Design Wall Monday

 I finished that last bottom border and am very happy with the way things came out. I still haven't put a dent in that giant bag of scraps but I'll get there.

This quilt has been a long time coming. It's from a challenge my "wacky" girlfriends and I came up with. We got this hair-brained idea to do a Row Robin. We each had to come up with our own personal themes, some guidelines and background fabric color choices. I chose beige to white background and my theme was "VINES." I, also threw in the vertical directions just to make things interesting. I made the first row with the hummingbirds which I love and then the other ladies made rows for me as I made rows for them. Once the challenge year was over, we all received our rows. It has taken me 6 months to find just the right fabric to sew between the rows. I designed my own sun rays at the time of the quilt and squared it off using a technique my aunt taught me years ago. I'm thinking about doing a green strip at the bottom but will probably go with the brown fabric.

What do you think???

Finally, this is the center block that will be sewn into my calendar quilt. It still needs so work, maybe some leaves..... something will come to me.... you know how that is!
As for Stash Busting
I used up 4 yards of strips and piano keys
2 1/2 yards of fabric for the strips for the Row Robin quilt
and 1 yard for miscellaneous purposes.... is that similar to medicinal purposes, I wonder?  LOL
Total this week = 7 1/2 yards

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