Terri Degenkolb's Round Robin Quilt

November 14, 2013
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 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.

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