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Published: January 13th 2015
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First Look!
Tammy's husband Ryan sits behind her and made the comment that for Christmas next year, the husbands all got the gift of there NOT being a quilt to finish! Round Robin Quilt – Tammy’s reveal
Christmas 2013 my mom gave me a quilting magazine that had an article in it about 4 friends who did a round robin quilt. It was so intriguing that I finished reading the article while we were driving home from Mom’s house and before I got home I had already called everyone to see if they were up for the challenge.
We all love to quilt, so it was a 100% on board.
We came up with a set of ground rules and a schedule for completion. Here's what we did .... the finished quilts are absolutely amazing! I hope you enjoy.
Each one of us was to buy all of our own fabric and create, and piece, a center block out of those fabrics. No limits on the pattern, the color, or how many fabrics; just make sure we had enough fabric to finish the entire quilt top. We thought it needed to be at least 20 x 20, but we left it open as to size.
Keep in mind there are 5 quilts going at the same time. It has been amazing how many times we
Tammy had the most fabric choices of us all. Over 25 different prints!have described the process only to have someone say, “So, who gets the quilt when it’s done?” Ha! There are 5 quilts … one for each of us. The one that we each started is the one that we ended up with.
For the first round we gave ourselves one month. Once the deadline arrived, we each gave the center block that we had sewn, AND ALL of our fabric to the next in line. We decided it would be easier to give to the next oldest, rather than choosing a random order.
Tammy is the youngest (by 5 minutes since she and Tonya are twins) so she passed her block and fabric to Tonya, then Tonya passed all of hers to Sonia, then Sonia passed hers to me (Shasta), I passed mine to Mom, and Mom passed hers to Tammy. Thus a circle to continue passing around as the next section was completed.
The 2
nd round took one month. We could do whatever we wanted to enlarge it. We could talk about our ideas, questions, or thoughts to any of the others EXCEPT the person whose quilt we were working on. We took pictures along to
Stage 1 - Tammy start us off.
Tammy's block to get it all started. way to record our work in progress. There were no limits on how wide or how skinny, only that we had to use the fabrics that we were given.
Then the 3
rd, and 4
th rounds we allowed 2 months each since we were now beginning to get more involved, and the last round brought us to Christmas 2014 for the reveal. We held up each quilt and revealed it to the one who started it all almost 12 months ago.
It was one of the most fun things I have ever done with my Mom and sisters, and now we each have a quilt that all of us created together - a true treasure that each of us will cherish.
In this blog, and 4 more after I wanted to share the quilts and the experience with you. Since this has taken us almost a year to complete, so many of you have seen us working on them, even helped with some of our design ideas. Thank you to those who helped! You know who you are!
Plus you get to hear from each of us on our thoughts and experiences of this process. This is
Tonya's addition, part 1
Tonya began by laying out and spacing the first section of her border addition. what Tammy had to say, and these are the pictures of her quilt from start to finish. The picture at the end has us in order of the sections that we completed. Enjoy and feel free to comment or ask questions! Stay tuned for the next reveal in a couple of days as I get everything uploaded and Tonya's editorial. Make sure to scroll all the way down after the text runs out to see the rest of the pictures!
And Tammy said ....
"Well, as far as the creative process, I would put the quilt on my design wall and leave it there for several days. Usually within a week I knew what I wanted to do but then I had to decide which fabric to use. For me this was almost as hard as deciding what to do. I also looked at a lot of quilt magazines I already had, plus Pinterest had a lot of ideas. I would look on my lunch hour and pin things that I thought might work.
With some of them I knew immediately what I wanted to do, others it was harder. I wanted to
Tonya's turn part 1
The salmon color really made the center of the lonestar pop right out! make sure that no matter what I decided to do that my “round” would look like it belonged with the other rounds and that it didn’t look like the “black sheep” of the family . If that makes sense….
When I would have a road block, I had to just walk away. I would have, what I thought was a perfect idea, and when I got it together I would take it to Ryan and ask him to tell me what he thought. He is brutally honest! When he saw the round I had done on Shasta's quilt he said, “ that is the ugliest thing I have ever seen, you can not put that in her quilt, “ So back to the drawing board and the end result turned out to blend better than what I had imagined.
When I saw my quilt for the first time I was so stunned at the size first of all. Second I was stunned with the amount of work that everyone had done on the quilt, especially mom’s embroidery! I was so hoping for embroidery but the amount she did was unbelievable! After it sunk in, and I was able
Tonya's turn Part 2
Tonya didn't stop there, she kept on going and added more. See ... no rules! to go home and really look at the quilt, I felt so guilty because I felt the amount of work I had done on everyone’s quilt did not measure up to the amount of work that everyone did on my quilt.
In the days since then, I’ve come up with some ideas that I think would have been so much better for the rounds that I did, but of course, it’s too late now! I’ll keep those ideas to myself for the next round robin we do !
The amount of pride and love that I have for my mother and sisters is something that I can’t put into words. We may not be the “best” at designing, piecing or quilting a quilt but we are un-matched when it comes to being there for each other, having fun with each other, learning from each other and loving each other. All the things that quilting means to me !
I thank God daily for blessing me with such a wonderful family!
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Kristie Stark
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This is so awesome!
Please add me to your list, I'd love to see the other 4 as they get finished. K