Round Robin

I finally finished my Round Robin that my family did a few years ago.

I'm still tying to take better pictures.

I think I'm going to build a rack to hang them on - that might solve the problem.

This is a picture of the front.

I started it with the center square and then sent it to my sister Jeanette from Inchworm Fabrics.

She did the next row of flying geese and then sent it to my mother.

She did the row with the star appliques and then gave it to my sister Beverly from Quilter Corner.

She then sent it to my sister Barbara from Bejeweled Quilts by Barb and she did the stars. 

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Here is a shot of the back.

I've held back on finishing it because I could never find a good match for the last border.

I'm really not crazy about red but that seemed to be the direction this one took.

And it turned out awesome.

 Thank you to my family for doing such an awesome job.

A closer view of the center. 

Some views of the back. 

As you can tell I still need to perfect my camera skills.

 

Here is a picture of how my mother's round robin turned out.

She sent this to me to quilt not long after we finished.

So we must have done this about 5 years ago. 

This was one of the first ones I machine quilted.

This was a lot of fun.

They're doing another one right now with my daughter and a few of my nieces.

I decided not to join in this time. I was always behind on the last one.

With everything that's happened this year I would probably still be on the 1st one.

 

 

 

Design Floor

I do most of my designing on the floor.

I keep thinking about making a design wall but I always end up back on the floor.

Anyway I decided to put together my blocks from Block Swap Adventure.

These blocks have been sitting around for awhile now and I decided to at least put them together - Quilting will come later. I also had a few blocks left from a round robin my family did a few years ago that I never used. I made a couple of extra block and I had enough for a quilt.

The 1st step was placing them and figuring out what to do with them.

I had some left over strips from another quilt that I used in the sashing. 

Used alot of Kona white.

I added the last blue border and called it done. 

It's such a good feeling to get a quilt put together especially a UFO.

Toni's Round Robin

A few years ago we (family members) did a round robin and this is the one my daughter ended up with. She gave it to me to quilt and I thought I would practice on a pantograph. Now that I've done one I can say I don't really care for them. I don't like working from the back side of the machine. Maybe later it might be more fun.
Now I need to bind it and it will be finished. I'll just put it in my to-do stack for later.

I had the worst time with the tension. I was ready to just take it out and say forget it and then I decided to change the bobbin. Amazing what something simple like that will do. No more pre-wound bobbins for me. It works so much better winding my own. I had read somewhere not to use the pre-wounds and now I know why.

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