2025 SAHRR – Center Block

Our 2025 Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) begins today January 13th and runs until February 24th. We post prompts each week and encourage quilters to make a quilt. The final quilts are proudly paraded on March 24th. So, let’s get our creative minds working and maybe pick up and abandoned block and make it into a quilt!

What Should I Consider?

When choosing your block, here are a few things to consider.

• Do you like the block? You will be working with it a lot over the next few weeks!
• Do you have fabric to go with the block, especially background or more of the feature fabric? If you are doing a good size quilt, you will need a good half yard of a few lights, mediums and darks. Your background could need 2 yards or even more. Of course, they can be various shades too, so there are lots of opportunities for creativity.
• How big do you want your quilt to be? You could be adding 6 rows/borders all around…8″ + 6 borders of 4″ gets you to a 56″ square quilt, so think about that a little. It is one of the reasons I often combine two prompts and make cornerstones one week and blocks for the border another week. I have a limitation on my quilting frame so I will try to keep mine at less than 50″ wide!
• What might you do with it? Who is going to get it and how will it be used – a wall hanging, a baby quilt or a quilt for your bed?
• Will it hold your interest? When we work on things like this, there are unexpected challenges. Fall in love with it, as you will be working with it for awhile.

Here is the slideshow of my last SAHRR quilts. Look at the center and see what I did on each keeping these questions in mind.

What Should I Do Now??

Pick a block or two. Pull some fabric. Take a picture and link up with us. That is all you need to do to play along. Feel free to ask questions, we love chatting with our readers!

Please link up on Gail’s Post.  In order to qualify to enter for prizes from our sponsors, we need to know who you are and how to contact you. It is best to link with a blog or Instagram. If you do not have either, feel free to send me your round each week, I’ll post it on my blog and enter you into the drawing. 

My Center Block

I am using this block as my center. I think my blocks will be 12 1/2″, so I need to add a border to this block – it is a little short for that.

I also thought you might like to see my collection of fabrics. I have lots of batiks in the teal and blues and I think this will all work. Right now my plan is one block for the center, and make 2 blocks for each prompt. The last set may be 6″ or 8″. I am thinking of a 9 block quilt with a pieced border of the last two rounds! Let’s see if that plan holds.

Remember, check out the other hosts choices to see what else is brewing! The list is below.

• Anja @ Anja Quilts
• Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Stay at Home Round Robin 2025 Schedule

So, without further ado, here is the schedule! Remember each host has a link up for you to post your progress, but the others will also be showing her version, so you get the added benefit of seeing 6 different approaches to the same prompt!

• January 13:   Each of the co-leaders will be sharing their centre blocks (you will have to visit each of their blogs to see them). Gail will host the first linky party where you can also show your centre block.
• January 20: 1^st Round:    Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2^nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3^rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• February 10: 4^th Round:  Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 17: 5^th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 24: 6^th Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• March 24:  Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

How Do I Participate?

There is no official sign up! You just work along with us and you can post your progress each week. We are not hard task masters, and sometimes you might have to skip a week, but just sew along when you can and link up too, as you can be eligible for prizes! We tally up your links and award prizes after the parade of quilt. Each link is eligible for a prize!

Prizes

Yes, there will be prizes for each link up. I just received these gorgeous Island Batik Fat Quarter collections – WOW! We are still waiting for others to show up, but we will give you a full list soon.

Coming Up on the Blog

The big focus will be SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin) for January and February but I have some baby quilts and a retreat so keep your eyes open! The first is quilted and bound. I am about to prep for retreat, so I don’t know if I will have more for you before then, but see you next week with block 1!

Baby quilts (3 to make – 2 easy ones, a 3rd is a bit harder)
SAHRR 2025 – Block 1 (1/20)
Design a Boat block for a neighbor
Dust Off a Book Blog Hop (March 3-6)

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