SAHRR 2024 ~ Final Reveal

If you are a regular reader you may remember that my SAHRR started with an embroidery done many years ago!  I knew I didn’t want a full sized quilt or even a large wall hanging. My home is small, wall space is at a premium. So as the weeks went by and the new rounds were revealed I played with them. Sometimes only adding to the bottom, sometimes mixing 2 ideas to make up just one border. It wasn’t as successful as I had imagined, but it will be a fun remembrance of 2024’s Stay At Home Round Robin. 

I finished Rudy pretty quickly. Some simple straight line echo quilting, and the letters and numbers blanket stitched as part of the quilting. I added two triangles of a scrap of Christmas gingerbread fabric to the top corners as a way to hang it next Christmas. I love how the left one has the gingerbread man centered in the triangle. The backing is also a scraps of printed Christmas fabrics that was almost long enough.  It’s bound with red with white polka dots! 

Rudy is safely packed away with the other Christmas decorations and I’m sure I’ll grin from ear to ear when I take him out at the beginning of December! 

This is my 2 year of officially participating in the SAHRR. The first year I followed along learning how it happened and did not complete the project. But if Gail and Wendy, Anja,  Emily, Brenda and Kathleen do this event again, I’ll definitely join in!   I’ll be linking up over at Quilting Gail’s Parade.  Come over and see what other participants created. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR. Round 5…… 4’s or fours.

This week is Round 5 and is hosted by Quilting Gail.  She wrote: 

My choice for this round is “4.” You can do whatever you want – but it needs to have an element of “4” in it. You can choose 4 colours, 4 different blocks, 4 of one block … it’s YOUR choice.

You can see I added four different reds to the top between the 2 cornerstones. And the same for reds to the strip on the left side between the 2 small square in a square. 

I thought Rudy would be a medium sized rectangular wall hanging. He just keeps ending up square! Wondering what the last round will be? I’m linking up with Gail at Quilting Gail for Round 5 of SAHRR. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

ScrapHappy Saturday 24.8

Last week I showed some split nines, some red squares and red with white hearts fabric. I hinted that the heart fabric might end up as binding for Table scraps Challenge. It didn’t. Instead, I brought the backing fabric forward. 

I sewed some thin red strips to Rudy’s top and left side. He just keeps ending up square. Only one more round to go for Stay At Home Round Robin! 

I hope to make a few more zipper blocks with red. I didn’t see a color chosen for March, so I’ll continue with the red.

My week was mostly spent on PQ 15.4. Something using Hourglass shapes.

Not any red, but some vivid berry pink.

I’m linking up with Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR - Round 4.

Round Four of this year’s Stay at Home Round Robin is presented by Brenda @ Songbird Designs. She chose a Square in a Square or a block on point.

Here is Rudy, with some green and white square in a square blocks on the left side. But this arrangement may not stay. I thought needed to add in a second color, now I’m not sure!  I had to make them twice to get them to the correct size. The “too big” ones are above on the design wall “

I’m leaning toward doing the Square in a Square in red and white instead! I hope I saved my math calculations! LOL! 

I’m linking up with Songbird Designs. Looking forward to the next round!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR Round 3. = Triangles!

This weeks SAHRR round was hosted by Emily at The Darling Dogwood.   Emily chose triangles. 

I used 2 hst in my two color border last week. I wanted to use that red plaid again. But I only had enough for 3 3 inch HSTs.  So be it. I  haven't attached them yet.  Waiting to see what the next round might be. Maybe I'll have to insert some skinny retangles?  Maybe something else?  

Kathleen encouraged me too post anyway, because that makes me eligible for a prize.  Though that is not why I participate, that would be fun!

So here is Rudy....2 borders finished.#3 sort of positioned. I might have to add another color in the future. 

Lots of zigs and zags and pointy bits!!!!  But I'm happy how he is evolving. 

I'm linking up with Emily at The Darling Dogwood.  You should go look at her triangle addition!!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrappyHappy Saturday 24.4

 

There's been a lot of sewing happening in my sewing room this week. Only a little bit of green though.  But it’s a project I’m pleased with. I made a pillow with scraps of fabrics used in the one and only Christmas quilt I have made.

If you look closely, you will see that the dark green fabric in the pillow is the same as the dark green fabric where the lower left hand corner is pointed. And the lighter green shows up in the lighter four patch in the lower right of the photo.






