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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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