This quilt needs a good name.

Shannon, Margo H, and I are making round robin quilts.* Margo's quilt is finished, but Shannon and I are still working on ours. In this one, Shannon did the center square, then Margo and I each added borders. Shannon added one border and now it's in my hands. I'm working on what could be the last border (you can see a tiny bit of it on the right side).

*Definition of round robin quilt (from http://www.scarlettrose.com/round.html): "To start, everyone makes a block for the center. There can be all kinds of rules for size, color , theme, etc. The blocks are passed to someone else in the group. They add the first border. Then the next quilter adds the second. This usually continues until there are three borders that have been sewn by three different quilters. The quilter who made the center block then gets the quilt top back to keep and finish."

"New" old quilt

I finally got back to quilting! It took a new baby to make it happen. (My daughter's friend and coworker Ann had a baby on Thursday--don't even know his name yet.) I made this top from squares that were hand-pieced by a great great aunt sometime before the mid-1950s. Just last night I started quilting the top. Feels SO good!
Pam

I found it!

Here is an early sketch of confetti quilts--the ones we made for our two retiring buddies--back in 2003. I also found a photo of the actual quilts side by side. Now to find a photo of the one Pam made for me...

I believe Pam and I completed this quilt in the fall of 2003--just in time for our co-worker Natalie's first baby.  We had a lot of fun working on this one--from picking out the fabrics to designing the blocks.  It involved a lot of tiny little squares and triangles.  This quilt was indeed a collaboration as we used parts of a pattern but we also made up our own "parts" and, of course, the quilting is all unique.  Natalie still tells me how much little Sarah enjoys looking at this quilt--even nearly 5 years later.

A quilt in the living room

This is the quilt Shannon gave me in December 2003, after she and I made similar quilts for Ann and Roberta's retirement in the summer of 2003. (Did I get that right?) The quilt hangs out in my living room and is used by anyone who lingers there and gets a chill.

Day 1!

Pam sets up new blog and HOPES Shannon can access it....

Pam predicts that once all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed, Shannon will become addicted to changing the look of the blog. We'll see...