Terri Degenkolb's Round Robin Quilt
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Meet Terri Degenkolb
Terri Degenkolb of Whimsicals wanted to stretch her personal quilting boundaries with the No-Rules Round Robin Challenge.
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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 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
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
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
Gudrun continued the asymmetrical angles from the quilt's center star to make a variation on Friendship Stars.
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Round 4: Kari
Kari added dimension with double-sided scallops that she highlighted with black decorative stitching, prairie points, and buttons.
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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.
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Terri Rethinks It
In the end, they decided it was better without the additional border.
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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.
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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.
