
Just to remind you … SAHRR is Stay At Home Round Robin. If you missed the previous posts about this year’s SAHRR – you can see them at the links below:
- Intro
- Centre block
- Round 1 Piano Keys
- Round #2 Plus Signs
- Round #3 Flying Geese
- Round #4 Checkerboard
- Round #5 Wonky Stars
- Round #6 Log Cabins
- Round #7 Pinwheels
Here’s mine. I had to hang it side-ways on the clothes line, because who knows where the poles are? So this picture is actually rotated.

And here’s a picture in front of the magnolia tree that is just starting to bloom!

More about this quilt: 72″ x 86″. The fabric is Island Batik, “Ohana” collection (is available in stores now) and solid white. I used Hobbs 80/20 from my own roll of batting (yes, I buy it by the roll!). It was quilted on my domestic machine, Janome M7 with Aurifil thread #2600, Dove. Odif 505 spray was used to baste the quilt together. Accuquilt dies (from Cube 8″) were used for the star and pinwheel blocks.
This also completes another UFO as it was started in Dec. ’20 …
And close ups of the quilting …



SAHRR Parade
Here’s the Linky party … Link up your finished quilt … or your top … or as far as you have gotten on your SAHRR!!
Make sure to also visit the co-hosts of the SAHRR … each quilt is unique and we each did something different for the various rounds! I find it fascinating to look at them all! Here’s their links:
- Chris @ Chrisknitssews
- Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
- Anja @ Anja Quilts
- Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn by Us
- Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
- Susan @ Quilt Fabrication
Are you a quilt designer?
If you took part in the SAHRR – you actually are. You had to decide on how big to make your round, how many elements you wanted to put in each round. You also had to decide if you were going to go around the whole quilt, or just one, 2 or 3 sides. All of these are design choices. You had to design the quilt!
Quilts from people that can’t link up …
This is Heather’s … she’s in Boundary Bay Quilt Guild …

