The Round Robin Page

July 8, 2008

First, a description of a round robin quilt for those who may not have heard of them.  It's a quilt that is made by a group of quilters, a variation of doing friendship blocks.  To start, everyone makes a block for the center.  There can be all kinds of rules for size, color , theme, etc.  The blocks are passed to someone else in the group.  They add the first border.  Then the next quilter adds the second.  This usually continues until there are three borders that have been sewn by three different quilters.  The quilter who made the center block then gets the quilt top back to keep and finish.  The round robins I have been in were fun.  We didn't get to see our blocks until all the borders had been added.  We would have a luncheon where we would reveal all the quilt tops and then return them to their owners.

This is the last Round Robin top that I needed to finish!  I'm all done with the ones I made some years ago.  This one has a block that was a sample for a class I took, first border is by Bea Stone, second border is by Rose Marie Straw and third border is by Linda Gibbs.  I added the red print to finish it off.

Barbara Michels' Round Robin Quilt

Barbara took my class when I taught for the Ridge Quilters of Paradise and after finishing her block, used it in this quilt.  The first border was done by Mary Swartout, the second by Shirley Vincent and the third by Joy Kipling. I photographed this quilt at their show in September, 1998.

I went to the Marin Quilt Show in San Rafael, CA on September 6, 1998 and found this quilt in the show.  It's called Celtic & Teal.  The center block was made by Kathy Swartz of Mountain View, CA.  The borders were added by members of the QED (Quilt Engineering Divas).

Norma Herbold's Round Robin Quilt
Sequiem, WA

Norma made the star in the center of this quilt and three other quilters added borders to it.  The last quilter used the border design from Symphony, which was designed by Patty Oliver-Matz of Weaverville.  Norma Herbold's site is:  www.olypen.com/normah/index.htm

Rose Marie Straw's Round Robin Quilt
Redding, CA

Rose Marie took a class from me some years ago.  She used her block from Celtic Medallion III in a round robin that our local guild did along with several other guilds. A very dear friend who I will miss very much, since Rose Marie passed away at the beginning of January 2001.

Carolyn Susac's Round Robin Quilt
Reno, NV

Carolyn Susac used her block from Celtic Medallion III, that she made in my class, in a round robin with the Creative Quilters of Reno, Nevada.

Patriotic Star
60"(152 cm) square

I made the feathered star in a class by Sharyn Craig.  The first border (Red) is by Martha Hilbert, the second (Blue) by Ann Arbuckle and the third  (pinwheels) by Rose Marie Straw.  I added the last border to finish it off.  It's machine quilted.

Scrap Star
44" (112 cm) square

The center block came from Judy Martin's Block book.  I used scraps to make it.  This was a between guilds Round Robin, so the borders were done by quilters from other guilds.  The first was by Nancy Randall of Marysville, the second by Debra Luis of the Valley Quilt Guild in Yuba City and the third by Millie Berryhill of the Valley Quilt Guild in Yuba City.

The First Four Bows Block used in a Round Robin
46" (117 cm) square

When I designed Four Bows, I sent it off to a block contest.  It wasn't accepted, so I used the sample I had made for this Round Robin.  The first border is by Melanie Harmon of the Valley Quilt Guild of Yuba City, the second by Nancy Firth of the Chester Piecemakers and the third by Jan Dole, a long-range member of the Quilter's Sew-Ciety of Redding.

Luckily, I kept my drawings, so now Four Bows is a pattern that I have redone.  The new samples from this block are on my Quilt Patterns.  It's a neat design and makes a wonderful quilt!

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