Stitchin' Sisters Round Robin Update ~ This One is Home!

Katniss says, "You sent this one away?"

Yes, Katniss, this one is not ours.

This is the border I designed for the final border on my friend ...

Cherie's Medallion.

Here is the journey of this beautiful Round Robin ...

1st Border by Debbieann

2nd Border by Tricia

3rd Border by Gina

4th Border by Annette

5th and Final Border by Pat

Closeup of My Border.

There are 56 flowers and 56 leaves in this border

for a total of 128 pieced units in this border.

Butterfly and I sitting with our feet up and relaxing after completing this border.

My Tutorial for this border may be found by clicking HERE

All our borders may be found on our ...

Stitchin' Sister's RR Album Page

My Round Robin is also home!

It is gorgeous!

More Stitchin' Sisters Round Robin updates soon!

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Stitchin' Sisters Round Robin Update

The Stitchin Sister Round Robin quilts are on the move!

This is Annette's gorgeous border on 

Cherie's Round Robin.

"You Should Have Seen It In Color" 

by Jamey Johnson is playing in my personal player. 

Good song.

"A picture paints a thousand words"  but you have to see these Round Robins

 in hand to appreciate all the love that goes into them and

how beautifully unique they are. 

This one is on the way to me!

I will be adding the last border and sending this beauty home.

You can see the pictures of all these RR in progress

Here on our album page.

Cherie is the fearless leader of our RR group 

so her medallion is featured in our button.

Next year we will be doing a Row Robin 

and we have two new sisters joining our group.

Sew exciting!

I have been working on my 4th round border of the one I have now 

and hope to have photos up tomorrow.

Time to get 'er done.

Have a happy quilty day!

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Stitchin' Sisters RR Update

Here is Gina's lovely flower border on Cherie's lovely basket block.

Gina does beautiful applique.

I love the way these bright and happy little flowers dance around the center!

I will be adding the fifth and final border on this beauty in a couple of months.

I already have an idea in the back of my mind for this one

but will need to wait until the next beautiful border is added

and I have received it to see what my quilty muse whispers.

With this border, Round 3 of our Round Robin is complete!

To see all our Round 3 borders and the start of Round 4

Visit Our Album Page Here

Our RR is looking wonderful!

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More Stitchin' Sisters RR Fun

For the 2nd Border on Tricia's Round Robin, Annette set it on point 

creating this big beautiful "Geese in the Air" formation.

The yellow fabric in the triangles is a gorgeous tonal that glows.

I know because this arrived here yesterday for my to add the 3rd border.

I love fall colors and birds so this one will be fun to work on.

I have it pinned up in my sewing area to study it awhile.

I do have a few ideas and consulted with my Stitchin' Sisters.

What would you add for a border?

Any suggestions?

And here is Tricia's border on Cherie's applique basket medallion.

After the eye popping chain and star border that preceded it she wanted to add a simpler border frame.

Here is a closeup of the fabrics and blocks.

This one has two more stops before I will receive it to add the last border.

More Stitchin' Sister Round Robin updates coming soon!

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Stitchin' Sisters Round Robin 2014

 The "Stitchin' Sisters" Round Robin 2014!

A few of my online quilting friends and I are joining together to do a Round Robin swap in 2014.  This is all being done by small email group so that we can stay in touch and share our progress and what is happening in our quilty corners.

This is going to be sew fun!

I have done two previous Round Robins at The Quilt & Needle Forum and I really enjoy helping my friends build my quilt top.  This is the first time I have done a private RR and I am really looking forward to it.  Only one other of my RR friends has a blog so you will be seeing a lot of RR post on my blog next year and I am be setting up this ...

Stitchin' Sisters RR Page

... in my header bar so that we may use it as an album and a reference.

When I post a picture of someone else's medallion or borders, I will be adding a watermark to the photo to credit this quilter's work.  I hope my readers will enjoy seeing our quilts in the making rounds.  Please feel free to leave encouraging words along the way. 

If you have never done a Round Robin and think you would like to set up your own small group RR, leave a comment or send me an email and I will happily let you know how to get started.

Our RR is starting in January, so we are getting our medallions ready now so they will be already to mail after the New Year.

Here are the first two medallion photos I have to share ... 

 This is Cherie's Medallion

I am really looking forward to adding a bright and happy border to this pretty basket block, but my turn will not be for many months as according to our schedule, I will be the last border that is added to the beauty before it goes home.

This is My Medallion

Whenever I am choosing fabrics and a block for one of these year long projects, I have a tough time deciding what I want to make for my medallion as I am not the only one who will be working on this.  

First I decided on the center block.

Last year I made this table runner and blogged about it here.   

I really liked the block pattern and think it is a good RR Medallion

It is from a booklet by Atkinson Designs called Confetti in the Corner.

This block and others in the book are made from smaller units that would make good border ideas for anyone who may feel stumped when they are working on my RR.  

I also thought my friends might be interested in the other patterns.  One of the units is called "Chips and Dip" and there are even a couple of pages of dip recipes in this book.  What quilty fun!

Then I decided on fabrics.  This took longer. I have a nice stash!

 I have had these fabrics for a few years.  

I had 2 and 1/2 yards of this great border print called "Splendor" by Jason Yenter

for In The Beginning fabrics.

I also had a few fat quarters from this line and to this I added some red/tan/cream fat quarters that I think are from an older "French General" line from Moda, but I do not know what the line is as there is no selvage markings on my cuts. The other fabrics are tone on tones.  So it shall hopefully be easy for my RR friends to easily find something in their stashes to use for the borders.

I wanted to add a little more fussy cuts from the border print to the center of my quilt so a set it on point with fussy cut setting triangles and added a red tone-on-tone frame.

I am keeping what is left of the border print to add one last border to my RR when it returns home.

I am enclosing what I have left of the fat quarters and a half-yard of the cream background print to my Round Robin packet so that if anyone wants to use some of it they may.  My friends do not have to use these fabrics.  Whatever fabrics or border idea they want to do will be wonderful.

The beauty of these RR quilts is that they are built round by round by my good quilty friends and each is a unique group fabric work of art.

Thanks to all my Stitchin' Sisters for joining in this RR!

2014 shall be a a good quilty year!

~ <3 ~