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1 Thanks to the designers who helped with this Round Robin #2 Quilt: Joan Cali Quilter Molly- Molly s Cottage Reeze- Morning Glory Designs Ros- Ros Munda Beth - Eva Paige Quilt Designs Carrie- Cricket Studio Becky- Patchwork Posse Visit for yearly Round Robins, Tutorials and more!

Designed by Patchwork Posse http://patchworkposse.

flowers, and snails Embroidery thread Border: 2 strips 7 ½ X 1 ½ 2 strips 1

Cut out applique pieces. Using embroidery thread stitch embellish applique.

2 Designed by Patchwork Posse Materials needed: Background fabric 10X 15 Scraps for mushrooms, flowers, and snails Embroidery thread Border: 2 strips 7 ½ X 1 ½ 2 strips 1 ½ X 12 ½ Trace pattern onto front of background fabric with pencil. Cut out applique pieces. Using embroidery thread stitch embellish applique. Trim background to 7 ½ X 10 ½ Sew 1 ½ X 12 ½ border. Sew 1 ½ X 7 ½ strips. Square up to 9 ½ X 12 ½ Embroidery help:

Round Robin Border 1 by CaliQuilter Materials: Two pieces of background fabric, 8 X 9 ½ Scraps of fabric for the leaves and flowers Embroidery Thread Two strips of fabric 1 ½ X 9 ½ for outer borders

Stem stitch that medium circle to a large circle. Repeat making six flowers. Put a photocopy of the pattern under your background fabric to help determine placement of the flowers and leaves.

5 Round Robin Border 1 by CaliQuilter Materials: Two pieces of background fabric, 8 X 9 ½ Scraps of fabric for the leaves and flowers Embroidery Thread Two strips of fabric 1 ½ X 9 ½ for outer borders Instructions: Use templates to cut out 6 large circles, 6 medium circles, 6 small circles and 12 leaves. Use a contrasting color embroidery thread to stem stitch a small circle to a medium circle. Stem stitch that medium circle to a large circle. Repeat making six flowers. Put a photocopy of the pattern under your background fabric to help determine placement of the flowers and leaves. Stem stitch the flowers and leaves to the backgrounds. {hint: Use a product like AppliGlue or a small piece of Heat n Bond on the backs of the flowers and leaves to keep them in place while you sew them on.} Square up the backgrounds to 6 wide and 9 ½ tall. Sew border strips to the left side of border #1 and to the right side of border #2 to the right side of the center block. Post your photo on our Flickr page so we can admire your work! Pattern by Joan of CaliQuilter

Patchwork Posse Round Robin #2 Border #2 by Molly's Cottage http://www.mollyscottage.blogspot.com/ Hi there, I'm Molly from Molly's Cottage!

8 Patchwork Posse Round Robin #2 Border #2 by Molly's Cottage Hi there, I'm Molly from Molly's Cottage! I'm thrilled to bring you another fun border for the Whimsical Round Robin Quilt. Materials Needed 18 squares measuring 2.5 squares (I used charm squares cut into quarters) 8 strips measuring 1.5 x 3.25 (in my border, these are the green solid) 4 strips measuring 1.75 x 3.25 (pink polka dot) 4 rectangles measuring 2 x 3.25 (large scale floral) 2 rectangles of background fabric measuring 5.5 x bird silhouettes reverse one so your birds are facing opposite directions. I found a pleasing bird image online; you can draw one, or find one that is pleasing to you. Assembly Instructions 1. Using your 2.5 squares, layout a 9-patch block and sew together in a pleasing manner. Make one more 9-patch for 2 total. 2. Once sewn, cut block in half vertically. Turn your mat ¼ turn and cut block vertically again, so the block is now in quarters. Repeat for second block.

I situated mine so the smaller polka-dot square of the block will be pointing into the center of

9 3. Arranging the pieces Each new, smaller block shown above will be the end building block of the borders. I situated mine so the smaller polka-dot square of the block will be pointing into the center of the quilt. 4. Attach a 1.5 strip, a 1.75 strip, another 1.5 strip, one of your sliced 9-patch blocks, then the 2 rectangle. You should have something like so...continue and make three more!

Place your bird silhouettes into the centers of each background rectangle, making sure the bird is facing

10 5. Connecting the pieces Take one 5.5 background rectangles and sew into place between two pieced strips. Repeat for the other border. Place your bird silhouettes into the centers of each background rectangle, making sure the bird is facing opposing directions, like so...attach your bird using your favorite method of applique. Feel free to embellish with embroidery if you like! 6. Attach your borders to the top and bottom of the quilt. Enjoy!

