Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

This morning Tom has gone to play football with some of the men from our ward, so I am going to make an apple pie, but before that I just wanted to miter the borders on a quilt that I was working on yesterday.

Back in 2000 I participated in a International (this quilt was worked on by a quilter in Canada) Round Robin. I made the center block using fabrics that would match our living room. I put a disposable camera, notebook, and extra fabric in the package and sent it on to it’s assigned destination. All was going well until the next to last quilter. My quilt top ended up with a quilter in Iowa. It stayed there for months and months. I would email this quilter and in the beginning the person would kept saying that the quilt top would be mailed next week. I would wait for a while and NOTHING! I even emailed the quilter and asked to just have my quilt top returned without doing the assigned task. At this point the quilter would not even respond to my emails. In the Fall of 2001 Emily was making plans to attend Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. This was my chance to try and get my quilt. I was determined to go and get my quilt (and the other round robins that were being held hostage there). I know that Iowa is a big state, but this might be my only chance of recovering this round robin. I emailed the quilter and told her of my plans to be in Iowa at the end of August and if I had not received my round robin back by the beginning of August I would contact the quilt shop and guilds in the area and ask for help in recovering the round robin quilt tops. I figured that someone in the quilting community would know this quilter.

My quilt arrived in the mailed just shortly after this email. I was so thankful for her sending my round robin because I LOVE it! (Even though I didn’t finish it right away – other projects got in the way like the Pelham New York Comfort Quilt project.)

( Mary Anne Ciccotelli – Pelham, NY)
(I am hoping that I can find the notebook that I sent with it because I would love to put names/locations with each quilter.

Here is how (except the little piping on the left) the round robin came home to me. I think the reason that I have not completed it was because I like it so much, but I didn’t know exactly how to finish it off. It needed something, but I wasn’t sure what.

I have another Christmas present that is going to use the the living room/kitchen fabrics and I have been thinking about and planning. So, yesterday I just felt like this was the day to work on this project. I went to the attic and retreived the box that holds all the fabric from the living room projects. But it wasn’t the Christmas project that I worked on, I pulled out my round robin and started to think about it. After looking at the top I decided to try some piping on the edge. I used the striped fabric (also on the lighthouse) on the diagonal thinking this would be fun.

Now I am trying to decide what to do about the outer border, or does it need borders?

I had plenty of the green fabric that had been used throughout the quilt and deicded that it was just right for the outer border. I put it on. I am going to have to trim the border down though because the quilt is about 3″ to wide to fit on the wall that I want to hang it on. I also think that I am going to do the facing type binding because right now I think the border looks like a frame and I think I want it to stay that way.

Detail show the striped piping.

All I have left is to do is the rob pocket, decide on the backing and get the binding ready. Then I can quilt.

I really am enjoying working on all of these UFOs. Makes me feel like I am accomplishing alot but most of the work has been done years before.

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