Swap Team event 1- Reflections

Heya,

This is Dr M V Pratyusha from Pratvam Progs.

Creativity knows no bounds and when you are surrounded by more than 2000 people with similar interests, brain starts working overtime to keep the whole group active and thus came the idea of  'The Swap Team Event-1'.

This post will give you a brief outline as to what we did for the first ever Swap event at PQJ. And also give you a sneak peak into 'The Swap Team Event 2' that is going to start in a few days!!!

So here it is...

It all started on 11 April as a simple post on PQJ group on Facebook asking if people were ready to work with other fellow quilling artists and create 2 pairs of earrings for each other after having a month to interact with them. And I ended up with more than 40 people who were willing to give this a try.

On 12th April each quiller was randomly assigned a partner to work with. They had a month's time from 13th April to 13th june to talk to their partner's, to get to know them better in terms of how they began Quilling or how they do a certain technique. They could even ask their partners likes and dislikes.

 Now as it was a swap team event and the 1st one to happen, the rules were pretty simple...make 2pairs of earrings- 1 according to your partners wishes and one according to ur wish which was supposed to be a surprise for the partner...
And yes we had deadlines too...
The sneak peaks were supposed to be up from 27 april and the couriers were to be sent out to their partners by 9 June  so that everyone would get their pair by 13 June... Once the partner had the earrings they took pictures of what their counterpart sent them and Had to post them on the event that was created on fb for this whole event...
We had more than 20 teams... So will be sharing a few of the pics of the participants of this swap...
We also had a few international artists who participated... They were paired with international artists itself keeping in mind the courier rates :)

The pics that follow are collages of creations of each team... as there were more than 40 teams I am sharing only a few of the pics so that you can get an idea... to see all the pics pls click here to be redirected to the group on Fb. :)

Wafa And Rushruma

Naimisha and Trupti Pawar More

Aparna Balakrishna and Swetha Ramachandran

Gopika And Preethi

Janani S Sitara and Dr M V Pratyusha

Neha Jain and Darshita Bharadia

Subhashree Natarajan and Lakshmi Baskar

Aishwarya and Sri Harika

Kavitha and Vibha Bisht

Shruti and Minal

Shama Nishad and Swarna

Aiswarya S and Uma V.S.

The main motto behind this event was to increase the interaction between fellow quillers. The one month long time that each team got was a awesome experience for each participant as they also found cool friends!!!

Did this whole idea seem too cool to be true... Then do wait up till this weekend. I will be uploading the details of 'The Swap Team Event-2'

As this event will be on the blog and not on Fb as a whole more people who are not on Fb can also participate. If you are excited do give us a shout out!!!

Love of love and huge

Pratyusha

PS- Pls note the change in the name of the blog from Paper Quilling Jewelry to Paper Quilling Journal. This step was taken as we didn't want to limit the creativity of this beautiful art by restricting ourselves to showcase only jewelry... So here's to a wider range of possibilities. The Fb group still remains as Paper quilling Jewelry incase you would like to join in.