It's never too soon to think about a new quilt, even if we don't start for months and months.

I think this was one of your suggestions (a year or so ago??) when we were talking about a new project:

"One of those crazy (but not) quilt blocks. We could design one together and make the blocks the same size and with the same main fabric and then we could switch off."

What do you think?
Bottom picture is from the internet somewhere. Top quilt is one I made in 1992. Each block has the same pattern but turned a different way and using different fabrics, from among about a dozen different patterns and solids. I remember that the stripey fabric was from someone's old shirt, maybe a grandfather? or father? It was such nice cotton that I had to save it. (Have you heard of the TV show Hoarders? I watched it once. Scary. I'm not quite there but almost. Keeping old shirts reminded me of it.)

Top pair = Shannon's on left; Pam's on right.

The bottom picture shows your square and mine being connected with a 3 1/2 inch (cut size) piece of black. If we keep making 2-unit pieces and then sewing them together we'll have it almost done! Then we add the two final border pieces (3 1/2 inch, cut size) and we're really done (w/ the top that is). Did this make sense?

A correction already.

Make template B 3 1/2 by 12 1/2 (instead of 3 1/2 x 12).

I started last night and realized that I'd mis-measured your blocks; they're closer to 12 1/2-inch squares than 12-inch squares.

Pam

I THINK this works.

Wait a minute.

Maybe it makes more sense to NOT add strips of dark prints to my smaller blocks, but instead  to use different sizes of black sashing to make up the difference.  Tonight I started to add a 1/2 inch strip to one of my blocks & it was such a tiny piece of fabric that it was hard to work with. 

I'll do some measuring and some math to see how much trouble it would be and then we can decide.

Adjustments.

Pam's 12 blocks are 11 inches square, Shannon's are 12 inches square. So we'll add 1/2 inch (cut size = 3/4 inch) to all 4 sides of Pam's blocks using a different dark print for each block. Then we'll arrange the 12 blocks in 4 rows of 3 each: top row will have 3 of Shannon's blocks, next row will have 3 of Pam's, third row will have 3 of Shannon's, 4th, bottom row will have 3 of Pam's. We'll add 3 inches of black sashing between all blocks. Cut size of black strips will be 3 1/4 inches [8/23 correction: 3 1/2 inches; must always db-check my math]. (I wonder how I can get rid of this underlining...)

Our next quilt. Some ideas.

We could use 4" squares and make 9-patch quilts; they would be about 45 x 59 inches, sort of kid-size. It would be 13 squares wide and 17 squares long. The "x" spots could be dark prints and the "o" spots could be light prints. The squares with no marks (borders and sashing) could be ???? muslin, black, a solid? We could each make twelve 9-patches, then trade six...like we did with Natalie's baby quilts. I'm blanking on colors or even color ideas. What do you think?

Oh. Maybe you should check my math and logic.

Round Robin Quilts -- Finally!

Pam and I finally finished our round robin quilts. I think we started these 3/4 years ago with Pam's friend Margo. After two rounds, Margo decided her's was big enough and that left me and Pam to continue trading just our two quilt tops back and forth for another two rounds. Here are the finished products--back and front--Pam quilted (and finished) mine (bottom) and I quilted (and finished) her's (top).

Justin's 2nd Quilt

My sister Carla insisted (ha ha ha) that Justin have a quilt just for when he's at our house. She picked out the fabric and I whipped it up in about a week. He seems to like it.

Twin Quilts for Natalie's Twins

Hand-pieced and -quilted by Pam and Shannon

Of the six interior intersections, four of them are "off."

A quick quilt for baby Miles--due March 4

I'm getting there.

How about 2-inch sashing in a solid color, maybe red for 1 quilt and and dk blue (not baby blue) for the other one? Or yellow? And we could use a small-scale print on the back maybe. Or muslin? We should plan a "La Madeleine lunch combined with a G Street shopping get-together" to pick out the fabrics. Should we aim for having them done by mid-February?

Pam!

Here are my very first pieces.

I had to really squeeze the pieces together to get that point. Maybe tonight, when I add more pieces, it will smooth out.

At least I've started!
Pam