Stay at Home Round Robin

 Today is the day when those of us who participated in the Stay at Home Round Robin post our finished quilt tops. I had hoped to have the quilting finished as well, but that didn’t happen. Too many other projects got in the way, along with weather preventing getting to the church and a bout of illness too. There are a bunch of quilts that are going to need layering soon, so we will probably do a marathon layering day. But in the meantime, the top is done. I am so happy with it. What a great way to spend the long winter weeks, planning and executing and then looking forward to the next prompt. I hope to be able to participate in this yearly, God willing. The centre block was an old orphan project. All of the fabrics came from my stash or the stash from our Prayers and Squares group. This will end up as a donated quilt to that group. 

I’m linking up to the finished SAHRR parade. There are so many unique quilts there, all based on the same prompts, each one so very different. I have a strong affinity to symmetry, as my quilt very definitely shows. But I am very drawn to the ones in the parade that are asymmetrical. Somehow, I don’t seem to be able to do it, but I do like looking at them. Maybe that will be next year’s challenge to myself, go way outside my comfort zone and do asymmetrical. 

Stay at Home Round Robin prompt 6

 I’ve been slow this week working on my SAHRR. Unfortunately a virus of some sort got me at the end of last week and I’ve been feeling punk and unwell. No energy for even any hand stitching, let alone sitting at the sewing machine or doing any cutting. It seems to be easing off now, so I was able to get some work done on this project today. The prompt this week was “kites” or something beginning with the initial “K”. Well that was easy. I’d already done some Kites Tails, a pattern found in the Quilter’s Cache site,  in my quilt in a previous round. So I thought do the same, but in a bigger size. And because I wanted this quilt to end up rectangular, I’m just adding them to the top and bottom. I have one row of them almost done. But I’ve hit a bit of an energy wall, so will have to call it quits for today. I’m hoping to have it all put together in time for the reveal link party. In the meantime, I’ll link up to The Darling Dogwood who is hosting the link party this week.

Stay at Home Round Robin, prompt 5

 This week’s prompt for the round robin was “Quarter Log Cabins”. A block I love to sew and which works really well with what I have so far. I need 20 of them for the idea I have. The finial decision though, will depend on next week’s prompt. I’ve only managed to get 10 of the quarter log cabin blocks made. I ran out of the dark blue fabric, which was cut offs from some backings. But I know there is more of it on a bolt at the church, so I’ll pick it up tomorrow at our Prayers and Squares sewing day. In the meantime, here’s how it looks so far. Final decisions and add ons will happen next week which will be the last prompt. As it is now, it measures 54x54 inches. I would like it to end up longer than it is wide, but that too will need to wait until next week. I’ll link up to Brenda at Songbird Designs who is hosting this week’s SAHRR link up.

Stay at Home Round Robin Prompt 4

 This week’s prompt was a sliced square. When I first read it and saw it I wasn’t sure what to do. It didn’t match up with what I had in mind to go with the stars from the previous prompt. But once I got thinking about it I decided it could work. I took the fabrics that I used in the stars, there was barely enough of the yellow, and cut them into 1 1/2 inch widths and sewed them together and then decided on a 5 1/2 inch square to slice. I trimmed one end of the strip set to a 45 degree angle just to give a consistent starting place for sewing it together. And in no time at all I had 12 sliced squares. With just a sliver of trimming they came to the 6 1/2 inch size I was going for. I am actually happier with the final result than I was with my original idea. The quilt now measures 42 inches square. That was fun and did indeed force me to think outside the box, which is the whole idea behind these SAHRR challenges. I’ll link up to Pieceful Thoughts who is the host for this week’s prompt.

 

Stay at Home Round Robin

 The new prompt to the stay at home round robin was announced on Monday. We are to do stars. It took me a while to come up with an idea and then even longer to decide on colours, based on what I had here at home. I finally decided to do 6 inch Variable Stars, 3 per side of the quilt. I have plans/hopes for what will be on the corners, based on further possible prompts. This quilt will eventually go into the Prayers and Squares mission pile so I don’t want it to end up really big. So the hopes are to combine the prompts into a border. I’ll Link up to Quilting Gail for this rounds link party.

Stay At Home Round Robin, prompt 2

 The second prompt for the Stay At Home Round Robin came out on Monday. This week’s prompt was “triangles”. I like it when the prompts lead for lots of possibilities. There are so many blocks with triangles. I thought, oh good, the possibilities are endless. Well, it turns out, not so much. As in the previous round, much of what I tried ended up overpowering the centre section of the quilt. So I stayed simple, a round of sawtooth triangles. It was fairly quick to do because I used these 12 at once triangle papers. Not having to draw all the lines saves buckets of time. I had to add a 1 inch finished border to get it up to size for the triangles. It now measures 26x26 inches.

I’ll link up to Anja Quilts. There are some really fun and interesting quilts to see there. 

 

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. The link party for the first round is here.