Morning Glory Designs By Reeze L. Hanson Seminole Pieced Border 3 The finished size of this border is 3 x 16.5.

11 Morning Glory Designs By Reeze L. Hanson Seminole Pieced Border 3 The finished size of this border is 3 x The vertical length of the border is highly adjustable depending on the size of your quilt top. Simply add more rows if you need additional height or trim off length if it is too long. Don t worry about chopping off points if you need to. This is very forgiving. Start with selecting two main fabrics, two accent fabrics, and one background fabric. In my example the main fabrics are pink and green. The accent fabrics are purple and light blue. The background fabric is the white dot. Main Fabric 1: Main Fabric 2: Accent Fabric 1: Accent Fabric 2: Background Fabric: In the space at le write down your fabrics. It is easy to get confused if you don t have a chart to refer to in the ini al assembly step.

12 Cutting List: Cut (1) 2 strip of main fabric 1 x width of fabric (WOF) Cut (1) 2 strip of main fabric 2 x WOF Cut (2) 2 strips of accent fabric 1 x WOF Cut (2) 2 strips of accent fabric 2 x WOF Cut (4) 2 strips of background fabric x WOF Assembly: 1. Assemble Strip Set A by sewing an accent strip to both sides of a main fabric strip. Press seam allowances in the same direction. Then sew a background strip to both sides of the accent strips. Press in the same direction, ie all seams should be pressed upward. Strip Set A Strip Set B 2. Assemble Strip Set Be by sewing and accent fabric 2 strip to both sides of a main fabric 2 strip. Press these seam allowances downward (opposite of Set A). Add the 2 background strips and press all seams downward. 3. Square up the end of both strip sets. Cut twelve 2 slices from each strip set. When cutting, align your ruler with one of the seam lines on the strip set and NOT with the edge of the strip set. The seams are a more accurate line than the edge. Slice off a few extra slices in case you need additional length for your particular quilt top. 4. Assemble border by alternating slices from each strip set. You will be offsetting each slice by one block so pay close attention to this when you are sewing the slices together. 5. Snug the seams together so you get well matched corners. Be sure you keep the seam allowances from Strip A slices going up and Strip B slices going down. 6. Sew A and B slices together in pairs. You will need six pairs for EACH border, twelve pairs total.

13 7. Sew one pair to another pair to make sets of four strip sets as illustrated at right. You should have six sets of fours. 8. Sew three sets of fours together to make each border. Press the seam allowance in the same direction. Add a 2 x 7 strip of background fabric to the two ends of the border. 9. Turn the assembled border on its side. Lay it out on a cutting mat and straiten it so that the corners of each slice touch a line on the cutting mat. Re-press with starch. 10. Trim off the corners of each slice 1/4 above (red line) the uppermost point (dashed line) on the side of the border. This will leave a 1/4 seam allowance on the side of the strip. Cut both sides of the strip in this manner. 11. Trim off the top of the border 1/4 above (red line) the uppermost set of points (dashed line). At this point press the border carefully and use starch or sizing to keep its shape. 12. Check the length of the border to be sure it will fit the side of your quilt top. If you need to add an additional slice to lengthen the border now is the time to add that to the bottom of the border strip. 13. Once you have adjusted the length to fit, trim off the bottom of the border as you did with the top. 14. Sew the border to the side of the quilt top, being careful not to stretch the border. Press the seam allowance away from the border. Sew the second border to the other side of the quilt. Press and starch the quilt to keep it from losing its shape in the handling process.

Border #4 by Patchwork Posse http://patchworkposse.com/blog *Cut 2 strips 34 X 2 *Sew to the top and bottom of your center block.

2) Cut a total of 48-2 ½ X 4 ½ {I Cut 2 out of the same fabric.} 3) Stack the rectangles RIGHT SIDES UP and measure from the left side 2 1/2 and make a mark.

14 Border #4 by Patchwork Posse *Cut 2 strips 34 X 2 *Sew to the top and bottom of your center block. *Make 12 pinwheel blocks following the instructions below: 1) Cut Background Fabric~ 24 squares 3 X 3 Cut these in half from corner to corner. You will have 48 ~ ½ square triangles. 2) Cut a total of 48-2 ½ X 4 ½ {I Cut 2 out of the same fabric.} 3) Stack the rectangles RIGHT SIDES UP and measure from the left side 2 1/2 and make a mark. Lay the ruler down, lining one edge on the mark and the other to the corner of the 4 ½. Cut along angle. Your rectangle will now have one square edge and one edge that is a point. 4) Lay out your blocks out and sew together. You will sew one background triangle to the short edge of the rectangle. Notice that the angle cut is on the outside. The matching arms will be across from each other.

