Row Robin Swap

I've been waiting for a long time to post about this swap. This was the first swap I ever joined. The sign-ups for it closed way back on February 28, 2009. I am terribly disappointed with the way it ended up.

Things were sailing along smoothly until after the first send out date, our swap mama had to drop out because of some health issues. Understandable.

That's when everything fell apart. One lady in the swap held onto each row she got for months. Yes, I said months. The deadlines were supposed to be every 6 weeks. How nice is that? Not.

Another of the swappers in my group had her father pass away. She told us she was going to get back into things shortly. That was six months ago.

The whole swap was supposed to be done back in November. It's now April. I still haven't got any rows back. In fact, I don't think any have been added. That's nice, because the lady who has been holding things up the entire swap just got a complete set of rows back. Isn't that nice?

I didn't even take photos of the row I did for her. It's been sitting on my desk for about 3 months waiting to be mailed out to her. We decided to hold it hostage in hopes of getting everyone else's rows back. I'm now wishing I hadn't done one for her at all.

I had high hopes for this swap. Do you remember my first wizard of oz row? Well, I'm pretty sure that even though it sat with Lady #1 for six months to be sent off to Lady #2 for an additional six months, it's still a single row. Isn't that a bum deal?

Anyway... it's over. Hopefully, our rows are on their way home. I hope Lady #1 enjoys her full set of rows enough for all of our group. She's the only one getting a full set back. Unless, of course I'm completely wrong and those two actually made rows for everyone else and were just holding them hostage, but I really doubt that's the case.

Row Robin - Alphabet Row

This is the second row I had to work on for this round of the Row Robin Swap.

It is for Sudi-Laura. Her two-year old son loves letters and numbers and this quilt will be for him.

The first row got lost somewhere along the way, so our group has moved forward without it. Valerie did the row for F-J. Mine is the row K-P

I tried to choose a fabric that had something to either 1: do with the letter it was creating or 2: had an image of something that started with the letter in it.

"K" is for Kites.

"L" is for Lettuce Green.

"M" is for Motorized Martians.

"N" is for Numbers.

"O" is for Ocean. Initially I had chosen this fabric because I thought it had an octopus to find out that, oops! That's a squid!

"P" is for Puppies.

Row Robin Swap - Stashbuster Row

So, even with a few twists in the initial plot, the row robin swap I joined several months ago continues.

This last round of the swap I had two sets of rows to work on. The first was a row for Darlene. She chose to have a "Stashbuster" quilt made in the swap.


Her initial row was lost in the mail, so we continued without it. I believe the first row was done by Sudi-Laura. The one in the middle is the one I made. The one on the right is the one Valerie made.

Darlene, I hope you enjoy the row I did for you. I think the colors help to pull the two rows that went before me together.