SAHRR 2023

 This is the 3rd year for SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin). This challenge was born out of the COVID years. A team of quilters heading by Gail @QuiltingGail, announce a weekly challenge for each round. Starting with a center block (either new of orphaned) - Week one and continuing for 6 weeks of rounds. 

It is your choice on how to interpret the rounds and how you choose to make your quilt. There are really no rules to follow as it is your quilt!

This year I will start with an orphaned Halloween quilt block that I made back on 2012 for the Wicked Blog Hop. I am not a big Halloween fan (although my opinion has changed a bit since my grandson was born) so I don't have any Halloween quilts. I made one of the blocks from the blog hop into a wall hanging for my daughter but the rest are in the orphaned basket. 

I picked this haunted house block as my center block. It is a 12" block.

Even though I am not a Halloween fan, I do have a fat-quarter bundle of Halloween fabric that I won many years ago and a few other pieces. We will see how this goes as my schedule is pretty full. 

Looking forward to the next clue.

Linking to Quilting Gail

Stop by to see how others are starting their SAHRR this year!

The March color for RSC is yellow/gold

                  Angela announced the color for March. It is yellow/golds!                    Bright colors to help get through the month of March!

I have been busy finishing a wedding gift quilt and my SAHRR quilt. I'll save those for another post (the wedding is April 2nd and the SAHRR parade is March 21st.) After those were finished, I got started with my monthly challenges. First up is Hang Ten in yellow and the 1st three together.

Next up, is Squiggle in yellow and the 1st three.

and finally my scrappy gray blocks!

I'm linking to Scrap Happy Saturday @SoScrappy, Finished or Not @Alycia Quilts,

and Linky Party @Patchwork and Quilts

I also managed to piece 2 more of the blocks for The Stash Buster Challenge on Facebook. 

This year I'm participating on the #igquiltfest hosted by @amyscreativeside.

Everyday during March there is a prompt on Instagram related to quilting. One of the prompts was Upcycle. I wanted to show you the jean jacket I embellished. I had been thinking of making a quilted coat (it's all the rage 😜!) and even took a class with Victoria Findley Wolfe but just haven't had the time. So the next best thing was to        find a jean jacket at Goodwill and add an orphaned quilt block to the back.              I hand quilted the block after machine stitching it down. 

I love how it turned out!

That's what I've been up to! How about you? Hope you are finding time to create!

SAHRR2022 Center Block

 Last year I participated in the SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin) challenge hosted by Quilting Gail. Seeing that COVID is not over yet, the round robin will once again be conducted at home. 

Each week starting next Monday, one of 6 quilting friends will announce the round. Last year we did piano keys, plus, flying geese, checkerboard, wonky stars, and log cabin blocks. After the announcement, it is up to you how you add the round to your quilt. 

Last year was the first time that I participated in a round robin and it was fun seeing how different everyone's turned out. 

This year I will use an orphaned block for my center square. 

I don't even remember when or why I made this quilt block but I found it in a basket in my sewing room. (I generally don't have many orphaned blocks around.)

I still have scraps from these fabrics, and I pulled other coordinating scrap from my stash. Let's see how this goes this year! 

Here is the line-up:

• 1st Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• 2nd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• 3rd Round: Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn by Us
• 4th Round: Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• 5th Round ME!!! @ Quilting Gail 
• 6th Round: Chris @ Chrisknitssews

                                                                                                                Stay tuned to see how this year's SAHRR goes! 

Linking up to Linky Party for center blocks.

My daughter's first quilt!

My DD1 is very close to finishing her very first quilt!

 A while back she asked me to help her make a quilt. I showed her some orphaned printed foundation blocks that a friend gave me. I thought that she would be able to do them pretty easily. 

She liked the idea so once school was out (she is an Art teacher), we started putting fabrics together. She bought some at the International Quilt Festival and used some from my stash. The block is of a crazy square and she wanted it in low volume fabrics with just one piece in either a muted blue or muted purple.

This is a copy of the foundation piece that we scanned into my computer.

After I taught her how to do foundation piecing, she went to work sewing and completed the 15 blocks about a week and half ago. After working on a layout, I then helped her sash them. 

On Friday afternoon, we sandwiched the quilt and I taught her straight line quilting around each block. Yesterday afternoon, she was ready to learn FMQ! 

At first we were going to follow a template of swirls but it was more difficult for her to get the hang of it see the lines. She decided she would rather try without following any pattern. She finished them in record time for a first time quilter! We took a break and then she FMQ the borders. 

Just look at that quilting!

We were on a roll with all the quilting done so we decided to make the binding. We squared up the quilt and determined how much binding was needed. 

A mini lesson on how to make a scrappy binding with mitered piecing. She wanted to use mostly the blues and purples from the top with an occasional low volume thrown in. We cut enough 2 1/4" strips with a little extra. It was getting late but we really wanted to get the binding sewn on. And she did it!

Here it is hanging on my design wall with the binding attached. A lesson to hand stitch the binding will be next. She did a fabulous job on this quilt! 

I am one proud mama!

With more orphaned blocks from the lady I mentioned in my last post, I put together a garden banner. The theme of these blocks was birdhouses. However, the colors were all over the place and I just couldn't see putting them together in a quilt. So I cut them down to 8.5" x 10.5", cut backings from my stash, stitched around, turned them and sewed them onto a 1/8" double fold bias tape. 

The size of the flags was determined by the largest birdhouse in the blocks.

Now they hang in our garden!