Stitchin' Sisters RR Update

My Stitchin' Sisters have been stitchin' again!

Here are the newest photos of our Round Robin quilts in progress.

Above is Tricia's lovely snowball border on my round robin.  

My round robin is looking wonderful!

Looking forward to seeing this beauty come home in a few months.

I am thinking this will make a great winter bed quilt for me.

I have always wanted a bed quilt in these colors.

Tricia has given me the idea that all of our stitchin' sisters
should show their pretty faces with one of theses borders, too.

Smile for the camera, my stitchin' sisters ... :)

Tricia blogged about this and her other quilty projects on her blog:

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Here is Tricia's own RR in the works ...

I sent this one to Cherie less than two weeks ago.

Cherie's speedy stitchin' had a new border on this beauty in no time.

I love the way Cherie took this photo outside in the sun.

The birdies perched on the clothesline .makes me smile ... :)

To see all our lovely Round Robins In Progress
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I now have this beauty on my design wall.

I have a plan.

I am gathering fabrics.

I hope to have a border on this by the end of the week ... 

or maybe the week after ... 

I am one of the slower stitchin' sisters. 

... just keep sewing ...

:)

Stitchin' Sisters RR ~ TC and the Medallion

"TC and the Medallion"

Debbieann has named her quilt!

I love the way these little stars make this medallion shine.

Annette added the 3rd border to Debbieann's Round Robin 

and before she settled on these wonderfully twinkly little staggered stars, 

she auditioned this block and she is sending it along home so Debbieann can piece it into the back of her quilt ...

Tuxedo Cat Block

from the book 

The Cat's Meow by Janet Kime

This is a great block!

I especially love the little white feet.

The Butterfly wants me to make on just like her.  I shall have to put a white nose with a black butterfly spot on the nose when I make her block.

But first I must think, think, think ...

because Debbieann's beautiful round robin is on the way to me next!

I think I have an idea!

Finding the right fabrics in my stash may be a challenge.

Might have to do a little shopping for this one.

What fun!

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Enjoy!

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 ~