The 2026 SAHRR was officially announced in December (you can read the announcement and all about the SAHRR HERE).

Everyone that is doing the SAHRR starts with a Centre Block. It’s up to each person to choose which block they want to use. Some people use an orphan block. Or you can use one of the blocks that one of the SAHRR team has used. OR you can use any block of your choice!! Any size that you want! It can be square or rectangle … even a triangle if you wish!  😉

This year I’m using an orphan block. It was a block from when I made “Bloomers.” Bloomers was designed by by Denise of A Quiltery. The quilt is a mixture of embroidered and pieced blocks. The embroidered blocks have a base that is half Egg White neutral and half solid white. However, if you put the base fabrics on the wrong side, it doesn’t work with the quilt. Thus, I had this beautiful orphan block.

You can contact Denise at if you want to use this block. It is available as an embroidery block or appliqué. Mine is embroidered. The fabric I plan to use this year is Lumin Fabrics (Island Batik) “Radiant Burst” by Jerry Khiev, along with the Egg White neutral and solid white. This block is 7″ x 12″ and theoretically, I should end up with a rectangle quilt.

The Schedule

• January 14   Each of the co-leaders will be sharing their centre blocks (you will have to visit each of their blogs to see them). I will host the first linky party where you can show your centre block.
• January 21:  1^st Round:    Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• January 28:  2^nd Round: Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• February 4: 3^rd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• February 11: 4^th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 18: 5^th Round:  ME!!! @ Quilting Gail 
• February 25: 6^th Round:  Anja @ Anja Quilts
• March 25:   Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

We have Sponsors!

We reached out to several companies that we all LOVE and many of them agreed to sponsor the SAHRR 2026!!! (That means prizes for YOU!!!). We will keep track of all of the participants that link to our Linky parties each week. We will make a list and use a random number generator to choose the winners for each prize! So, if you link up to 3 Linky parties, you will have 3 opportunities to win! If you don’t have a blog or Instagram account, contact me, or one of the other co-hosts, and we will post your SAHRR on our blog. This way you still have an opportunity to win!

• Lumin Fabrics (Island Batik) – 3 Fat Quarter Bundles: Playful Posies, Geometric Symphony and Paradise Palms
• Hobbs Batting: wool batt
• Sew Fresh Quilts: 3 patterns
• Aurifil Thread
• Oliso mini Iron, mat and carrying case
• Fat Quarter Shop: Gift certificate and 2 charm packs
• Devoted Quilter: 2 patterns
• Songbird Designs: 1 pdf pattern
• Grace & Piece Co: t-shirt
• Quilter’s Dream: 8 assorted batts
• Crafty Quilter: 2 patterns

The Link Party

This is where you can Link up and show us your Centre block. We want the actual block that you will be using. It’s OK if you change your mind, but if you don’t use what you show us, we won’t be counting it as an entry to join.

The Link Party will be open until midnight (Pacific time) on January 20.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!

Happy Quilting!    
Gail