Cool plan!

Michelle, if you can take the picture and email it to me, I'll be happy to post it for you.

Kate

Further update: (2:12 p.m.)

DD just called to tell me the postman knocked on the door, but she did not get to it before he left, taking whatever package he had with him. I don't know if it is at the office of our complex (doubtful) or if he will return it to the local post office. She is coming to get the mailbox key and will go home and check. I'll let you all know.....

Odessa

Beth, Vicky posted a pic of a row robin she was participating in elsewhere, when we were discussing what kind of Round Robin to do next (while we were patiently waiting for these talented ladies to finish on this Round Robin so we can see pictures!!!!)

The link below has some fun fat chickens (maybe the same). We used this site for an Applique Block Lotto last year that woodenzoo hosted. They make up really cute.

Kate ~ no need to panic ~ unless.......

Here is a link that might be useful: FAT CHICKEN FOR BETH

You guys are going to have so much fun tonight! I'm sorry that I have an obligation and I will not be able to log on at the appointed time to attend your virtual party.

I'm looking forward to reading all about it (and seeing lots of pictures) tomorrow!

Lola

Okay, ladies, 15 more minutes until I can "get the flock outta here" (hahaha) and race to the PO before they close. Hopefully my postman will have returned with the box he tried to deliver to my house. DD brought me the pink slip (well, melon-colored, actually) so I can sign for it and pick it up. I'm hoping he has returned. If not, then it will be very late tomorrow nite as I have a surprise 18th b'day party we're throwing for that same DD. She does not know yet, as far as I know, but we're having it @ oldest daughter's house. She thinks she's going there to babysit for "date night". We're so tricky ....

Sending an e-mail to Vicky, 'cuz we haven't heard from her yet. I think she's the only holdout.

Odessa

I got mine on Saturday. I posted that somewheres.

Vic

Okay, okay, okay.....

I got mine! It's very quietly waiting on the chair in the living room ....... minding its own business. Being very respectful. Hubby says, "let's open it NOW ... I'll help."

Isn't he wonderful?

Odessa

I got my box from Odessa :) Drive fast girl - don't think anyone can wait till tomorrow LOL Yes I am in MST

Meg has an appointment tomorrow with her surgon - as we leave in 13 days!!! I am not sure what will happen but she is finally able to keep some food down by taking nauseating meds. Still has back and stomach area pain.

I will check back after supper - should be done by 6:30 my time.

Marie

I'm home!!!! Are we READY?!?!?!!?

Kate

Wow Kate, that was one fast guild meeting! Well, I am ready, but I don't know about anyone else.

How 'bout it ladies?

Odessa

I have Photoshop open and ready!

lets do it!

Michelle should be here any minute and I bet Vicky will be too.

I'll be the first to admit it: I've opened my packages! Give me a few minutes to take a picture and I'll be back.

But I have to say that you all have made this quilt bright and lovely. It really looks like a spring garden! All I asked for was batiks and other than that encouraged you all to use your imaginations. Nice job, everyone!

Thank you for the quilt and for the great memories I'll always have of this project. And thank you to Odessa for starting it AND for the awesome cookies! I'll be munching one of those as I post the picture, for certain!

Hugs to all, Kate
(back in a minute)

ok I just finnished my picks and a very long winded thank yous and this and that and when I went to post it, it disapiered so give me a few muinets to do it again
michelle

Hi gals,

Sorry to be a little late, I was trying to put my daughter's cheesecake in the oven.

If you haven's opened yet, GO!

Odessa

Lovely!

Oh my!!! You all did such a great job!!!
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Thank you all soooo much! and doesn't it look great on my wood wall :) I think I will leave it this size - I know that I can not do anything to impove upon what you all did! Black back and black binding will complete this most AWSOME quilt! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

Thank you Odessa for being such a wonderful host, the little basket of cookies is just to sweet! Perfect snack for after supper, aahhhhh.... Thanks so much for squaring my center up -WOW, I would never have attempted round - but it really makes my center stand out!

Vicky - perfect touch and nice choice of color.

Michelle - love the 'not quite' square, squares! Lots of work and thanks so much for your time!

Kate - The 'rope' effect is the perfect finishing touch... thank you for including Meg a gift and the little note pad for me :) I love stuff with my name on it LOL

Kate made Meg a really neat beaded 'wrap around' bracelet in green's with hangy pink beads and my note pad say's "From Marie's sewing table"!

Now I am going to post so that I can see everyone else's!
Marie

ok I'm getting %$#@!$^&**

I have tried to post the picks 4 times now and each time I hit the preview button everything just goes POOFFF and its gone. help Kate I'm gonna try to send the picks to you and please see if you can do it
thanks
michelle

My son likes it a lot and so do I. I think I'm going to add a row to the top and bottom of bear paw blocks and then it will be bed size :-) Thanks ladies!
Vicky

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I'm having such trouble getting this to work right, so here goes the 4th try:

Here goes! Let's see if this works:

Michelle's Quilt!

ok now I'm having trouble posting any post

so I'm keeping this simple

I love them all
thanks Kate for posting for me

thank you! thank you! thank you!

you are all great, I just hope I didn't go too small on your borders.

