On-going EQ Round Robins (Page 9)

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Carol 's Center

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Diane's Center

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Michelle's Center

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Irene's Center

I love blocks that will have a secondary design in them when put together. I also love points and the crispness of the blocks. Stars are one of my favorite things in quilts. Hope you like it. - Carol

I enjoyed working on your center Carol and wanted to try and have the last border tie it all together. I used a similar star as your center for to focal point for each of the corners and a diamond chain for the blocks with comlimentary colors. I really think all 3 borders play together nicely and set off your beautiful center! I really hope you like your finished quilt and we can all keep in touch! - Michelle

Center: Carol Swartz
Border 1: Irene Frederick
Border 2: Diane Oster
Border 3: Michelle Linnell

I loved the Flying Geese that Michelle added, that I just had to add that as the last border.

I'm really happy with the way this turned out, and had a lot of fun working with all of you. - Diane

Center: Diane Oster
Border 1: Michelle Linnell
Border 2: Carol Swartz
Border 3: Irene Frederick

I am really pleased with all the ideas and effort everyone has made with my quilt! I played with a few ideas to finish the quilt and here is my quilt finished!

It has been a real pleasure to get to know everyone and I am very delighted with the results of my First Round Robin, thanks for making it special and I hope we can all keep in touch!

Happy Quilting!

Center: Michelle Linnell
Border 1: Carol Swartz
Border 2: Irene Frederick
Border 3: Diane Oster

Center: Irene Frederick
Border 1: Diane Oster
Border 2: Michelle Linnell
Border 3: Carol Swartz

Quilt 262

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Quilt 264

Quilt 265

RR101
Margaret's Center

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Barbara's Center

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Denise's Center

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Kim's Center

Flower of Life

My daughter Cindy would like me to make her a quilt using the 'Flower of Life' symbol. I've looked everywhere on the internet for any quilt pattern using this design. I don't think it exist. So I've made one. I am fortunate to have three international quilter to help me design the remainder of the quilt using 'sacred geometry' (you can google that).

Center: Margaret
Border 1: Barbara
Border 2: Kim
Border 3: Denise

Victorian Rose

I have always like Victorian decor especially with roses. Reminds me of my Nanny Pritchard.
- Barbara

When I think Victorian I think ribbon. I know I added more than I should have but I couldn't help myself.
- Margaret

Center: Barbara
Border 1: Kim
Border 2: Denise
Border 3: Margaret

I really enjoyed working on this border. I tried many different ones until I settled on this one. I could not keep it simple; the block demanded that I continue the adventure. I kept true to the circle theme, continued with the wonderful colours and tried to add my own touch of fantasy.
- Margaret Hautanen

Center: Denise
Border 1: Margaret
Border 2: Barbara
Border 3: Kim

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RR102
Bob 's Center

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Liz 's Center

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Michelle's Center

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Diane's Center

Blue Note in B Flat

I used some curved angles to give energy and then set blue notes around them on layer 2. If the notes shift position during the addition of borders, just reposition approximately and I'll do a final placement at the end. That sometimes happens when borders are added after motifs are set. - Bob Ignaszak

Center: Bob Ignaszak
Border 1: Michelle Linnell
Border 2: Liz Nix
Border 3: Diane Oster

The Lady Sings the Blues

Our theme, Blues, brought to mind the style of music. And that brought to mind the title of the movie. This is my interpretation of the movie title.

Center: Liz Nix
Border 1: Diane Oster
Border 2: Bob Ignaszak
Border 3: Michelle Linnell

Star Struck

I love making log cabin stars! Using the blue planned for our theme, I thought I would play with a scrappy blue log cabin star quilt. I have coordinated various types & hues of blue to use for the quilt, if you have a favorite blue your welcome to add it.

I hope you enjoy working on my quilt and I Iook forward to seeing what everyone has added & designed for my quilt!

Center: Michelle Linnell
Border 1: Liz Nix
Border 2: Diane Oster
Border 3: Bob Ignaszak

I like all the borders every one added to my quilt. It really makes me think of snowfall.
Had a great time working on this RR with every one.

Center: Diane Oster
Border 1: Bob Ignaszak
Border 2: Michelle Linnell
Border 3: Liz Nix

Quilt 270

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Quilt 273

RR103
Pom's Center

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AJ's Center

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Marge's Center

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Pat's Center

I love the stars. I like to call them stars in my heart.

