Cotton Robin 2019

Welcome back to the Cotton Robin! We've started this year's robin and I'm rather excited. I am on the game! The first block is due in a month and I'm ready to mail it. Yes. Last year I threw together a pitiful little thing at the last minute and mail it THE SAME DAY.

Who does that? Me. Of course. I really wanted to participate and life got away from me, but I managed to get it together. Not again. This year I want to at least begin on the right foot.

So I decided to get to it early and have fun. Here's my house. I sewed it completely without a pattern. Ha! I started with the orange door. Yep! An orange door, some almost white walls, and windows with built in shades and curtains. Those windows were a stroke of genius that just happened. I would never have used this fabric, but in the end look how cute. It also decided the color of the roof. 

There were quite a few things going on, so I decided to go with a navy roof to avoid adding yet another color. Then I realized that the block didn't meet the size requirements. So I added a tree. 

It looks just like the ones my husband trims. He wants NO LIMBS near the ground because they are a pain when he cuts grass. What does he do instead? Cuts them way up high so there's just a little top. One year he stood on the cab of the big tractor. Now really? So back to "The Orange Door." It will go out as soon as I get an address to ship it to, and I'll be off and running. Cotton Robin here I come! (Did I say I'm excited?)

The Cotton Robin Big Reveal 2018

You can see all of the finished quilt on the Cotton Robin blog. 
That means I can now show you my quilt and the ones I worked on. I am still surprised at the changes to my starter block. It's always so much fun to play!

my original block

my completed quilt

I love my quilt. This is my second one from the Cotton Robin. Playing is just unbelievably fun. 

1. Something you begin and send off, comes back to you complete and interestingly different. 
2. You have no idea who will work on the quilt, their style or ideas.
3. Who knows where your quilts will go or where the blocks will come from? Last year my quilt went to Australia!
4. You get to "meet" others through their posts on the blog and their work on the quilts.
5. You get inspiration from the blocks and resulting quilts. What inspiration!
6. You stretch your quilting skills and work on quilt styles that you might never consider.
7.  A host of other benefits!  

 Tish's Old Man Winter block 
was finished by Mary, Terry and Liz

 

Traceyanne's block became this quilt 
by Andrea, Mary and Kate

 Susie's Christmas truck block is now a quilt 
by Rachel, Nan and Mary. I'm was the quilter 
for this one. Man, was I nervous!

Go by and see the other pieces. Julie posts both the block and the finished quilt on the blog reveal. The transformations are pretty awesome!  Cotton Robin.blogspot.com