About 3 years ago the Thursday quilt group decided they need to make me a “Round Robin” quilt.
First, a general description of a traditional “round robin” quilts for those who may not have heard of them. It’s a quilt that is made by a group of quilters and it’s a variation of doing friendship blocks. To start, everyone makes a block for the centre. There can be all kinds of rules for size, colour, theme, etc. The blocks are passed to someone else in the group. They add the first border. Then the next quilter adds the second. This usually continues until each member in the group has added a border. The quilter who made the centre block then gets the quilt top back to keep and finish. The basic lay out of the quilt is a “medallion”.
My Round robin had 7 makers including myself, made up as follows the centre was – 14½”, 1st – 2”, 2nd – 3½”, 3rd – 6”, 4th – 3½”, 5th – 2”, 6th – 6”. Finished size of the quilt is 60” x 60”. My centre block was inspired by Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins from Piece O’ Cake Way, The New Appliqué Sampler. I provided all the fabric I wanted to be used in the quilt.
Now I am the proud owner of this wonderful quilt. I have started with the quilting. After pinning the 3 layers together I “stitched in the ditch” and free motion outlined all the appliqué areas. I’m now busy hand quilting the centre piece using DMC Perle 8 thread using a number 9 quilting needle. It’s a bit of a bugger as the needle eye is a bit small!
Hope to quilt a bit this Easter weekend!
Happy Easter to you all!
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NikkiM
Buzy Day 
I love the idea of a Round Robin quilt. I think a group project such as this is great fun because you never know how it will finish up. Your Round Robin looks lovely.
Thanks Lucie!
My group is about to start our first round robin. I have started making a few test pieces for my centre.
I love your centre block, but mine will not be as fancy!
You to kind! I really enjoyed working on all the different quilts!
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Nikki
Not being part of a quilting group I’ve never heard of this but think its a lovely idea. I love the concept that each person can add their own individual spin on things yet still be working with the same fabrics. It looks great. I know you will treasure this.
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Nikki
This is gorgeous! You must be so pleased to have this work of art. Is that outer tiny-squares border really made out of tiny squares?! It really works so well to bring the flower color out without detracting from the appliqué. Love it!
Thanks for you lovely comment!
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Nikki
That’s gorgeous – both in thought and in product! Happy Easter!
Same to you! Thanks for your lovely comment!
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Nikki
looks so gorgeous! 🙂
Thank you!
Looks beautiful
Thank you!
Wish I could like it about five time, that would be the sum of how pretty it is.
You too kind! Thank you!
Beautiful work, thank you for sharing, a treasure to keep for sure!
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Nikki
That is a gorgeous quilt, especially the checkerboard border! That is a lot of squares!
Thank you!
Beautiful! Love the idea of those types of quilts. A number of years ago I belonged to a guild and a few of us did something similar but it was a row quilt. We each provided one fabric that had to be used in each row but as we did a row for someone we provided the rest of the fabric based on what we had in our scraps. Each row was four 4″ finished blocks. It was fun to see what ideas everyone came up with!
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Nikki
Great work. It’s beautiful!
Thank you!
Cherish the time that your friends put into making this quilt. It is not easy to get people to drop what they are doing and share of themselves with you. As the saying goes, the best present that one can give you, is their time. Beautiful quilt.
You so right! That’s why I love hand made item! It’s the best way to say you love someone!
You stopped by my place so I had to stop by and visit yours. Good thing too. I think I can learn a few things from you. At least stay inspired to keep at it. I’m a novice and my new quilt group doesn’t seem interested in helping me get better. I’m going to keep looking for a new group. I love chocolate too but it has a very loud voice so I keep it out of the house for now. I loved all the projects you’ve made. Yes, I looked at quite a few of your blogs. Consider them “liked”. Now I’ll have to find your follow button. 🙂
Thanks for your lovely comment and for visiting my blog! You too kind!
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Nikki