I completed a small wall hanging for Project Quilting 15.2. There was no green, but I used scraps. A crumb pieced gray background and a small bit of yellow crumbs cut into a circle.





The wall hanging that I’m working on for SAHRR is perfect for the February color, picked by Angela.






I’m linking up with Angela at SoScrappy. Rainbow Scrap Challenge is one of my favorite sew-a-longs
to participate in . You should join us. It’s not too late to jump right in.






Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR 2024. Round One

IT'S TIME for SAHRR 2024.  Hosted by Quilting Gail with the help of several other hostesses for each round. I posted my Center Block here. And now will link up for  round 1 with Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts.

Whew!   I've been busy this week. I finished the Project Quilting 15.2 project.  Sky Colors. You can see my link here.

And I wrote and posted the Table Scraps Challenge 2024 challenge that was to be green  & snowflakes. I posted about that HERE. 

My center block for SAHRR was a cute little stitchery. I call him Rudy!  I decide to add border and bring it to square. It is now 8.5" square and ready for Round 1 of Stay At Home Round Robin.  Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts is the host for this round. She presented A Signature Block. Click on the link to her blog to see her tutorial and how she added to her center block. Also there is a linky party so you can see other entries using the signature block. 

Now that I made Rudy square, I've decided that I want him to be a tall rectangular shape. So I used 4 signature blocks only on the bottom for now. 

Now I'm excited to see what Round 2 will be and on Saturday we should find out what Angela has in store for Rainbow Scraps Challenge.  February is just around the corner. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I Like Thursday 24.3

I’m joining LeeAnna and friends late today! Check LeeAnna’s post for I Like Thursday and visit other bloggers. 

I. meant to write a post! I hoped to get some photos to share. Neither thing happened! On Friday I posted about my Project Quilting entry. If interested you can read the post Here.

Saturday we invited friends over to watch the wild card game streaming only on Peacock. My friend Connie is a KC fan. They don’t have a Peacock subscription. I invited them for supper too, but she already had supper in her crockpot.  As it turned out, it’s a good thing they didn’t accept. My potato soup was a fail. I used a recipe I found on line, decided to make the one marked creamy. Evidently my potato to cream cheese ratio was off. You definitely could taste the cream cheese, Mr Busy said it tasted sour! He usually doesn’t comment! So…..guess I’ll have to dust off my recipe box and find my old recipe! 😕 So no photos!

I finished my first book of 2024. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. As you might suspect from the cover it’s about Frank Lloyd Wright! 

I enjoyed it right up to the last four chapters. The story took a definite turn. One I did not expect and I won’t share. It was a well researched story, but a novel. Historical fiction! 

I gave it 4/5 stars on Goodreads! 

Oh, and I decided on my center block for SAHRR hosted by Gail at Quilting Gail. You should join the fun. Read all about it here. SAHRR stands for Stay At Home Round Robin!

Finally, my Christmas cactus is blooming. That always makes me happy! She’s an old plant, a cutting from a friend of my sister’s. The mother plant is almost 100 years old and mine is 25 years old according to what my sister told me. 

LeeAnna’s prompt for this week:

January 18 2024

An event that had a big impact on you this year.... and how did you handle it?

I cannot think of a single impactful event this year that I am willing to share. I’m trying to be mindful of the privacy of others, so I won’t share. But as Diann pointed out, sometimes the only way to handle difficult things is one step at a time. My mother always said to us, “ one day at a time!” My father was killed in a car accident when I was 23, my sister was 20 and in college, my two brothers still at home, 17 and 14. I think that’s how she navigated that terrible time in her life.

And I say that to myself almost daily!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR 2024

This is the first time that I have officially participated in the SAHRR hosted by Quilting Gail. I did work on a project last year, but it wasn’t worthy of linking up to the challenge! 

I was so impressed by some of the entries last year! They set the bar pretty high!  But I really loved the blue and white stitchery based wall hanging submitted by Diann at Little Penguin Quilts! 

You can see her finish here! 

So this year I went to my To Be Finished stitchery drawer. I found this little redwork Elf. I should be tired of Christmas themed quilting but I didn’t do much this year. I’ll have a new cute wall hanging for Christmas 2024! 

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He’s lying on top of lots of red, and some multicolored Christmas fabric! This should be fun. 

I’ll link up with Gail to show my Center Block at Stay at Home Round Robin or SAHRR

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!