Center: Pom Eusemann
Border 1: AJ Wischmeyer
Border 2: Pat OConnell
Border 3: Marge Kleiner

AJ started with a cat block she hopes to use in an actual quilt. I (Pat) thought it would be fun to add a mouse to the theme. The block I chose for the first border is one of four block I found in EQ when I typed 'mouse' into the find box. The narrow inside border was included with AJ/s block so I coloured it and added my own border.
- Pat

Center: AJ Wischmeyer
Border 1: Pat OConnell
Border 2: Marge Kleiner
Border 3: Pom Eusemann

I decided to add 2 more borders to finish the orange diamond shape. I am very pleased with the way it turned out.

Center: Marge Kleiner
Border 1: Pom Eusemann
Border 2: AJ Wischmeyer
Border 3: Pat OConnell

After trialing a couple hundred possibilities I settled on this outside border as its simplicity brings the viewer's eye to the centre of the quilt and all of its intricate designs. - Pat

Center: Pat OConnell
Border 1: Marge Kleiner
Border 2: Pom Eusemann
Border 3: AJ Wischmeyer

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Tina's Center

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Heather's Center

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Pam's Center

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Marge's Center

Prisim Dance

Center by Tina Hoak:
This is basically from one of the lessons on EQ compny's website. I kept gravitating back to it and I liked it so much I used it as my center.

Border 1 by Pam:
I liked Pam's border it is a nice simple frame, a good building block to a somewhat busy center helps to give the eye a place to land

Border 2 by Heather:
I loved Heathers "floating" octagons. Her original back round color was the dark purple. I changed it to the black backround so that her wonderful blocks popped out more and that they became the focus for your eye verses the color purple

Border 3 by Marge:
Marge:I agree with Tina, I love the design of the center block. The border I chose makes the rest of the quilt stand out. Would love to see this one finished.

I think Marges border frames Heathers nicely ,and creates a "spinning" effect. Again, I changed the backround to black so that the spinning visual effect would be more vibrant.
I added narrow spacer borders and a final wide border to the quilt. I used Heather's
octagon block in the corners to tie it all together.
This was fun! Thanks for the hard work and great borders...

Center by Marge:

I think I'll call it Bright Star. I love batik's and have used a couple colors I don't normally use.

Border 1 by Tina Hoak.
I chose a simple border. I was very worried that anything else would be too busy with this center and given the bold colors, that the following borders would all be competing for the eye to find a place to land. It was fun working within someone else's color frame and pattern choice.

Tina

Border 2 by Pam

I hope you like this border, I know corner will be small but it ads so much to it. Very pretty colors love it.
Pam

Border 3 by Tina
I tried out many borders before I finally chose this one . It adds balance to the center and borders very nicely.
Tina

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RR106
Daphne's Center

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Heather's Center

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Anna's Center

Thurston E. Turtle Dreams of Dinner

Center, Daphne: "I think I may be giving you guys a hard center to work with. But I sure had fun drawing this little fellow...."

First Border, Anna: "I used 2 blocks from the library and changed them a bit. ...
And then I used the grasshopper as just the applique with no back ground. Felt the turtle needed to be chasing something around."

Second border, Daphne: "I tried three dozen borders using blocks and achieved nothing but 'hamburger relish'. So I opened the quilt up with simple applique using the single flower from Anna's border. The life-size grasshopper in her border must look awfully fine to Thurstan, so I perched a dream-sized grasshopper on top of the quilt. Yum!

Center and last border: Daphne Stewart
Sunnyside, WA

First Border: Anna Scott
Wynne, AR

This is the only quilt in RR106 that all three of us worked on. Our original fourth partner never responded to messages so we proceeded with three. After Heather sent her center, she produced a promise or two but nothing else. Then there were two. As RR106's fearless leader*, I added a binding border and named the quilt.

Center, Heather: "This was a simple lesson from eq. Though my creative thoughts are plentyful, my elbow surgery has limited my time on the computer..."

First border, Daphne: "I think I tried out thirty borders on this center. Some of them were much more dramatic than this one but they didn't display well in a small size..."

Second border, Anna: "I added 2 more borders on this quilt. The first is just a 9 patch. The second border I added another diamond to <Daphne's> block ... The striped material seems to just set this off."

Center: Heather Ridges
San Diego, CA

First border: Daphne Stewart*
Sunnyside, WA

Second border: Anna Scott
Wynne, AR

Early Morning Fishing

Anna on her center: "I designed this as a lap quilt for a woman to give as a Christmas present to her Fiance last year."

