SAHRR Prize

This was the first year I participated in the SAHRR. There were many prizes and I was the recipient of a $25 gift certificate donated by the Fat Quarter Shop.

I decided to shop clearance fabrics and wanted to show you what I ordered.

I don't know what I'm going to make with the Ten-Square package but I love those flowers!

Of course this beautiful roll-up of blues had to come along also.

These strips are perfect for the blue Christmas quilt I'm planning.

Of course I did spend more than the $25 certificate but I'm pleased with my purchases.

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2023 SAHRR, the Finish

My SAHRR flimsy is finished! I incorporated a lot of orphan blocks into the project and most of them were used, at least the ones with blue in them.

Here is more of a close up of the bottom half.

And the top half.

It was a nice day so I took a picture outside on the glider.

This quilt was made with the intention of being donated and knotted. It will be sent somewhere there is a crisis and people have a need for comforters.

As of now, the flimsy measures 63" by 90" which is longer than I had planned but you know how it goes when you're making a quilt without a real pattern.

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SAHRR, Round 6

Round 6 is the final round of the SAHRR. The pinwheel block was selected for this round. I chose to make 1 pinwheel because I already had a bunch of HST's in the orphan box. I sewed 4 HST's into a pinwheel.

I used flying geese strips to border the block. She measures 16.5" now, finishing at 16".

I mixed up the corner squares on the borders and didn't realize it until after I had sewn the geese to the pinwheel. Oh well.

When the SAHRR started, I pulled the light background orphans out of the orphan box. I have used most of those orphans in this quilt.

Next week is the display of the quilt flimsys. I know my quilt won't be quilted but I will have a flimsy to show you. My quilt has been made in a row by row fashion.

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SAHRR, Round 5

The block for the 5th round of the 2023 SAHRR is a square in a square block. Of course I'm not making simple square in a square blocks, mine all have pieced centers.

These little stars are extra blocks left from piecing Star Dance.

The next block is made from extra HST's that were in the orphan box. I've always like the broken dishes design so I made one.

This block was originally made for my Nearly Insane quilt. 

Another star from Star Dance.

After I added the triangles to the sides of the blocks, I added sashing to bring the smaller blocks to the same size as the largest block, 10", 9.5" finished.

I've sewn the blocks together and made a row. The applique block was a practice machine applique block that I don't remember making. I didn't add one of the square/square blocks so I would have room for the applique block. There is also another broken dishes block that I just sashed and added.

The dark blue, turquoise, pale blue sashing was leftover border from another quilt.

I didn't think about how awkward it would be to take pictures when I placed the cutting table in front of the display wall. That cutting table is going to get moved sometime, it's on the list at least.

This won't be the exact placement of the rows. I'll make a final decision after the blocks are made for round 6.

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SAHRR, Round 4

Round 4 of the SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin) was flying geese. Of course I foundation paper pieced my geese, so much more accurate, for me anyway.

My geese are still in strips. I'm not sure how they'll be used, if I'll sew them together into one or two blocks or if they'll be filler blocks in the row by row quilt I'm making.

Each individual goose finishes at 2" by 3". I drew my own  piecing papers.

An added challenge to my SAHRR quilt is I pulled all the light background orphan blocks from the orphan box and adding them into my quilt. This quilt is going to be charity quilt so the size needs to be 60" by 80".

I took a picture to show you my progress. The picture has a yellow tint and looks better in real life. Those are shadows in the very top row.

A lot of orphans have been used. I am adding fabric for filler and that is just fine. Did you notice, I did use 2 of the flying geese strips.

These rows are 60" wide. I added the height of each row, they added up to 56", just 24" more to go! There are still plenty of orphans to be used.

This won't be the most beautiful quilt I've ever made but it will keep someone warm who needs a comfort quilt, that's the important thing.

Last December a friend and I went to a quilter's home who was preparing to move and was downsizing her fabric stash. While sorting through the fabrics, someone handed me a medium sized tub and told me "this looks like it belongs to you".

I opened it and it was full of blue fabrics! My love of blue is very well known. Most of fabrics I'm using in this quilt are from that tub. It's fun to be using new to me fabrics. 

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SAHRR Round 3

Round 3 of this year's SAHRR was to make hour glass blocks. I cut the squares for my hour glass blocks at 5.5" then made large HST's. Chris gives a tutorial on how to make hour glass blocks on her SAHRR post.

I trimmed the blocks to 4.5", they measure 4" finished.

My large hour glass block measures 16.5". This block will be in row 2 of my quilt.

Row 1 of my quilt is partially finished. It measures 40.5" now but I'll add more on each side to bring the width measurement to 60".

The checkerboard pieces came from the orphan box, so nice they were already pieced!

Here are some of the bits and pieces that will go into my quilt.

I didn't really intend to make  blue & white quilt but that seems to be what is happening!

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SAHRR, Round 2

Round 2 of the SAHRR is stars, any type of star we want to make. I chose a regular star but the centers of my stars are  orphan blocks. The first two stars have centers that didn't make it into my Nearly Insane quilt.

The centers of these stars finish at 6" while the whole block finishes at 12".

I'm not sure why the center of the above block made it into the orphan box, it looks fine to me.

I do remember why this block didn't make it into Nearly Insane, I didn't like it! 

I used the flippy corner method to make the flying geese for the above  two stars. I double sewed the corners and cut off the extra which made 16 HST's. Since my idea is to use orphan blocks in this quilt when possible and not to make more orphans, I used those HST blocks and made two smaller stars.

These two block are using uneven 9 patch blocks from the orphan box. I don't even remember what project they're left from.

The 9 patch star blocks will finish at 10".

There were five small orphan star blocks in the orphan box. I'm not sure how they'll be used but since they were stars, they're on the wall with the big blocks.

My quilt is going to be made the row by row design. I'll wait to sew these blocks together until all of the SAHRR blocks have been completed.

Hopefully a lot of orphan blocks will be incorporated as the weeks go by.

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SAHRR, The First Round

Roseanne has selected the spool block as the first round of the SAHRR (stay at home round robin). I have never been fond of the spool block and never made one before. I doubt I ever will again.

Rosemary shared the dimensions on her blog and gave suitable instructions.

I have fussed and messed with these blocks for 3 days which has been rather frustrating to me. I didn't think they looked right but I sewed them onto my center anyway.

After I took the picture to show you, I realized that ALL OF THE BLOCKS are incorrectly sewn!!! I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! I have never had such a problem piecing blocks!

So here is my center with the incorrectly sewn spool blocks.

I hope this is encouraging to beginning sewests, even long time quilters make mistakes!

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Stay at Home Round Robin Center Block

I'm going to do something different this year and join in with the SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin). Click here for information about this challenge.

The center block for my quilt has been pulled from the orphan box. This block was appliqued many years ago before I started blogging. It was an extra block that wasn't needed for a sampler quilt.

This block isn't a large block, it's only 10" so there will be plenty of room for growth.

To make my SAHRR quilt more of a challenge, I pulled all of the blocks and partial blocks from the orphan box that have a white background. Somehow I'm going to incorporate them into the quilt.

Just a reminder, I can't reply to comments. Blogger won't let me, why, I don't know. Even my daughter couldn't figure it out. I will followup questions in coming posts.

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