On-going EQ Round Robins (Page 10)

I love trees. Ours are decorated all year with birdhouses, feeders for assorted critters and other ornaments.
- Cheryl

Center: Cheryl
Border 1: Cara
Border 2: Erica

I added a 1/2 border to rest the eye before moving on. Added symmetry to the green strip fabric, and embroidery stars to the center of the wreaths.
This was fun to play with. Erica, I hope you like it.
- Cheryl

Center: Erica
Border 1: Cheryl
Border 2: Cara

Center: Cara
Border 1: Erica

Center: Bev Adcock
Border 1: Carol Schultz
Border 2: Debra Rolfe
Border 3: Sara Weber

Center: Carol Schultz
Border 1: Debra Rolfe
Border 2: Sara Weber
Border 3: Bev Adcock

Schultz Stars in the Sky

Center: Debra Rolfe
Border 1: Sara Weber
Border 2: Bev Adcock
Border 3: Carol Schultz

Center: Sara B. Weber
1st Border: Bev Adcock
2nd Border: Carol Ann Schultz
3rd Border: Debra Rolfe plus repeat of border 2

Mama's Flower Garden Therapy

Center: Becky
Border 1: Carol
Border 2: Debi
Border 3: Sharon

I tried many different border designs before selecting this one. I like the almost circular shape that appears unexpectedly. (You may have to squint to see it)

I really liked working with these colours, a change of palette for me.

Carol Munro
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. UK

Center: Debi
Border 1: Sharon Archer
Border 2: Becky
Border 3: Carol Munro

I saw a quilt this weekend that was all black and white and decided I wanted to try drawing one in EQ. I hope you ladies are up to the task! - Debi

Center: Carol
Border 1: Debi
Border 2: Sharon
Border 3: Sharon

#2 is a narrow Mitered Border which frames out center section and first border.
#3 is a Big & Little Points Out border colored so as to create secondary designs. A block was designed to set in the corners which uses the central element of the Mosaic Block Carol began with.

Center: Sharon
Border 1: Becky
Border 2: Carol
Border 3: Debi

Quilt Center, Mosaic Blocks #17 and #21

Sharon, I liked the colors you chose and I had a really neat border saved, but it vanished. I really like the micro version of this quilt here on the note card. I hope you like the big one as well.
- Debi

Center: Carol
1st border: Diane
2nd border: ???
3rd border: Sue

"Autumn Nights"

I wanted to give the impression of leaves swirling almost in a vortex, on an autumn evening. I had planned to draw my own leaves, but ended up going away on business so ran out of time.

Center: Diane
1st border: ???
2nd border: Sue
3rd border: Carol

Center: ???
1st border: Sue
2nd border: Carol
3rd border: Diane

Center: Sue
1st border: Carol
2nd border: Diane
3rd border: ???

Center: AJW
Border 1: Jamie
Border 2: Joan
Border 3: Sandra

AJW - I took this photo outside my front gate last year and have been wanting to make a wall hanging from it since. Feel free to substitute fabrics. I just sampled these as true, real, desert colors as you can see by the photo.

Jamie's first border frames the photo beautifullly and could make it stand alone.

But Joan's southwestern block border lets us all know exactly where this photo was taken and plays on the ancient desert theme. The monochromatic coloring leaves the color focus on the center photo.

Sandra's final border is made up of diamond shaped log cabins and will be great fun to piece as well as allowing the use of narrow scrap strips from all the other borders.

Center: Sandra
Border 1: AJW
Border 2: Jamie
Border 3: Joan

Flower in a basket centre by Sandra from Australia black eyed Susan block and stencil stitching flower and leaves.

Border 1 added by AJ continuing with the Australian theme of flower and lightening the heavy centre with a light trim of appliqué vine and honey suckle flowers.

Border 2 added by Jamie adding some much needed colour and balance by introducing the 3 petal Dresden fan corner block and green and daisy swag.

Border 3 by Joan maintaining the theme of stencil flowers and leaves with the original fabric colours as background and lightening the overall appearance by introducing the pale yellow to finish stencilled with continuous line of flowers and daffodil corner blocks.

Center: Jamie
Border 1: Joan
Border 2: Sandra
Border 3: AJW

My daughter *loves* the claddagh and has been asking me to make her a wall hanging. This is my first attempt at tracing in EQ. She chose the colors.

In keeping with the Irish Legend, I have created a border containing blocks of interlocking rings with cornerstones of hearts.
- Joan

Corner block Wreathmaker hands
border edge hearts & leaves -Sandra

Keeping block motifs and fabrics from previous borders. Set to frame the center medallion and vines, repeating corner hands in a circle. -AJ

Center: Joan
Border 1: Sandra
Border 2: AJW
Border 3: Jamie

I wanted to create a bright, happy quilt and thought the energy and cheerfulness of a New York Beauty style quilt would be a good theme. -Joan

Sandra's Narrow border of flying geese perfectly sets off the curves and points of the center, picking up the essential colors.