15 Square up the pinwheels to 6 X 6 6) Sew 6 pinwheel blocks in a row. Repeat for another strip. 7) Sew 1 row to the top and 1 row to the bottom. Finished Size will be: 29 X 34 If you have any questions, please me--- I d love to help! Remember to post your photos in the flickr group ~ you ll be entered in the drawing!!

16 Patchwork Posse Border 5 Autumn Leaves Applique Rosa-Munda I live in the Chiltern Hills, west of London, in a very beautiful part of the UK. During the autumn I was out walking and collected these amazing leaves oak, sycamore, maple, beech, birch, holly and I'd like to share them with you. So I have included three pages of life sized leaves which you can use as your pattern templates. You can choose spring, summer or autumn leaf colours or something totally different if you prefer. Border 1 Cut 2 1 1/2 wide x 29 long deep coloured fabric Border 2 Cut 2 5 1/2 wide x 29 long neutral fabric this second border will be for your applique. You may need to trim the length of these borders a little to match the previous seminole border. Choose the leaves which appeal to you most (I found 7 worked well for me) and roughly cut away from the page. Place them on the neutral border and move around until you are happy with the arrangement. I suggest you take a quick photo of this arrangement to remind you of the leaf placement. Select your fabrics and using your preferred method of applique (I will be using fusible web and top-stitching with embroidery floss), sew these leaf shapes onto the border.

18 Quick How to s for Applique: *Cut out leaf shape. *Lay on right side of fabric and cut fabric leaf out. *Lay randomly on the border and glue in place--- use fabric glue or glue stick. *Stitch Draw on the leaves. Stitch at least 1/8 inside each leaf and go all the way around the shape. Stitch a line in the center and little lines for the leaf vanes. This will sort of pucker the leaf a bit and give them a bit of character.

22 Patchwork Posse Round Robin, Border #6 Beth Helfter, EvaPaige Quilt Designs My quilting philosophy is definitely one of if it isn t fun, why do it, and I m bringing my signature fun over fuss style to this border, using a basic technique I came up with years ago and love using in one form or another in lots of my designs. Hope you enjoy it too! Note: I asked Becky to give me a measurement to start with before I designed this border; I don t know about the rest of you, but I had some issues with the borders not always matching up due to differences in piecing techniques and seam allowances or maybe just my idiocy. In any case, I wanted to start off right for you. She told me we were at 47 wide, so I went with that. The border I created finishes at 47 ½ wide, which allows for a little leeway, and the blocks themselves are very forgiving, so if you have to trim the end ones once it is sewn, no one will ever notice. Trust me. The most important thing is to be sure the rightmost and leftmost 1 background strips line up with the 1 border we created in the last round. Here is the border you will be adding. Isn t it stunning? Cutting: 48 strips 3 x 8 from various fabrics 14 strips 1 ½ x 6 ½ from background fabric Piecing:

1. Using your 3 strips, lay one strip on another, right sides together, angling the top strip slightly as shown in Diagram 1, keeping the edge of the top strip no further from the edge of the bottom

23 1. Using your 3 strips, lay one strip on another, right sides together, angling the top strip slightly as shown in Diagram 1, keeping the edge of the top strip no further from the edge of the bottom strip than ½. Sew a ¼ seam. Repeat to make 16 sets of two strips. I like to chain sew these all together and vary my angles a bit for a little more interest. Diagram 1 Keep distance less than ½ 2. Press top strip to one side, Now add another 3 strip using the same angling method to each block as shown in Diagram 2. You will end up with 16 wonky blocks made up of 3 strips of fabric. Diagram 2 3. Separate your wonky blocks into two piles of 8 blocks each. Trim the first pile to 5 ½ x 6 ½ with seams running vertically as shown in Diagram 3. Diagram 3

Sew each border strip together (each strip will have 8 blocks and 7 sashing strips) and press seams all in one direction. Note: You can over- or under-think this step as much as you like.

24 4. Trim the second pile of blocks to 5 ½ x 6 ½ with seams running horizontally as shown in Diagram 4. Diagram 4 5. Lay out two rows of blocks to look like the picture of the border on page 1, alternating the horizontal and vertical blocks and using the 1 ½ strips as a sort of sashing between them. Sew each border strip together (each strip will have 8 blocks and 7 sashing strips) and press seams all in one direction. Note: You can over- or under-think this step as much as you like. Some quilters will shuffle their blocks around 98 times before they are satisfied with the layout, others will just grab the next one on the pile and use it. Either way will work. 6. Sew your borders to the top and bottom of the quilt, being sure to match the rightmost and leftmost sashing strips with the 1 border from the previous round. The rest of your seams should match up as well to the pinwheel border (see photo), but if they don t quite, it really isn t going to

make your quilt less gorgeous. Again, this is a forgiving border. Trim border ends if necessary to make your quilt 47 wide. Here is what my quilt looks like so far.

