a photo! round robin quilt

Last night was fun! I bought more than I sold-but I am very happy with what I bought. I need to take a better photo before posting that photo.
Here is a round robin I did with a group of online wraptheminlove friends. We started in January of 2005 and when I got this to work on, I was the 2nd to last person-with no stash fabric to go with it.
I headed over to my good friend Amelia's and we raided her stash to come up with suitable fabrics.
Then (keep in mind all that white border begging for applique was not going to be done on my turn!) I started the what to do next ? process. Thanks to Pam and LindaJ cheering and giving feedback and I am sure LJ helping out with her EQ help-here is how it ended up. The last narrow border and outside border blocks are my contribution. The last person decided it was huge, so she quilted and bound it.
Those of us who had worked on it-had our names put into a hat and I was the winner. The joke was-these were so not my colors...please don't let my name be drawn. As it happens however, I was the lucky winner and these are my best friends colors. Ok, several of my close friends have pointed out they also love these colors. But, I needed a finished quilt as a birthday gift for my best friend in Australia and this would be absolutely perfect for her. I think this quilt was finished early in the year but because I delayed getting it any sooner-it is being mailed out today-late but I am sure still welcome on the other end. It has a wonderful print flannel on the back and I just need to add another label noting it is for Tracy. A friend took this photo as the ladies held it up for the guild to see-I may try putting it up on my design wall-but I don't think I will get a better photo than she did. So here is an example of working outside my comfort zone and doing something pretty traditional as well. I have to laugh at not having any go with fabrics from my stash on this-thank goodness for friends willing to share from their huge stash! I will take some close up shots as well- I fussy cut the birds that are featured in the middle of the square in a square blocks. And yes, I fudged those flying geese to make them come out math wise! I think I drew up my own pattern for them or LJ did...believe me, this is the last round robin I am playing in for quite a while. I have to commend all the players-they all did a very beautiful job on their parts. Actually- click on the photo and you will be able to dial in and see much more detail and close ups...