Patchwork Posse

Round Robin #2 October 2010‐ February 2011 

 

This is an un‐conventional Round Robin.  Same premise of the traditional with a bit of a twist—being that there is no 

mailing the parts around!  There are ‘designers’ who make up the pattern and add it to the sides of the previous one.  

Still totally fun to see how this progresses, and what others come up with! 

Because of this, the patterns are written by them and aren’t done in a consistent format.  Please be aware that there 

might be some differences in how it turns out {sizes} but most of the patterns help with the give of the previous sizes. 

At any time you can share your photos with the rest of us!  We would love to see how your Round Robin comes out . 

Thanks for participating and sewing along with the Round Robin.   

This has been the 2nd one and both are wonderful!! Thanks to all those who designed for us:  

Joan‐ http://www.caliquilter.blogspot.com/ 

Molly‐ http://mollyscottage.blogspot.com/ 

Reeze‐ http://katlovesquilts.blogspot.com/ 

 

Ros‐ http://rosa‐munda.blogspot.com/ 

Beth‐ http://www.evapaigequiltdesigns.com/

Carrie‐ http://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com/ 

 

 

None of these patterns can be copied and sold – They are the property of each designer. Contact them individually with 

questions and permissions. 

Follow along my sewing adventure and of course more Round Robins to come—http://patchworkposse.com

 

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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 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 http://www.caliquilter.blogspot.com

Patchwork Posse Round Robin #2Border #2

by Molly's Cottagehttp://www.mollyscottage.blogspot.com/

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 Needed18 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 3.25”2 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 Instructions1. 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.

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!

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”. The vertical length of the border is highly adjusta-

ble 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 ex-

ample 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.

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 ac-

cent strips. Press in the same direction, ie all seams should be pressed upward.

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.

Strip Set

A

Strip Set

B

7. Sew one pair to another pair to make sets of four strip sets as illus-

trated 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, be-

ing 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.

*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.

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 email me--- I’d love to help!

Remember to post your photos in the flickr group ~ you’ll be entered in the drawing!!

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.

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.

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 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

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

Keep distance less than ½”

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. 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 www.evapaigequiltdesigns.blogspot.com.

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 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. 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. 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 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!

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

http://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com to see how my quilt turns out

and what else I am up to!

~ Carrie

Make 2

Make 2

“Fixer”

patch

right

there

 

 

Round Robin Border #8

 

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: 

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   

Sew: 

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 1/8th 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 2nd one and both are wonderful!! 

Thanks to all those who designed for us:  

Joan‐ http://www.caliquilter.blogspot.com/ 

Molly‐ http://mollyscottage.blogspot.com/ 

Reeze‐ http://katlovesquilts.blogspot.com/ 

 

Ros‐ http://rosa‐munda.blogspot.com/ 

Beth‐ http://www.evapaigequiltdesigns.com/

Carrie‐ http://cricketsstudio.blogspot.com/ 

 

 

Follow along my sewing adventure and more Round Robins to come—http://patchworkposse.com 

None of these patterns can be copied and sold – They are the property of each designer. Contact them individually with 

questions and permissions.