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Terri Degenkolb's Round Robin Quilt

American Patchwork & Quilting Editors November 14, 2013
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Terri Degenkolb's Round Robin Quilt
A creative explosion was the result when four quilt designers took on a project that pushed all their personal boundaries. Watch how this quilt evolved with a little coloring outside of the lines.
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Meet Terri Degenkolb

Terri Degenkolb's Round Robin Quilt

Terri Degenkolb of Whimsicals wanted to stretch her personal quilting boundaries with the No-Rules Round Robin Challenge.

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  • Gudrun Erla's Round Robin Quilt
  • Kari Carr's Round Robin Quilt
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Terri's Reveal

Terri's Reveal

Seeing her Playing with Crayons quilt for the first time elicited peals of laughter and delight.

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Terri's Fun

Terri's Fun

Terri's goal of wanting to have fun in this designer team experiment appears to have met her expectations!

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Terri's Thoughts

Hear Terri and the other designers talk about the No-Rules Round Robin and Terri's quilt.

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Round 1: Terri

Round 1: Terri

Terri stenciled her mantra on her quilt center with oil-based Shiva Artist's Paintstiks. Appliquéd bird and flower motifs add color.

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Round 2: Terry

Round 2: Terry

Dividing by four the length of red fabric remaining in the box, Terry cut strips for a simple border, adding Log Cabin blocks at each corner.

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Round 3: Gudrun

Round 3: Gudrun

Gudrun continued the asymmetrical angles from the quilt's center star to make a variation on Friendship Stars.

Read Terri's blog here.

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Round 4: Kari

Round 4: Kari

Kari added dimension with double-sided scallops that she highlighted with black decorative stitching, prairie points, and buttons.

Read Terri's blog here.

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Terri's Final Touches

Terri's Final Touches

After the reveal, Terri and designer Kari Carr experimented with leftover fabrics to add on additional borders to Terri's quilt.

Read Terri's blog here.

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  • Gudrun Erla's Round Robin Quilt
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Terri Rethinks It

Terri Rethinks It

In the end, they decided it was better without the additional border.

Read Terri's blog here.

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Terri's Finished Quilt

Terri's Finished Quilt

Instead, Terri framed the exterior with a modified sawtooth border to bring the black fabric out to the edge, framing the finished piece.

Read Terri's blog here.

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  • Gudrun Erla's Round Robin Quilt
  • Kari Carr's Round Robin Quilt
  • Terry Atkinson's Round Robin Quilt

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Playing with Crayons

Playing with Crayons

Terri's quilt label included a brief description of the challenge itself. It reads:

Four designers wanted to play...

to create without rules...

to challenge ourselves...

to inspire us...

to change us...

but mostly because

we wanted to have FUN

We had an idea...

We went with it...

this is 1 of 4 quilts that became of it.

Read Terri's blog here.

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  • Gudrun Erla's Round Robin Quilt
  • Kari Carr's Round Robin Quilt
  • Terry Atkinson's Round Robin Quilt

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    1 of 12 Meet Terri Degenkolb
    2 of 12 Terri's Reveal
    3 of 12 Terri's Fun
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