AJ's pieced points and medallion corner blocks mirror both the sharp points and the circles using each of the main colors in differently colored corner blocks.

Jamie's pieced arcs using a subset of the colors provide a calming finish to all the points and draw the eye back in towards the detail.

This was fun!

CENTER: Uses the 'Comet', 'Snowflake 3', and 'Hopatcong Star' blocks, all from EQ's Contemporary pieced blocks library. Cara

BORDER ONE: Okay, this was a challenge! I love the look of this center and wanted to keep the nautical feel moving throughout the entire quilt. Loving the coasts, I could only think of waves. These pieces could be paper pieced...making them easier to complete. I hope that Cara finds this to her liking. Jeannie

BORDER TWO: As this quilt grows, the features of the center get more closed in and begin to disappear. I tried to open it up by using a simplified version of the 'Hopatcong Star' block used in the center. Daphne

BORDER THREE: This was a tough one! The center has such a strong nautical feel, and the whole effect is so light and open, it was really a challenge finding a border that wouldn't stray from that and also didn't weigh the whole quilt down.
Hope you like my final choice Cara! Carole

Center: Cara Wilson, London, ON, Canada

Border 1: Jeannie Horton, Goldsboro, NC, USA

Border 2: Daphne Stewart, Sunnyside, WA, USA

Border 3: Carole Fay, Bloomington, IN, USA

Carole, center: "This first phase of the RR has been difficult! ... of the 40 odd quilts I ended up with in my sketchbook, this one kept jumping out at me, so there must be something here that appeals to me!
My favorite new things in EQ are the Serendipity options and the thread options, both of which I used in this quilt.
So-it will be interesting to see what borders this one ends up with!"

Cara, border 1: Again, Cara wrote nothing but used the blocks from the center to make the quilt grow in a delightful way.

Jeannie, border 2: "Wow! This really made me think. I love the look of the center and wanted to keep the motion going. As I worked on the border I began to realize how much this center reminded me of a rose window in a church. Therefore, I added black to the border. Thanks for a fun project! "

Daphne, third (virtual) border: "I love the way each of my nestmates have picked up part of the previous round and used it in the new border. I hope I'm forgiven for stopping the flow. ... Carole's center looked complete with Cara's and Jeannie's borders, so instead of a regulation border, I did a virtual one. There is no connection between shapes in my border and the rest of the quilt, but I think the color keeps it together."

Center: Carole Fay, Bloomington, IN

First border: Cara Wilson, London, ON, Canada

Second border: Jeannie Horton, Goldsboro, NC

Third border: Daphne Stewart, Sunnyside, WA

We chose a theme of adapting existing blocks for our centers and using a monotone pallete plus a zing color. My center came home to me with six-count-'em-six borders added. I attached two more simple ones.

Daphne's center: "I combined the NE and SW corners of the five-patch 'Goose in the Pond' block with the NW and SE corners of a variation of the 'Nine Patch Star' block, also called a five-patch for some odd reason."

Carole's first border: "I took a bit of liberty and added 2 borders on my pass ... The curved geese inner border is my own design -- I surprised myself with that one! ... But, it needed something else, so I added one of the new EQ pre-made borders-very cool feature, that one! ... those curved geese are DEFINATELY a foundation piece block-and even then, piece at your own peril :-) ..."

Cara's second border: "silence" Cara wrote nothing but added three borders, picking up Carole's geese block for one of them

Jeannie's third border: "I sensed that I had to somehow tie the whole quilt together! I love the colors and the first borders. What movement! But, somehow I thought that there needed to be a repetition, hence the 'flowers' ..."

Center: Daphne Stewart, Sunnyside, WA

First border: Carole Fay, Bloomington, IL

Second border: Cara Wilson, London, ON, Canada

Third border: Jeannie Horton, Goldsboro, NC

Center, Jeannie: "I am not a brown person, so the color in itself is a challenge. I have become enamoured by The Stars by Magic book and will be leading a BOM club soon. I now want to do my own thing using that concept and this block is designed to use that technique."

First border, Daphne: "I first tried different blocks to border this center, but nothing seemed to 'fit'. ... Then I thought, "What if I set Jeannie's own block in the border?" Hey, hey! I think the center's diagonal set and the straight-set border make a pleasing combination."

Second border, Carole: "Jeannie's design fascinated me, so I thought I'd continue what Daphne started, and explore what other possibilities it had. ... So I shrank it, stretchet it, skewed it, and finally came up with another version to set in the border.
The browns were also a definate challenge! I couldn't really find a combination using the fabrics that were in the file when I received it, so I did a color search-Wow! Great feature!"

Third border, Cara: "Wow, this one ended up with a real Southwestern look. I love how Jeannie's centre has the illusion of the circle around it."

