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Old 03-06-2010, 10:27 AM
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Very beautiful. All of you are just soooooo talented
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Old 03-06-2010, 11:57 AM
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That is beautiful. Love the outside border.
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Old 03-06-2010, 12:13 PM
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Wow!!! It is beautiful and so nicely done.
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Old 03-06-2010, 01:28 PM
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You're so right! The scallops made an already beautiful quilt more beautiful!
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Old 03-06-2010, 02:46 PM
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Thank you everyone for all of the wonderful comments you've made on my round robin quilt. Although I've tried to reply to everyone, I have probably managed to miss some - a bit of short term memory issues here and don't want to annoy by forgetting and thanking someone 3 times when one is enough. Thank you for taking a peek. Attaching a photo of it on display on the back of the sofa in our living room and it really enhances the living room. We went with neutral colors so I could display my works in progress as they live on the back of the sofa or love seat when I'm not working on them.
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Old 03-06-2010, 06:07 PM
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Very Pretty!!!
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Old 03-06-2010, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by grammypatty7
This was started fall 09 and I finished handquilting it about 3 weeks ago and decided it was time to photograph and share it. For those unfamiliar with a Round Robin, it's a fun exchange quilt. Groups were set up in my quilt chapter with 4 and 5 people. There were 5 in my group. Each of us made the center square and could add in fabric if we wished and I did include some with they used here and there to tie the quilt together. After completing our squares, we exchanged with the next person on the list who added a border to enhance the quilt. Since I had no restrictions, each did their own thing and I love the end results of this quilt.
1st. border is the tiny block border.
2nd border is a floral hand pieced applique
3rd border is the pretty zig zag made by our only male guild member and he is one awesome sewer.
4th border was done by a machine embroiderer who just bought a new machine and wanted to use it on our borders so she put the pretty little flower on the corners using a bit of my included fabric. That's how it was when I got it back. Before leaving the meeting that night I knew I had to add the scalloped border to it and am glad I did as it just finishes the quilt. One of the ladies in our group was so thrilled with hers tht she's enlarging it to fit a king sized bed. A round robin gives you a good start on whatever you want to do with it from a wall hanger to a throw or enlarge it out to make it to fit a bed. The really fun thing about a round robin is that there are techniques on here that I would never have thought to add to a quilt. Initially I planned to use it as a wall hanging in one of our bedrooms but it's a bit too large so it is a throw and is on our living room sofa where in enhances the decore of the room.
Photo of tag made by the lady with the embroidery machine for all of us to put on our finished quilts.
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wow that is gorgeous, just beautiful. thank you for sharing. Penny
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wow.... nice.... so calming and serene.
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Old 03-07-2010, 08:49 AM
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Patterns for the scalloped border are attached as a few have asked for it. This border was used on my very first hand pieced, hand quilted queen size quilt sampler which is now worn out beyond repair from 10 years of daily use on our bed with a group of daycare children crawling on it. The border on this Round Robin is the third time I've used this border and it's an easy one to work with but a key is to use a narrow bias binding when you bind it off. I think I cut a 1 inch strip to do the binding and did it the traditional way - machine sew to the top, fold over and hand stitch on the back and it couldn't have come out better. This pattern was in one of my quilting magazines way back then. The ones I've seen since are different. I believe you can purchase plastic templates for this at the quilt shops and I'm pretty sure I've seen them in the template area at JoAnn's but I just use the ones I made with this pattern. Good luck. If you do use this, please share with us. It really does dress up a quilt.
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Thank you sooo much Patty! I think your quilt is beautiful and the Scallop Edge just finished it perfectly! Very much appreciated!!!
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