Stay at Home Round Robin quilt finish!

 

Our House

Here is my 2025 Stay at home Round Robin quilt... 

done with our choice of centers 

Mine is a cottage with garden and dog! 

then we were given 6 more prompts to add rows to our quilts 

This image shows the "crown block, which I interpreted as an actual crown, appliqueing the motif from my mary englebreit fabric, princess of quilt a lot, plus a heart... I love her fabric prints and cut out several motifs to use on my center

Another prompt was slicing into a block and inserting another fabric, in the image below it is the grasses with yo yo's for flowers. 

The pinwheel blocks were another prompt, mine went on two sides.

I rearranged some rows to fit together into a unified whole scene... I repeated the black and white accents several times, including the fabric at the bottom which I see as a pond, and the binding 

I fought with the old mechanical Bernina to do the quilting, both walking foot and free motion, and just as I was putting on the binding the needle platform broke and the needle couldn't go up and down. Back to the travel Janome Gem (please sew through all the layers...

and miracles! it did! I had already added in the sleeve, so there were a lot of layers to stitch through. I sewed the binding to the backing by hand, and loved seeing the wee flowers on the black and white as I sewed

this image shows the quarter log cabin blocks (another prompt) and the white strips with teensy star blocks on four corners

as well as the kite blocks along the top. These were pieced improvisationally, and tiny tails added from fringe trim

trim for kite tails, and backing fabric

most of the prints in this quilt are from repro 1930's prints, M.E. fabric lines. The house was a pattern from 

a close up of the free motion work

this image from a prior stay at home round robin quilt says so much

more is more, and I might, possibly add in some beads later, maybe in center of yo yo's, or around the house, but for now it's done and I'm so happy to have taken on the challenge. 

I love getting ideas for rows, it makes my quilts more fun to see, and it makes me work through the creative process instead of just adding fabric rows. 

I am grateful for the experience and the people who work so hard to bring this to us each year. 

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The cottage   finished at approx 33 " square

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