2025 SAHRR – Third Round

We are officially at the midpoint of the SAHRR! I love watching the progress and seeing all the wonderful ways our participants are using our prompts. This week you will shine with your choices once again, so let’s find out what Gail’s prompt is!

The Third Prompt

Prompt: Use Stars in your block! Check out Gail’s post here.

Here are some blocks that I found in Electric Quilt 8, that I liked:

Stars are everywhere in quilting and you will no doubt have fun finding one to make for your round. Now, what did I do?

My Block

Here’s my block – Sarah’s Choice – well at least the one I started with. I was going to use a different block, my North Star, but I used that as a center last year, so I changed my mind. Again. That seems to be the theme of this SAHRR. Even though I have some “prior knowledge” of the prompts, I am constantly switching up my plan. However, you will see in a moment that this was not my final decision!

My hint this week is that for Half Square Triangles, I use the Clearly Perfect Slotted Trimmer*. I like that I can trim everything – each side, and the “dog ears” with one placement of the ruler. I press afterwards and am very happy with this. It really does save time as it is one positioning. And when I realized I had to make 16 more triangles, I was not so disheartened since I knew the trimming would be fast.

What happened? I was dutifully making two blocks: cut it out, sewed the triangles, pressed the triangles and it was too small! I cut it for an 8″ block not a 12″ block. What should I do? I decided to use the pieces and make it a different star and save my work. This round wanted to challenge me, as it was not the end of my trouble. A few pieces were flipped the wrong way as I cleverly webbed the first block. Some surgical seam ripping, and the errors were remedied. The good news is that the second blocked worked up flawlessly.

Here they both are! One has the dark points repeated and one does not. I think I link the one with more variety more, but time to move on to the next block.

Other Resources

It you are looking for other blocks, here are a few resources. I will keep this here another week but if you have other resources you want to share, let me know and I will add them!

• American Patchwork
• Block Crazy
• Quilting Daily
• Scissortail Quilting
• The Quilter’s Cache

My Blocks to So Far

Here is what things are looking like

Remember, check out the other hosts choices to see they chose! The list is below – and will direct you to the correct url each week (after I grab them – usually be 10 am).

• 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

• January 13:   Center Blocks: Gail @ Quilting Gail
• 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!

Linky Party

Please link up your blocks for this week at Gail’s blog.  

Coming Up on the Blog

Baby quilts (3 to make – 1 down, 1 to quilt and 1 to make)
SAHRR 2025 – Block 3 (2/3)
Design a Boat block for a neighbor
Fall Fair Blog Hop (March 1)
Dust Off a Book Blog Hop (March 3-6)

Linking Up

Monday Musings

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