Around the Block | Round Robin Quilt Along- Finishing the Quilt

Today we are finishing up the Round Robin– Around the Block Quilt along.

This has been one of the funnest quilt alongs I have done.  The designers were great {super thank you!}, the quilt blocks were perfect for each other….and so glad everything went together like they were meant to be.

Now that the quilts are all put together, I thought we’d talk a little bit about quilting and binding.

Machine Quilting:

I did a repeating circle in the sashing.  Simple and quick.  Makes life happy.  When I hit the pinwheels in the sashing, I did a little swirl and then moved onto the next section with the repeating circles.

Each quilt block got it’s own design, but I kep with the theme of apple cores {half circles}, circles, swirls and loops.  The large applique flower was quilted with echo quilting. {where you quilt around the shape, and then continue quilting around the shape following the same shape as before}

I used white thread for the whole quilt.  It hides for the most part and I am happy with how it turned out.

For the binding, I used 2 1/4″ strips and machine stitched the binding.   Here’s a tutorial for making your bias binding strips, and making your corners miter.  If you prefer a different method, here is a tutorial on folding the back to the front.

This is part of the Round Robin Quilt Along Series–– for previous blocks and for theschedule of designers.clickety click here.

Check out the flickr group for more quilts and to see what others are sewing.

For all the Quilt Blocks in the Round Robin- Clickety Click here.

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