Center, Jeannie Horton, Goldsboro, NC

Border 1, Daphne Stewart, Sunnyside, WA

Border 2, Carole Fay, Bloomington, IN

Border 3, Cara Wilson, London, ON, Canada

Center: Cara
Border 1: Carole
Border 2: Daphne
Border 3: Jeannie

Center: This is the one I was thinking for the centre but if you like the yellow ones better you can border it instead.
Cara Wilson
B1: Carole Fay
B2: Daphne
I suffered from a riot of applique in adding the second border. First I put triangles along the inner side to anchor it to the first border. Then I tied it to the center with red and rose 'daisy' flowers, and to the corner blocks in the first border with hearts. I added a few circles or dots just because. It was pretty. It was also VERY busy. (Stu agreed.)

So I kept the red triangles and added only corner 'ribbons'. This one will give the eye a resting place so Jeannie can go wild with the last border.

Don't all the quilts look fantastic when viewed without patch and block outlines?
Daphne Stewart
Sunnyside, Washington

B3: What a gorgeous palatte!
I've added another border, but am not sure that it does the quilt justice. It reminds me of spring! The emerging diamond shape brings to mind the luster of a fresh spring morning or the sparkle of April sunshine.
What fund this is!

Center: Carole
Border 1: Daphne
Border 2: Jeannie
Border 3: Cara

Center: Daphne
Border 1: Jeannie
Border 2: Cara
Border 3: Carole

Center: "I found a drawing similar to this one on an old metal tea canister, used now to hold pencils and rulers...."

First border: "...I think this border draws the eye in to the center. I really like the colors and style. ..."

Second border: no comment

Third border: "... .it took several combinations to find a border that would frame this without overwhelming the beautiful work already done. The colors are lovely! This looks like a very cool, soothing quilt for a sun room wall ..."

Finishing border: A simple block border to round off the 'ribbon'. I certainly like what the gang did with my center!
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Center: Daphne Stewart; Sunnyside, WA; stewartld@bentonrea.com

First border: Jeannie Horton; Goldsboro, NC; jhortonnc@nc.rr.com

Second border: Cara Wilson; London, ON, Canada; carad@rogers.com

Third border: Carole Fay; Bloomington, IL; thimbalina1973@msn.com

Finishing border: Daphne

Center: Jeannie
Border 1: Cara
Border 2: Carole
Border 3: Daphne

FINALLY!! It saved right lol. This is my borders add to Jeannie's center on point.
Cara

Well, it took me 8 trys before I found a border I thought fit the center. I finally settled on this one because it seemed most in keeping with the delicate look of the center and first border, without adding a lot of "busy" blocks.
Somehow the quilt has taken on the look of a Christmas quilt, with snowflakes dancing around the center.
Hope you like it Jeannie! Carole

For the third border, I modified the Alhambra Tile block used by Carole in the second border. I tried to lighten the quilt by bringing back the cream and orange colors used in the center.

Again I repeat the lament: I wish the quilts didn't look quite so black when displayed in a small size. Sigh ...

Daphne Stewart

Sunnyside, Washington

Center: Anne
Border 1: Gerri
Border 2: Hélène
Border 3: Marge

I started with this star centre and a flower came to mind so I further developed that thought with vines.
Gerri did the second, delicate, border
Helene worked the third border which I feel works really well and Marge added the last border with the vines.
I was delighted with the result but felt it needed a cuddle with the final little border which I added myself.

Center: Gerri
Border 1: Hélène
Border 2: Marge
Border 3: Anne

Arkansas Traveler Mystery Quilt

Layout - On Point

Block - Hand Drawn in Easy Draw

Twisted Log Cabin

I am actually making these blocks and chose a border but not completely satisfied with it so I am submitted to my RR partners this quilt to see what are their ideas! This quilt was inspired from the book of B. T Kaempfer.
I am surprised with that come out but I like it and I think I will use some ideas/blocks although not at the same scale.
Hélène

Center by Hélène Laparra
First border by Marge Kleiner
Second border by Anne Amstrong
Third border by Gerri Smit

My original notes follow. I like the name of Celtic Christmas that was suggested.

In the mood for a Christmas Quilt. Not sure yet what I want to call this one. Suggestions are welcome.

Marge
Michigan, USA

Border 1 by Anne Armstrong

Border 2 by Gerri Smit - her comments:
Love using patch draw motifs,to edit blocks to see what they would look like with out the background.
Had fun doing this Christmas quilt.

Ardrossan, Alberta, Canada

Border 3 by Hélène Laparra - her comments:
I chose a rather simple border to finish the quilt. As the inner blocks have a celtic look for me, I used a border with intricated corners.
For a name, perhaps "Celtic Xmas" or "holly quilt"?
Hélène Laparra
Clermont-Ferrand, France