Love your SAHRR, Gail, and the whole SAHRR parade!!!
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Thanks, Nancy! Aren’t the quilts just fabulous?
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I really like how leaving the corners the same as your background fabric, creates the feel of the center radiating out. The colors are gorgeous! Thanks for hosting this challenge!
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You’re welcome Dawn!
The fabric is from the “Ohana” collection from Island Batik! I LOVE them!!!
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This was such a fun project Gail. Thank you for organizing it. I didn’t get mine finished but it is at the top of the pile to be quilted next trip to the studio.
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Carol, I know yours will be wonderful once it’s quilted!!! Looking forward to seeing it!
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Thank you Gail 😊
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I love this so much! The colors are beautiful, and that picture with the tree is stunning. The colors in Ohana are so pretty. Your outer borders, especially, of the friendship stars & pinwheels with the log cabins in the center are really fabulous. Lovely, and such a good idea! This has been one of my favorite quilt alongs ever!
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Thank you, Emily!!!
It was a fun project! I really enjoyed it, too!
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The crisp white with those cool colors really shines and the quilting looks great too. It was such fun to watch all the quilts come together. It really is amazing to know that everyone worked off the same set of prompts.
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Hi Kathy,
Thank you!
It was fun to see the quilts emerge … each one is so unique – it’s wonderful!!!
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Your SAHRR was so much fun. I didn’t think I could participate because of the time frame, but it was such a nice challenge that I wound up with a flimsy. Am quilting it now, and even that is a designing point – deciding what to quilt next. Thanks so much for this wonderful way to work at home and see all these great quilts – yours and Heather’s included.
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Thank you, and I’m glad you enjoyed sewing along!
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Your round robin turned out beautifully! Thanks so much for sponsoring this fun QAL! I had fun participating and am close to a finish, too!
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Thanks, Diann! I know my blogging friends and I had a fun time with the SAHRR!! I’m glad to hear you’re close to a finish!!! 🙂
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Thanks so much, Gail, for organizing this fun RR! I absolutely love your quilt and watched it grow every week. And I love that every round had white cornerstones! That IB fabric is so lovely, and I’m eyeing it toward an eventual Storm at Sea/Snail’s Trail quilt. Heather’s quilt is gorgeous too!
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Thank you!!!
Ohana would make a pretty awesome and beautiful Storm at Sea or Snail’s Trail!
Happy Quilting! 🙂
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This is one beauty! The extra white at the outside is perfect and the coping strips really help make it not too busy…hard to achieve with Round Robins. I had a good time playing and am binding and blogging tomorrow so if all goes well, it will be a Wednesday linkup! Thanks for the fun and the leadership….cheering and allowing those who wanted to skip rounds…I did a few.
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Thank you, Kathleen.
One thing we tried to achieve was to have everyone do it THEIR way!!! I look forward to seeing your finish! 🙂
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Your quilt is very pleasant.
The linkup for your quilt and one other person doesn’t work on the final link up. Maybe it is because they are the only two that connect with Instagram?
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Hi Betty, the Instagram links don’t work and I’m not sure how to fix that. I know if you go to Instagram and search #SAHRR they will show up – along with a few others! 🙂
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Your project looks awesome, Gail! Thank you for organizing the SAHRR. Doing all the steps myself made the Round Robin less stressful than when other quilters are counting on me to hit a deadline. Turns out that I had SEW much fun!!
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Hi Joy! Thank you!
I’m glad that you enjoyed the SAHRR!!
Happy Quiltiing! 🙂
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Your quilt is lovely.
Thanks for showing us Heather’s pretty quilt, too.
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Thank you!!
Yes, I like Heather’s quilt … blues are my favourite! 🙂
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Looks fantastic Gail! I like how you did the log cabins. They look like stars.
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Thanks, Susan!
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Beautiful! I’ve left mine with my Mom. She’s going to fancy quilt it for me.
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It will be fun to see your quilt when it’s done! 🙂
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I love your centre block! I went to the link, but just saw it. Is it possible to get the pattern still? I think I might like it as a centre to the quilt we’re doing altogether, sometime!!
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Hi Connie,
The star is called “Interwoven star.” I printed mine out in EQ … it’s a paper pieced star.
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Beautiful finish, Gail!! Next time you host I hope to play along!!
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Hi Brenda … thank you! I love how the quilt turned out! Keep following our blogs and we’ll announce when we’re doing another one!
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Hi Gail! Fabulous finish and a UFO at that! Woohoo! I can hardly wait to see all the linkups today. Happy Quilting! ~smile~ Roseanne
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Thanks Roseanne!!!
I know … watching the linkups will be fun for all of us!
So glad you were part of this journey! 🙂
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Thank you again for organizing this fun quilt along. I had so much fun, even when I had to stop and do some math to make the pieces match up.
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Hi Juliann, Sorry to have made you do math, but you were able to figure it out, right? And now you have a beautiful quilt!!! Well done!
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ha! it was good for me to do the math! I think figuring out how to make things fit was the best part – thanks again
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You are more than welcome!!! 🙂
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Looks great. Thanks again for hosting and asking me to be a part of the fun.
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Anja, it was fun to have you on this journey!!! LOVE how your quilt turned out! Beautiful!
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Gail this turned out beautiful. I love the way the white background makes each row kind of “fly” around that gorgeous center block. I love Heather’s blues too!
Thanks for hosting this event. I really enjoyed my participation and the rows I ended up with look great. I will finish mine sometime before Christmas – lol!
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Thank you!
I’m glad that you enjoyed it! Of course the rows you have done look great! They are your colours and your choices!
When you finish your quilt … sometime before Christmas … send me a picture!!!
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I’m making myself a note to send you a photo of the finished quilt!
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Sounds good! 🙂
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Your quilt is beautiful and so is Heather’s.
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Thank you, Pamela!
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