"creative swaps" - 5 new articles
saying helloI feel badly there has been no art or swaps here for quite some time now. We are still working on selling our home and it is hard in this market when you do not have a cookie-cutter house! But we are persevering, have dropped the price, have an Open House this Sunday, October 25th, from 12-2pm and we have been having showings as well. So there is hope. I so want to join my mom and dad in Florida. My dad recently had a PET scan to see how his liver cancer is doing and his Dr just told him, "Good news on PET/CT. Significantly improved. The damn stuff is working." - he is talking about xelota - the chemo my dad is doing. Dad has also done radiation.
yours creatively, Lenna Andrews  Following up on the Shades of Spring Quiltie SwapRose Momsen, one of my swap participants sent me the following photos & descriptions:
Wow! I asked if she would mind writing a few sentences to share with us about her photos, and she did. Thank you so much, Rose! More on how she completed this project below all the photos. " Top view of the fatbook. Calgary artist Anne St. Louis' page with ribbon tags can be seen reaching up."
"View of fatbook sitting open. It's a bit floppy to display like this, but you can see a bit of my spring landscape page this way." 
"South Dakotan Sue Lee's page on the left says, "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'" And Martha Franklin, from Virginia did the dot ribbon framed, heart button leaved page on the right."
"Beverley Teichrob from Victoria, BC did the page on the left (her front was a wonderful felt nest in a tree), and Sara Ellen Davis from Tennessee did the page on the right, with a vintage pin of a turquoise owl in the upper left corner."
Thanks again to everyone who participated! My book has pages from Kate North, Beverley Teichrob, Saraellen Davis, Lisa Mallette (Florida), Joellyn Quinn (Wisconsin), Anne St. Louis, Sue Lee, Martha Franklin, myself, and Dawn Sellers (Oregon)."
"It was great fun to participate in my first "Lenna Swap", the Robin's Egg Blue and Brown Spring Quilties from 2008. I knew I wanted to make a fabric fatbook out of mine, so I sent in two different sets of little quilts, kept one each of my pages, and swapped with the friend who got me to join, too, so I wound up with 12 pages for my book. I played with the page order for a long time, and then sewed the twelve pages together into a signature with a line of chain stitching across them in three places: top, middle, and bottom. I made a cover "envelope style" by piecing handdyed blue fabrics backed with interfacing, and found a great brown/black Lonni Rossi print for the book's spine. I slipped heavyweight coverstock paper into the front and back before assembling the cover, to give the book some body. The cover's seam allowances are hidden inside the spine opening by hand whip stitching the signature over them, securing the pages to the book. There's a slit for a pocket in the inside back cover where I put copies of the emails and the directions for the swap. Here are pictures and comments. Thanks everyone who participated! Rose Momsen, Point Roberts, WA - geonrose@pointroberts.net" ~ Now, if anyone one else out there has also completed projects, or does finish projects using art from our previous swaps that you would like to share here, please email me. It would be fun to share what you have done with the rest of the viewers, especially as creative swaps are on hiatus now, and this blog is otherwise quiet. Thanks! yours creatively, Lenna Andrews  Hello! Remember the Alice in Wonderland ATC swap? (Alpha Stamps)
On a personal note, since I have not been in touch for a while -- things are fine here with Steven & I in Connecticut. Our home has been on the market for just about 5 weeks now and we are getting a lot of interest, we've had a couple of Open Houses with good attendance and quite a number of showings. We are just waiting for an offer : ) and we simply need the right person to come along, so I am trying my best to be patient!! My dad has finished his radiation treatment on both lobes of his liver and he is still in remission. He has a gal bladder procedure to go through and is going through stress tests now to see if the time is right. I am looking at a few possibilities as far as homes near my parents, but we are not falling in love with anything until our home here in CT sells! Things are definitely quieter with no swaps to run or classes to teach, but I am keeping busy with moving preparations (mostly boring cleaning out!) and I have been creating a bit of art lately, which has been fun & kept my spirits up. I cannot promise anything as far as creative swaps is concerned because everything is up in the air too much, but know without a doubt that I miss you all! yours creatively, Lenna Andrews  . . . from lennaEven though I am not currently hosting a swap, I am trying to feature your 12x12 quilts from our most recent swap on the home page in a rotating fashion. yours creatively, Lenna Andrews  Canceling the Canvas SwapI'm so sorry to write tonight and let you know that I am canceling the last swap I had scheduled -- The 3 for 3 collage on canvas swap due in June. I had 14 participants register already and I will be refunding their registration payment via PayPal later tonight, as soon as I send this message to the blog! One participant has already sent in her canvases, and I will be mailing those back to you tomorrow, Martha.
yours creatively, Lenna Andrews  More Recent Articles
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