Daphne on the first border: "The (border) that would detract the least from Anna's great center was the 'Continuous Line Fish' stencil from EQ's library. I converted it to a block and let the color do the rest."

Anna on the second/last border: "... just a simple Log Cabin. I tried several more complicated borders but they seemed to pull away from the design. So went back to just a simple border."

Center: Anna Scott
Wynne, Arkansas

Third RR106 participant didn't respond

First border: Daphne Stewart
Sunnyside, Washington

Last border: Anna

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RR110
Deana's Center

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Shelly's Center

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Anne's Center

I made the sailboat in the center of my
log cabin.

Anne Armstrong made the fish swimming around the log cabin.

Shelly Tiefenthaler made the mountains
in the pink sunset.

Irene didn't participate so everyone in our group decided to do the last round on our own projects so I set my top off with diamonds and a small accent border.

Center: Deana Davis
Border 1: Anne Armstrong
Border 2: Shelly Tiefenthaler
Border 3: Deana Davis

Since our last name begins with a T, I decided to try this center. It represents my family of four. I choose the colors of red and black because they are the colors of our business logo and when I get the whole quilt back again I intend to make this quilt and hang it in my meat retail store.

Center: Shelly Tiefenthaler
Border 1: Deana Davis
Border 2: Anne Armstrong
Border 3: Shelly Tiefenthaler

Center: Anne Armstrong
Border 1: Shelly Tiefenthaler
Border 2: Deana Davis
Border 3: Anne Armstrong

Anne's Paisley Star

Anne started with a star, with fabrics that are in her stash and sent it on to Shelly for the next round and Deana for the round which mirrored the centre star. As our fourth participant did not take part we decided to add a final border to our own piece. I spent some time deciding what to add as I really liked it as it was but finally reused the first border.

This was my first rr and though a challenge I have enjoyed it tremendously.

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Marge's Center

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Daphne's Center

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Tina's Center

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Anna's Center

Decided to go with halloween fabrics since that is my birthday. I've been wanting to do one for that holiday. Maybe this will be the one. I think I'll call it 'Once Upon a Witchy Night' - Marge

As an exercise long ago, I traced the applique units in this border from the font 'Wingdings 2', the letters 'a' and 'e' and a mirror image of a portion of the 'a'. I also made the 'prairie points' as an applique instead of using points out and points in borders.
- Daphne

Center, Daphne: I drew a whole bunch of these Celtic style knots in 2004 ...one for almost every letter in the alphabet. This one is named for my Mom...

First border, Anna: This was a real mind boggler to me. I came up with several ideas but none seemed to work until ... I (took) a celtic block from the library and turned it into a simple chain block...

Second border, Marge: I chose a block called Roman Villa. Tried a few other borders, and this is the one I liked best...

Third border, Tina: Wow, this was a challenge, but I finally went with a very simple border. I chose this one as it does not compete with the stunning 2nd border ...

Virtual finishing border, Daphne: I echoed the 'wave' in the last border with a simple scallop. This Round Robin was a positive experience!
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Center -- Daphne Stewart; Sunnyside, Washington

First border -- Anna Scott; Wynne, Arkansas

Second border -- Marge Kleiner; Howell, Michigan

Third border -- Tina Hoak; Brockport, New York

The Four Sisters Quilt

Center - Tina Hoak:
The road to a sister's house is never long , no matter what the season. And there will always be stars along the way to light your path . The 4 houses are done in my sister's and my favorite colors.

1st Border - Daphne Stewart:
Maybe the sisters have gardens?I worked a little on a border that followed the edge of Tina's center but decided to be easy on Anna. So I had all kinds of fun, getting the zig-zag edge back to square. Again, I played with borders that were a lot more dramatic and some that carried the colors of each corner out. But they didn't display as well in a small size so I finally came back to this one that rests the eye a bit. Carry on!

2nd border - Anna Scott: Driving the sisters crazy
I tried several kinds of borders on this quilt. It is such a great quilt without my adding to it that it was really hard to decide just what I could add to make it stand out more. I finally did a crazy patch block . For my block I just drew lines to make it crazy and even went back and added another line until i was satisfied that it adds to this quilt.

3rd border - Marge Kleiner:
The sisters have a walk on a relaxing garden path.

Anna's quilted Church

How pretty this is. Everyone did such a great job on my little church.
I did add a final border to it just to lighten it up a bit. I took the celtic block and just used 1/4th of it for the final border.
Anna Scott
Arkansas USA