Monday, October 1, 2012

My "Round Robin" Has Found Its Way Home!

I have a lot to catch up on since my last post, but today I must write about a wonderful quilt-related surprise.

Back in the nineties, I was involved in an online book club composed of quilters who "met" in an AOL forum.  We named ourselves The "Yo-Yo Sisterhood", a play on the title of a book we discussed called Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood.  We participated in several quilt swaps over the years, including a row-by-row challenge and a four-inch block challenge.  We met in person in Chicago where we stayed in a resort for a weekend and attended a quilt show.  We were interviewed and photographed for the local newspaper with our row-by-row quilts.  The members of the group lived all over the country, from North Carolina to Illinois to Hawaii.  We mailed our swaps to each other according to a rotation.

Our last project was a "round robin," where each participant makes the center of a quilt top, and the subsequent quilters each add a border according to prescribed rules (applique, triangles, squares, etc.)

I never got mine back...until today!  As I recall, there was a problem because the top was not lying flat.  The person who was to add the next row set it aside to ponder what to do...and it has been forgotten in a closet for about ten or twelve years!

Here is my beautiful quilt top, and I don't care that it may be a little wavy!
 

 
I used a Karen Stone pattern for the New York Beauty center, and sent along some hand-dyed fabric for the others to use if they wished when they added their borders.  I love the bright look of this quilt with its contrasting cool and warm colors.  This is one that will get finished one of these days!

4 comments:

Katie said...

It is beautiful! What a wonderful surprise. :-)

Vicki W said...

That's really cool. I think it was worth the wait!

Art by Rhoda Forbes said...

How wonderful to finally have it return home, and it is a beautiful quilt :)

Kim said...

No worries, that will quilt out! :)