Stay at Home Round Robin.

 A few years ago I participated in a fun Stay At Home Round Robin, also known as a SAHRR. I had a good time doing it and each week there was a new challenge to add to the quilt. Life over the last few years got really crazy and I didn’t have the time or energy to do another. Until this year, when I decided to join in the fun. For my centre block I’ve chosen an old orphan block which is a very strange size, 14 1/2 inches finished. Part of the fun of the SAHRR is the built in challenges, so why not start off right. This is my centre block. 

Prompt: Make a King’s Crown block/s for your first round OR make blocks that begin with your first initial or my initial (K)! 

So I didn’t want to do a King’s Crown block. I tried it in my Electric quilt software and the blocks overwhelmed the centre. So then I went looking for blocks beginning with my first initial, C, but everything I looked at did the same thing, overwhelmed the centre block. Then I read on someone else’s blog that they went searching on Quilters Cache for ideas. That web site has blocks listed alphabetically by name. How perfect is that? However, nothing under the initial C caught my eye. But when I looked under the initial K, I hit the jackpot. It isn’t a block but a method for making Kites Tail, using any size starting square. I went digging into my 2 1/2 inch squares and found all the blues I could and proceeded to make some kites tail borders. I made the borders first and then figured out what size of strips I needed to add to my centre block to make them fit, and it worked. I love the way it looks. It needs another border beside the Kites Tails, but I think I will wait to do that until I find out what the next prompt is. That way I can adjust to get the size I need. Right now it is the very odd size of 23 inches. There will be a link party at some point that I will link to.