25 make your quilt less gorgeous. Again, this is a forgiving border. Trim border ends if necessary to make your quilt 47 wide. Here is what my quilt looks like so far. I m still searching for the right green for the leaves on the first border and haven t decided what to do in the bird space on the second border (I m contemplating more circular flowers with a long stem rather than bird because I am as a rule more flora than fauna), but I really like it so far! Lots of fun techniques I don t normally use, and I got to play with some cool new fabrics I d purchased at spring market last year. Thanks for letting me play and I hope you ll visit my blog, Quilting Hottie Haven, at

Patchwork Posse Round Robin ~ Border #7 By Carrie Graziano at crickets studio http://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com Hello! Welcome to border #7 in our very super fun round robin.

!! As Beth mentioned in the last round, all of our tops may be measuring slightly differently due to variations in sewing seam allowances, printing templates, etc.

So, here is the border (I don t have any fancy software and I really doubt you d want to see my hand-drawn sketches, sooo here s the side of my quilt top cute huh?

Here s what you need: Background fabric - 6 ½ x 6 ½ squares cut 4 Dark fabric scraps - 5 x 1 ½ strips cut 4 for butterfly bodies Lots of scraps/block trimmings of the fabrics and/or colors used in

26 Patchwork Posse Round Robin ~ Border #7 By Carrie Graziano at crickets studio Hello! Welcome to border #7 in our very super fun round robin. I have so loved all the border rounds, and am delighted that I am joining Becky and you all on this round. I warn you, I love to talk, so these instructions may be a bit chatty!!! As Beth mentioned in the last round, all of our tops may be measuring slightly differently due to variations in sewing seam allowances, printing templates, etc. I designed this border to accommodate this, so no worries. Please read thru these instructions before beginning your borders. Always good to know what s ahead, right? So, here is the border (I don t have any fancy software and I really doubt you d want to see my hand-drawn sketches, sooo here s the side of my quilt top cute huh? The butterflies are for my daughter as this quilt will hang in her room. The crazy patches are my way of using up the many scraps I ve made during each round of borders. Here s what you need: Background fabric - 6 ½ x 6 ½ squares cut 4 Dark fabric scraps - 5 x 1 ½ strips cut 4 for butterfly bodies Lots of scraps/block trimmings of the fabrics and/or colors used in your round robin top thus far. Try to limit the background fabric here. Colors work best. Paper foundation (I used an old telephone book*) 8 squares 14 each *it s thin, easy to rip off and a good way to recycle Iron-on fusible web, embroidery thread & needle and other appliqué supplies, depending on how you like to appliqué. Let s get started! Crazy Patches: We ll piece the crazy patches first. You ll make 14 of them, 10 for the borders and 4 to use for the butterflies. Place a fabric scrap (or a trimming from a previous border) in the center of the paper foundation right side up. Lay another fabric scrap on top of that right side down. It doesn t have to line up perfectly. Sew a ¼ seam along the edge of the top fabric. Finger press open.

Keep adding pieces as above rotating around your center.

the paper from the 4 untrimmed crazy patches.

patches. Appliqué to the 6 ½ square using the template diagram as a guide.

fusible web to hold my seams flat). Embroider the butterflies antennae using embroidery floss.

27 Keep adding pieces as above rotating around your center. Here I added a leftover piece from an earlier border. Do this until the paper is filled up. Iron press. Trim 10 of the blocks to 6 ½ square and remove the paper foundations from the backs now. Set aside. Don t forget, we ll adjust the border to fit your quilt top later Butterfly patches: Remove the paper from the 4 untrimmed crazy patches. Using your favorite method of appliqué, cut out 4 butterfly bodies (template B) from the four 5 x 1 ½ strips of dark scraps. Now cut 8 butterfly wings (4 of template A and 4 of template A-Rev) from the untrimmed crazy patches. Appliqué to the 6 ½ square using the template diagram as a guide. Here is how I did mine using iron-on fusible web: (Yup, I did the wings as a whole using the fusible web to hold my seams flat). Embroider the butterflies antennae using embroidery floss. Assemble the borders: Look thru all your finished crazy patches and pick out 2 that you could trim (maybe there s a fabric that looks wonky or weird). These are our fixer patches, so set them aside for now. Measure the sides of your quilt top. Record this measurement here. Mine is 40 ½. Start sewing your borders into sets. Use this order: Butterfly block Crazy patch Crazy patch Crazy patch Crazy patch Butterfly block Set #1 Make 2 Set #2 Make 2

Measure set #1 & set #2 add together. Mine is 18 ½ + 18 ½ = 37. + = Subtract ½ for seam allowances. So, mine is 37 ½ = 36 ½. - = Subtract this from your quilt side measurement from above.

