Round robin quilt ideas patterns

Yesterday we had our first Monday Modern meeting of the year and those of us who had participated in the round robin received our completed minis back from the person who had done the quilting and binding. I had Louise's quilt for the final round. I am not a confident quilter so I aimed for 'tidy' rather than anything more ambitious. Louise's was one of the larger minis at approximately 34" square, so quite a nice size for a baby quilt or pram quilt. With this in mind, I thought I would…

What a day I had yesterday! I headed to New Glasgow to meet up with fellow members of the Nova Scotia Quilt Bloggers Quartet (NSQBQ) to do the exchange with them of our Round-Robin Challenge Quilts. M

During the past year, I've worked on six different round robin quilts of varied styles, colors and fabrics in addition to sending my center square off. It was a challenge to keep them secret for so long, but I did. Last week was the Dear Jane Fall Retreat in Shipshewana where the quilts were returned to their owners. Here are the finished tops from our group of seven that included three MI, one WI and three IN quilters. This is the first quilt I received. When I saw all of those colors, I…

As promised, here are some better photos of the borders added to my snowflake round robin centre. Reading through the notes the girls wrote as they sewed, it seems I gave them quite a challenge! I didn't mean to make it so difficult, but they certainly rose to the challenge well anyway! First Helen added a pieced border using blocks of her own design to echo the crystalline features of the centre and snailtrail corners, all in beautiful sparkly fabrics: Next AJ added snow-capped mountains in…

The Sunday Sew & Sews are doing a Round Robin project right now. Eight quilters are in two groups of four. Each made her own center block, 12"-16" or so. She put it in a tote bag, along with several fabrics of hers that work well with her center. Each month, the totes are passed on the the next person in the group to add a border. After three people have added borders to the center, the quilt will be returned to the owner to do with as she pleases. It's a good way to use colors/fabrics you…

Round robin quilt with center block with pinwheel block, checkerboard block and flying geese

Two of the Round Robin quilts being made in the Sunday Sew and Sews are now complete. Meaning, they will be returned to their owner and she can decide if it is done or is worthy of more borders. One is mine and I love it! It's 42" square at the moment: I began with the 12" Rising Sun variation, with the navy blue frame around it. The next person added the four-patch borders. The next person went all out with the applique' borders--I LOVE the sweet birds. The last person to work on it added…

Ok..... this quilt is turning out totally wonderful!!! I am sooo excited to share what I came up with for this row. And, for some reason we skipped a pattern. Did anyone else notice that? The patterns are usually going out every other monday...but there was a jump in dates. Sometimes I totally wonder where my brain is! I know, it's behind my eyes.....but clearly it wasn't on while looking at calendar dates. Enough about the brain....let's get on with the totally cute row!

This is a great way to make quilting social and expand your creativity!

I've just finished the second round of the Traveling Quilts round robin. Monica sent me a rainbow star block along with an embroidered travel-themed quote. My task was to add something to the block, then pass it on to the next person. I puzzled for a while about what to do. Monica's block is a bit out of my comfort zone. There's a rainbow, and I get the hives every time I try to work with white. I decided it was time to do one of those things I always wanted to do, but could never find an…