I have typed so many things ( I have been sitting here over an hour) I wish it had gone through but I'm so tired I need to stop looking at the screen.

HUGGS to everyone
michelle

Ladies, they are all wonderful! I have been watching and waiting all evening to see your creations. Well done!
Linda OH

I don't know if a post went through where I thanked Odessa for the gift, I love the tin and cookies, but are they made with real dragonflies and butterflies?

and thanks for all the little notes that came with my quilt.

michelle

Michelle - your borders weren't too small at all. As a matter of fact, I think my favorite single border of all of them is the wonky blocks you did in scrappy colors on Marie's cowboy. I wish everyone could see it close up!

And I may have to try to get a closer pic of the applique Odessa added to mine. Tiny flowers, butterflies, ladybugs... amazing! But not a single howitzer!?!?!?!

Kate

I know and no robot trout

oKAY, I have made such a mess in my living room, but I wanted to take a minute here. Marie sent me the most lovely basket with bunny & carrot (I think; did not have my "eyes" on and can't focus on such tiny print!) candles, the basket has little chicks painted on it. There is also a beautiful easter egg ornament (how did you know I have a small collection of Pysanky eggs and that I try to decorate an "Easter tree" every year???) and two lovely pieced & machine quilted squares (hotpads/trivets? .. either way, they're lovely!).

I just love the notes you all sent, ladies. I am so happy that you all have enjoyed the process and have found a way to stretch your artistic "chops". You've all really grown, so this was a hugely successful project in my eyes.

Who sent me the candy bar? And how did you know I like Hershey's??? Yummm!

Kate, Kate, Kate. Thank you so much for the book. I will certainly use it and now I have ANOTHER project I want to start!!! How do you do that to me?!! It is just beautiful, and so inspirational.

Vicky, thank you so much for starting my label for me. You all have really outdone yourselves! The label is just gorgeous!

Now, to talk about my beautiful quilt.

Vicky, I'm glad you squared it up. That green is a perfect color, and your leaf appliques are wonderful. So true to the vision I started with!

Michelle, I like your maple leaves. I have never seen the stems done that way. (For those who can't tell, the stems appear to be narrow fabric folded upon itself several times until it measures about 1/2" or so, then zig-zag stitched onto the pieced maple leaf block. Very unusual and I like it.) I like that the leaves point in all directions ... just like in nature, they don't all stand a certain way.

Next is Kate's round. I love the pp'd trees in the corner, and the flying geese is one of my favorite borders (after all, why would I choose to do it on Marie's if I didn't like it???). My husband said, "that blue is perfect." Very high praise, indeed. Your work is lovely.

Marie, I really like the outer pieced border you did. The tans and browns remind me that fall isn't all just yellows, golds, reds and oranges. There are various shades of browns, too, and your fabric choices are perfect.

Ladies, I cannot say nearly enough about how beautiful my quilt is. I don't yet know what I will bind it with, but I don't think it needs anything more than a binding. I was thinking it would be a wall quilt, but the husband says he wants to use it for a lap quilt. Like I really want it to smell like testosterone! haha!

I have enjoyed the entire process. I was so excited to read all the "clues" we put on the board. They helped to keep me interested and the brain cells contemplating what to say/what to do. I hope you all have enjoyed this as much as I have, and I hope you all like the quilts you've got now.

I also would love to see you join RR 2.0! Perhaps we'll do a Round OR Row ... the choice can be the originator's. I'll be thinking on it, and asking for input.

Hugs to all of you and many, many thanks, my Quilting Friends!

Odessa

(stepping off soapbox now so someone else can have the floor! Look out for pins .....)

No, Kate, no Howitzers. I think that next time I will have to find a way........

But where are the flying robot fish on mine!!!!?????? lol

I'd like to know who had the most fun here??? I think it was me.

And a special thank you to our Techno-Twinkie, Kate, who kept us able to post photos here and gave advice on computer stuff to everyone who needed it.

Thanks again ladies for participating. And thanks to everyone who watched this thread and enjoyed the process almost as much as we did. I hope to see you all again on another Round Robin/Row Robin project. Don't be afraid to participate -- we had so much fun and so can you.

Odessa

Vicky, I just had a "stroke" of semi-genius lol. I should have put more deer tracks on those vertical plaid strips I put on the top and bottom borders. Perhaps you can add some there? I was not happy with those plain old squares, but could not think of something to do with them. Seeing your photo makes me think that would be good.

I'm so glad your son likes his quilt. I was concerned it would not be the right dimension, but I love the idea you had to add bear's paw blocks to the top & bottom. Excellent solution.

Hope it keeps him warm. I know we all enjoyed working on it!

Odessa

They are all remarkable. Each and everyone has it's own personality which is amazing when so many of the same people contributed to each of them. Your a lucky bunch. Thank you for sharing your fun with us. Jayne

They are all just stunning--you ladies are incredible!

I just keep staring at my quilt.... I am truely blessed to have been in this group :) Looking forward to #2 but I am going to have a hard time deciding which one to do!