Now finish your borders like this: Set #1 Fixer crazy patch Set #2 Make 2 Sew your borders to your quilt top making sure to match the seams by the butterfly blocks.

28 Measure set #1 & set #2 add together. Mine is 18 ½ + 18 ½ = = Subtract ½ for seam allowances. So, mine is 37 ½ = 36 ½. - = Subtract this from your quilt side measurement from above. Mine is 40 ½ - 36 ½ = 4. - = This is the magic number you need to finish your border to fit your quilt top! Trim the 2 fixer patches to 6 ½ x YOUR MAGIC NUMBER. Now finish your borders like this: Set #1 Fixer crazy patch Set #2 Make 2 Sew your borders to your quilt top making sure to match the seams by the butterfly blocks. Here is my quilt top with our new crazy butterfly borders. See the center patch in the border? Because they are crazy patches, it blends right in yay! Make 2 Fixer patch right there I actually made an extra patch that I am using for my signature block on the back of this quilt. Happy accident {smile}. Thanks for making this border with me. Check out my blog at to see how my quilt turns out and what else I am up to! ~ Carrie

31 Round Robin Border #8

32 Because the quilt needed some length I added some large long stemmed poppies, possies or just plain ol flowers. The centers are large enough so that you could add buttons, yo yo s or whatever else you would like. {depending on your quilter you might need to add those after quilting}. You will be making 18 flower blocks with 16 spaces in between them. These spacers allow you to add or subtract to make your row custom fit the quilt center. Cut: Sew: 18~ 5 inch X 5 inch squares from random colors. {these are the flowers} 72 ~ 2 inch X 2 inch squares of backgrounds {corners of flowers} 18~ 5 inch X 7 inch rectangles out of backgrounds {background for stems} 18~ 1 inch X 7 inch strips greens {flower stems} 9~ green leaves 16~ 3 inch X 11 ½ inch 1) Place a 2 inch X 2 inch square in the corner of the 5 inch square. Draw a line down the center and sew on this line. There are a lot, so if you want to eyeball the line that would be ok too! 2) Repeat step one until all the corners have squares sewn to them. This is speed piecing at it s finest! 3) Cut the corner off ¼ past the sewn line. 4) Fold back corners and iron flat. Repeat will all flower blocks. 5) Take the green stems { 1 inch X 7 inch} and place sort of in the center of the background 5 inch X 7 inch. Raw edge appliqué them to the back ground. {this is sewing 1/8 th inch from sides both sides} 6) Place a leaf on 9 of these and raw edge appliqué them down. You can choose their placement for more of a whimsy style. Some are high, low and on the left of right side of the stem. 7) Sew these stem pieces to the flowers. 8) Add a spacer in between each flower, alternating a flower with a leaf, then a flower without a leaf. When getting to the last 2 spaces measure the length of your quilt. You will need to adjust the spacers. I ended up with 60 inches and needed to take off ¼ inch off of 2 spacers. 9) Sew the borders to the top and bottom of your quilt. I really was at a loss at what to add next. I am perfectly happy with how mine turned out and auditioned a few additional borders, but nothing fit it. For me it is finished. If you would like to add another border, than please do. There are no rules on this if it needs it in your mind, then give it to it! Don t deny the quilt a border if it is asking for another one! Hint: I will sew a stay stitch along the pieced sides so they don t get all stretched when quilting it. Thanks for participating and sewing along with the Round Robin. This has been the 2 nd one and both are wonderful!! Thanks to all those who designed for us: Joanhttp:// Roshttp://rosa munda.blogspot.com/ Mollyhttp://mollyscottage.blogspot.com/ Bethhttp:// Reezehttp://katlovesquilts.blogspot.com/ Carriehttp://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com/ Follow along my sewing adventure and more Round Robins to come None of these patterns can be copied and sold They are the property of each designer. Contact them individually with questions and permissions.

Patchwork Posse Round Robin ~ Border #7

Patchwork Posse Round Robin ~ Border #7 By Carrie Graziano at crickets studio http://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com Hello! Welcome to border #7 in our very super fun round robin. I have so loved all the border