Firebird Round Robin
Kathleen Grover participated in a round robin during 1996. Each participant chose a ballet theme for her quilt and Kathleen chose Firebird.
Two participants in the round robin group never received their quilt back and apparently both were kept by the same person.
Multiple emails and letters were sent in an attempt to recover this quilt, but she never responded.
The main "block" which Kathleen did was that of a bird rising above the flames. The bird was made of red marbleized fabric with edges and detailing in gold thread. The background was hand dyed purple streaky fabric. The original sketch and scraps of fabric that she used are shown to the right.
Along with the quilt top was a disposable camera, about $150 worth of fabric to be used by the other participants, and a tape of the musical score to Firebird.
The quilt was last sent to Washington DC / Maryland metropolitan area.
Kathleen says, "It is really awful when something like this happens to you -- I had dutifully worked on HER quilt top, which she received. This has made me very leery of getting into these round robin things...A note on the quality of the workmanship -- some of the same group of women did a round robin with an Opera theme, and an article was published on them in the AQS magazine."
If you have any information on a quilt with a block that fits the description of this Firebird, please contact Kathleen at [email protected].
Posted July 14, 2000.
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