I took a short break and watched 'The Morgans' I picked it because it is based in Wyoming and staring 'Mr. Sam Elliot' , be still my beating heart - wink, wink ;) What a great movie! A romance but nothing to mushy LOL and funny!

Have a great night all,
Marie

The first thing I did this morning was to open this thread. I just couldn't wait to see what all you ladies had done. From the clues, I had thought, howitzers? I'm not sure I'd ever want to join that kind of RR... But what beauty & creativity! Next time, I wanna play, too!!!!

I love them all - I was there with ya for most of the virtual party~~then life interfered, so I didn't get to see Michele's until this morning. You all did not disappoint! Thank you all for your amazing imaginations and sharing your creative work with us! You are a great group of ladies.
You all should be giddy with delight!
Beautiful creations!

Gorgeous quilts! Nice job everyone. It is really fun to see what you all came up with.

Lola

You ladies and the quilts are totally amazing. That is an overused word BUT nothing else works as well.
I just keep looking and looking and keep finding new things that I like in the photos.
My hat is off to each of you.
BB

We have found this exchange to be really fun. I know some of the "clues" threw people off the track, but that was part of the fun of it. It was really interesting to see what was in the box when I opened it, especially since I was expecting flying robot fish on mine ... at first I was a little sad that I did not see them, but then I was just "giddy with delight" (thank you, Ben Stein) at what was there.

It was really a fun process, but I think moreso because we tried to make it fun at every turn. It helps to know that we didn't take ourselves too seriously at times, because you could go crazy in a project like this if you do. There was enough "seriousness" when the pieces arrived, I think: will my work measure up? are my ideas good enough? can I make the right fabric selections? how will I ever get this to be as good as what is already there? But the beauty of a process like this is that everyone has a different perspective and therefore, the "feel" of a piece can change with each round of borders that is put on.

We had sort of a "free-form" RR without too many "rules" regarding size limits of borders, fabric selections, type of workmanship, etc. I know that a couple of these quilts arrived with a note from the maker which gave us all a little idea of what we were to do or not do to the piece (i.e., Vicky's was for a boy, so flowers would not be appropriate ... which is why we HAD to tease about fly-fishing ballerinas! ;-)

I would definitely encourage anyone who has not yet tried a RR to get involved in 2.0 because it is fun, and we try to keep it exciting. Everyone in our group had different skills, and different "visions" for each piece. It is helpful to remember that not everyone is going to have your same skill set, so you may get a round that is much more intricate than you feel you could ever do, or a round that is more simple than you would prefer. But we all start somewhere, and that is what makes this sort of a quilt an interesting project.

I still need to take a picture of my label that Vicky started for me ... it is just wonderful and I love it (I had forgotten to include one when I originally sent the piece to Vicky). You will all love it.

Obviously, I cannot say enough about this group of women that worked on these quilts. We have all become friends, and we have learned so much from this exchange. This will make us all better quilters in the long run, and I believe we will all be better people for having participated in this. It has been such fun.

So, anyone still thinking about getting involved in the next go-'round, take the leap! It's not too much structure and it is a lot of fun. You'll make new friends -- good ones, that you will connect with. Consider it! Row or Round ... watch the board and I will happily coordinate again.

Thanks all you out there in "Lurkingdom" who have watched while we had fun. I hope to see you all involved in the next one! We can have more than 1 group, so feel free to get on board.

Odessa

Even those of us who couldn't particpate have followed your projects with such pleasure. They are all just wonderful. The results are all amazing. Thanks for letting us share it with you.

I also want to say that it 'seemed' like a long time for those of us watching from the sidelines, but You Ladies did a remarkable job finishing this RR in a short amount of time~~ especially during the busy holiday season!! You should all take a well deserved bow! You all should be very, very proud!

It has been really fun to see what each person added and what each quilt must have looked like when they were half done.

The one quilt that I can't figure out is Michelle's. It looks to me like there are 5 borders (and I know there are only 4!): the one that set the center on point, a narrow red/white border, the red/white/blue zigzags, the big snowflakes, and then the final blue/red/blue. What am I not seeing?

WOW! WONDERFUL! I am very impressed and amazed by the creativity in this group of women! You all did such a beautiful job. It was fun to follow along as your center squares made their way across the country picking up their borders. Your quilts are amazing. Thanks for letting us share in your process!

Sue/polardream

You all did great. It is interesting to see how everyone met the challenge....a lot of creativity. Thanks for sharing.

~Geraldine

hello
lola I think eather Kate or Marie but on 2 borders, I will likely just bind it and not do anything else to it. it will have to wait to be finnished becouse we are trying to sell the house and I can't get into a big project like finnishing and quilting it. with some luck I may end up with a sewing room after we move, one can hope.
michelle

I set the center on point for Michelle's. But I didn't add the extra small red border around that. I guess Marie did it - probably to make the size come out right for the zigzag border.

Kate

I picked out the bear claw blocks to go on the top and bottom of Caleb's quilt yesterday :-) It will be a long time before i get to it because of other project ahead of it.

Vicky

What an incredible bunch of talented and caring woman you are. I've enjoyed watching your progress. Your quilts are absolutely amazing. Great job one and all.

Very nice! You all did a great job.
Salijo