when they have all been received.

After being in the Boomerang swaps I found I did like sending them all to the hostess prior to the deadline and then received everything back at once. You could post your picture of your row and each person would post pictures of the rows they make for you. The hostess would have an album so the rows would be in one place to view.

This way you only have the postage of sending all of rows you make to the hostess as well as sending the money to cover the cost of her mailing your rows to you. 2 x $7 for the flat rate vs $? to 20 mailings.

That's why I wondered how it was done for a "row" robin. I understand that a "round" robin couldn't work this way but a "row" could.

I would love to do another Round robin. I think the best option is to send us the person that we mail to. I'm sorry but I don't think we need to make more work for the organizer, we shouldn't have to mail to them to mail it out again... we are adults and should be able to handle mailing it out only once. not to mention I'm international.... it would cost me SO much more to do it the way you are suggesting

There are pros and cons to both sides of how to move the rows along. It is important to be sure that you mail your row on time and to the person it has to go to. On one row robin I was in, someone did not send the rows on and a person was without her quilt. I do not want that to happen if I took this upon myself. The other one I did everyone was so efficient on their mailings. Downside, in one package, three rows were lost in the mail and they had to be redone. That was heart breaking. So there is no perfect way.
Let me get my notes together and visit with Mariposa. If we get 10 participants, we can do two at the same time. That is five in each group.

In the mean time, be thinking of a theme you would like your quilt, whether sewing, circles, a bookcase, colors, ocean themed, flower wall, etc.

I have two thoughts about this. Firstly I agree that it probably would be cheaper to mail to one location and then have the complete set of rows mailed back to us at the end.
My second thought is if we dont get the previous rows, it will be much harder to match up colours etc, i know we can see a photo but the colours dont always show true.

Agreed Stephanie.

I haven't ever done a row robin - just a couple round robins. One didn't go so good. It would be good to know someone's track record in swapping, meeting obligations, etc.
If the colors were not too specific, it could work. Patriotic, Autumn, etc.
Another possibility would to send out color samples to the four who would be adding a row at a price of a stamp.

I would love to join in. Unfortunately I was one of those unlucky folks who never received my round robin back. Still worth taking the plunge.

Wow, may come up with another idea of how to handle rows. There are 14 thus far who are interested.
Some things to ponder:
Will be an 8 month committment
Can be approximately $56 in postage plus more because of Canada participants
Creativity and accuracy are important
Fabric from stash be used as much as possible
Potential of not getting quilt back
Must communicate fluently with members

These are just the toppers that come to play. It truly breaks my heart when people do not stay with their commitment. That is what this is, a large commitment.

I'm game for either option regarding mailing. I also like the option of being able to arrange the rows in the order wanted.
I'd also prefer to have a total of 7 rows but if we don't get that many interested I can always add a couple more myself.

I would be interested in this too. I have only participated in 2 round robins and enjoyed the process of both.

Yes this on the colors, send out samples or stick to a theme color scheme.

Both methods have their pros & cons ... but, I'm flexible. I think perhaps the leader(s) should have the final say as to which way we should embark :rolleyes:. Looks like we should put on our thinking caps as to "themes" . . . the fun will be narrowing it down to one theme or even have a "sampler" quilt - have everyone make their favorite quilt block or theme. Just a thought . . .

I would also like to be included I will keep coming back to see if someone steps up and becomes the Hostess and her rules....

This could be a good avenue to go by. Fell asleep last night so did not look thru my information, So sorry. Will get on it hopefully tonight. I see two more are interested. That gives us 16.

Is it possible to send all our finished rows to our leader at a specified time with return postage included. that would mean only two mailings - one to leader and one back to us. Of course that would mean we will have to wait until the end. But at least we wouldn't loose an entire quilt. If someone doesn't come thru - they don't get the rows made for them. Similar to the Boomerangs now - I love watching each block being added to the gallery. With posting of each row we can all see the quilt come together which will give us ideas on how to continue.
Will we each make our own row first?

I think I'm going with a theme of bookcase/bookshelf or jars.

I like this idea but I agree that we should leave it to the leaders.

This is what I was trying to say earlier, lol.

Mailing our partners a color swatch would be good too and would only cost a little bit to add that step.

Saving over $40 in postage sounds great to me.

Waiting to see what the rules will be before I throw my hat officially into the ring.

I'm sorry but if this is the route we end up going with it would end up costing me even more. I understand some of you have been burned before but why aren't we trusting that we can mail it ourselves to the next person?

I would also like to add it would make sense to send to the organizer when it is a block swap and your doing so many of the exact same thing but these are all completely different and over a MUCH longer period of time. So now you are expecting people to keep rows for months at a time and not loose them or have something else happen to them.

Mariposa is doing some checking with the proper channels on this. Hang tough. Thinking her and I will be able to make everyone happy.

Thanks to both if you fir taking the lead role... I can help if needed.