Stay at Home Round Robin (2025) Finished!!!

I got my SAHRR quilted and sewed on the binding so it's done, tada!! I really love how this turned out. I had no idea what I was going to do until I thought about each prompt and then just dove right in and started to sew blocks. I used up a lot of scraps too. This quilt is a mixture of batiks fabrics and commercial cotton fabrics and they all worked well together.

Thanks Gail (of Quilting Gail) for coming up with this SAHRR idea a few years ago and keeping it going until I finally decided to take the plunge and join in (and I am so glad I did😄). I already have some ideas for my center block for next year (if Gail continues doing this SAHRR, that is). 

Be sure to check out the other SAHRR participants and see their finished quilts too in the SAHRR Parade on Gail's blog. The Parade will be on the Linky at the end of her post. Be sure that you check back to see all the SAHRR Parade as participants add their finished quilts this week to the Linky. We are all in different time zones, so they won't all be there at the same time.

The finished quilt measures 58" x 58".

I did a bit of hand embroidery to represent tea pouring out the the teapot.

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Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) Round 6, the Final Round

Round 6 is the last round. Emily of the Darling Dogwood Blog chose this final round and said this:

"I chose the kite unit.  When we were all discussing our rounds, I noted that Kathleen started the rounds with her first initial as inspiration and I am closing with the same letter.  On that note, if you decide that the kite unit is not for you or if you just want a different choice, you can choose something inspired by your first initial or Kathleen's first initial."

I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make for this last round. I tried making one kite block and wasn't feeling it. I thought about doing some more flowers like Dahlias, Daisies, Dogwood or Dresden Plates,(using the "D" in my first name) but nothing was hitting me. Then I thought what if I bent the suggestion a bit and used the first letter of my last name instead of my first name again? P for Pentagon came to mind and when I set the pentagons like I did it creates a flower shape. Also, a pentagon looks like a kite with the long tail cut off, right?😉So I made appliqué Pentagon Flowers and I really like how those look with the rest of my Round Robin. I alternated the center pentagon pointing up on half the blocks and pointing down on the other half to give it the feeling that they were dancing along the row.

Next will be quilting and binding this large square quilt. I hope I can do it on my domestic machine without too many swear words 😁. It will be a wrestle for sure.

Closeup of one Pentagon Flower.

Thanks to Gail and the other bloggers who hosted this SAHRR! I had a great time in creating my first ever Round Robin!!! I hope to make a few more Round Robins or even Row Robins (is that a thing?) to turn some of the quilt blocks I have into finished quilts instead of UFO blocks as they have been for years.

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Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2025 Round 4

Wendy of Pieceful Thoughts gave us the prompt for this week which is a "Sliced Square with Insert, for lack of a better name". The interpretation for this block is whatever you want to do. I had always wanted to try and make a block where you slice into it wherever you want to and add a strip of fabric. Some quilts with this method are called, Pick Up Sticks (or Stix), Sticks and Stones or other names.

For my blocks, I added 2-3 slices of 1-inch wide cut fabric inserts to each of the 14 blocks that I made. You can use any width of strips you want to add or even a mixture of various widths too. On some blocks I stitched scraps together to create a scrappy insert. The first slice was easy to do. The slices that cut across the first slice was a bit tricker to align the strip so it didn't look wonky. I did pretty well with it and only had to rip out 2 to redo because they were a bit too wonky. While these are not perfect, they look good overall and you really have to look closely to see a few lines that are just sightly off. I am glad I finally tried this method and the blocks do give a fun and playful feel to the quilt. I wouldn't do an entire quilt like this, but using them as an inner or outer border or along with another block is a fun option for certain quilts. I think it might be easier to just appliqué the strips in place or use ribbon instead of fabric strips, which is an idea for achieving a similar look like this again in something else.

Closeup of a few of the sliced blocks I made.

So far I am loving how this quilt top is evolving.

Click to go to Gail's Blog for all the info and schedule for SAHRR 2025

Two more rounds left until this quilt top is done. Curious what the next 2 prompts will be? Me too!

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