CAUTION MAC USERS: YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO JOIN THIS SWAP UNLESS YOU CAN FIND A MAC PROGRAM THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO PRINT THE PATTERNS THE RIGHT SIZE!
Swap name: Frankenteady
Craftster member who is organizing this swap: Rosemary
Sign-up date range: 30 Jan – 21 Feb
Date to send item by: 22 Feb – 1 March
Limited to a certain number of people? (optional): NO
Restricted to people who all live in the same country? NO
If so, which country?
All ages allowed? Or 18+? All ages
Swap Organizer himself/herself meets these conditions:
- Has fully read the Swap Info Guide: YES
- Has successfully completed two swaps as a participant: YES
- Is not organizing more than three swaps right now: YES
- Will recruit a co-organizer or give all details to a Swap Moderator if this swap has more than 25 participants: YES
Swap Organizer will check each participant to make sure they meet these conditions:
- Has been a member for at least one month: YES
- Has posted at least 15 times: YES
- Has completed one swap successfully before signing up for multiple swaps at a time: YES
- Is not currently signed up for more than five swaps: YES
- Does not have any negative feedback: YES
Details of swap:
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See post 1.
If you want to participate, information to send to organizer:
QUESTIONNAIRE TO ANSWER:
Name of swap: Frankenteady swap.
Craftster username
Email address
Your real name
Mailing address including the country
Would you be willing to ship to an address outside your own country?
Do you want one or two bears?
What sizes?
If two of the same size do you want to be in the same or different groups for each bear?
(being in the same team will save on postage and both bears will be made of the same kind of fabric from the same people, if in different groups they will have different fabric.)
If making more than one bear do you promise to use different fabric for each bear?
And do you promise to send on time knowing you only have a week from the close of the sign up period?
(you can cut the parts ready to send before the sign up period closes)
IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE, REMEMBER TO SEND YOUR INFO TO ORGANIZER VIA PRIVATE MESSAGE AND NOT TO REPLY WITH IT HERE.
Also remember to read the
Swap Info Guide to find out how to ship your item and other details about participating in a swap.
AFTER PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED UP AND BEEN APPROVED, LIST THE PARTICIPANTS HERE AND WHO IS SENDING TO WHOM:
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Q&ATricot!
Because the question will be asked.
I asked my mummy (Go Mummys! Yay!) and she said that Tricot is a kind of stretchy t-shirt fabric that isn’t quite as stretchy as most t-shirt fabrics these days. I made my test bear entirely out of two dollar a meter flannel and he turned out fine and/or dandy so I don’t think the tricot is necessary and I won’t be requiring it.
Marking the partern.
On peices such as the leg it will ask you to cut four peices reversing two. That is simple enough, just fold the fabric so two of the pattern peices are reversed and you don't have four left sides of the leg.
To prevent you from sending the wrong pattern side to the wrong person I ask that you mark the peices with up or down.
After you cut the peices the bits that are right side up are marked up and the bits that are right side down are marked down.
Let me know if you have any troubles.
EXAMPLE PICHow many bears do you cut?
Cut out one if you want one but cut two if you want two.
the peices you send out will be the same peices you recieve from the other members in your group,
Dc Numbers.
Not required. But please do snap a photo of your peices before you send them out, and if any of your peices don't make it to your group members then please send them a sorry card.
People should keep the printed versions of their pattern so they can swap angel themselves if you get sent the wrong peice, go missing etc. Also incase after you have recieved your bear peices you think a peice compleatly clashes with the other peices or you just think it needs a little bit more dark in it you can replace the peices that don't look right.
I wonder though, would it be possible to try to theme the fabrics just a little? I know my son wouldn't be too keen on having a pink girly bear... Maybe we could list one or two colors that we'd like to avoid?
Sorry darlin, but teams and swap partners won't be asigned till a week before the send date and I don't think that would really be enough time for anybody to go and get special fabrics because you don't have what someone wants. Plus I lived in a town where the local fabric shop sucked and the nearst decent one was three hours drive away, so I wanted to make this swap accesable by anyone by using stash fabric.
(we ALL have fabric in our stash we think is fantastic but havn't found a project to use it with so I believe the fabrics and bears will be great)
Please use unisex fabric as much as possible.
Can I use different fabric for each peice?
Yes!
did i miss reading where I get the pattern ?
It is on the first post. There is a text link to my mothers website, knowing me it probibly has the word HERE that you can click on or something.
Right click, save, open in paint, print.
I want to join this swap but I'm having trouble figuring out the sizing. Here's where I run into trouble:
Check the size of your printed piece. If you measure along the grain line arrow you should reach the following measurements
*measure along grain line*
These measurements are for the small bear, the large is twice that.
Face: S 11cm - 4 ¼ in
Inner arm: S 14cm - 5 ½ in
Body: S 16.75cm - 6 ½ in
Leg: S 16.5cm – 6 ½ in
Does this mean the grain line arrow should be the size mentioned or does it mean we should lay our ruler along the grain line arrow and the entire piece should be this size?
oooohhh!
Bad me!
You pm'ed me that question and I was going to answer it, but I wanted to finish accepting join requests first and then I just sorta forgot to go back through my inbox to answer.
You measure along the grain line from the cut line (the thick black line on the outside) to the cut line.
The only reason I chose the grain line to be the place to measure was because every peice had one.
Let me see if I got this right, this is like a circle group, you cut out everything and mail it to one person, they pick a piece and sew it, then put their sewn piece and the rest of the pattern, and mail it to the next person, and they sew one of the pieces, and so on
Or we just mail a piece to each person, and they each mail it back and we put it together ourself?
I will organise people into a group of five if I could
Person A
Person B
Person C
Person D
Person E
You cut enough pieces to make an entire teady bear and put them in envelopes. I will organise what goes in the envelopes soon as I know for SURE how many bears will be in the swap. You will receive that info along with the addresses of everybody in your team after the sign up closes.
envelope 1
envelope 2
envelope 3
envelope 4
envelope 5
Person A keeps envelope 1
sends envelope 2 to B
3 to C
4 to D
5 to E
Person B keeps envelope 1
Sends envelope 2 to C
3 to D
4 to E
5 to A
etc.
If somebody wants two bears they will then become person B and C so you will be sending them twice as many pieces and be receiving twice as many pieces from them.
The pieces you send out will be the same as the pieces you receive so you will get one entire bear ready for you to sew and stuff yourself.
