SAHRR 2024, a flimsy at last

I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed SAHRR 2024. It’s just a wonderfully happy and productive experience! I love the sharing and inspiration and commenting. This was my 3rd year, and I hope there are many more to come.

So what with life and all I do not have a complete quilt, but the flimsy (quilt top) is done, the backing is cut and the batting has been fluffed. Next us layering, basting and quilting followed with the binding and quilt label. I plan on simple quilting, probably crosshatching on the sloth and straight-ish lines on the foliage.

I’m happy with how Round 6 turned out with alternating plus and X blocks. I added some sketch stitching in black to the sloth for a bit more form. The only other change was switching out 2 blocks, but it hard to see where, so that’s fine.

Just a close up of blocks

It’s at 78” X 59”, plenty big for my friend and hopefully for her huge “puppy”.

Puppy cuddling with dad

Thank you to the SAHRR 2024 crew 🎈🎈🎈

• January 22: 1st Round:   Signature Blocks 4” finished, Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

• January 29: 2nd Round:  2 Colors only, 4” finished, top and bottom only, Anja @ Anja Quilts

• February 5: 3rd Round: Triangles, Lattice from Painting Paris quilt on one side, Emily @ The Darling Dogwood

• February 12: 4th Round:  Square-in-a-square or on pointe 6” finished, Brenda @ Songbird Designs

• February 19:  5th Round: 4, any representation of 4, I used 4 patch, 6” finished, Gail @ Quilting Gail

• February 26:  6th Round: Letters & Numbers, X blocks and my choice of plus blocks, 4” finished, Kathleen @ https://kathleenmcmusing.com

• March 18: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

God bless! See you next year!

Blessings,

Janie

Isabella’s Whimsy

SAHRR 2024, Rs 5 & 6?

Another week behind, so I’m not going to the Linky Party, but I will share my completed Round 5.

The mission was “4”, used in any way you want. I made 4-patch, 6 1/2” squares. I added a row to both the top and bottom for the length I want. I added a column on the right side to visually balance the weight caused by the 8” wide Vine from Round 3 (triangles).

My husband agreed with the balance once I convinced him to forego the tape measure and go with his heart 💚💜

Round 6 is in the works. Previously I hinted at a surprise to come. I love little plus blocks, so my plan was to make a final round of +s. Then the challenge for R 6 was announced as Letters or Numbers. After thinking about it I decided to make some X blocks to alternate with the + blocks; the best thing about this idea is that the + blocks won’t get lost running one into the other. I’m using the slash method for both blocks; I wasn’t able to find instructions online (search followed misremembering what I did on another project a few years ago). Thank goodness for trial and error!

I’m planning on posting R 6 next Sunday or Monday…wouldn’t you know it the round with the most time demanding blocks of the quilt and the largest number of blocks 😆

Blessings,

Janie

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SAHRR, Round 5?

Well, it has been quite a week, and nothing to share on The Happy Sloth Quilt. Some doctor appointments (all good), first steps at putting my little house on the market (also good) and a train trip to visit my son’s family (the best!). Just no time for quilting.

Let’s see what I can get done next week.

Blessings,

Janie, Isabella’s Whimsy

We finally took our Christmas picture. 🎄

SAHRR 2024, Round 4

Round 4, Square-in-a-Square quilt block, from Brenda @ Songbird Designs.

I love Square-in-a-Square blocks. This love first started in October 2021 when I found a quilt at a vintage shop that went home with me. Here is what I mean. I was fascinated! How in the world do you get a line of “diamonds”? That is literally what I wondered with wonder. And now I know 😊

So thank you Songbird Brenda 🎶

Here is the Happy Sloth with a row and a column of 6” Square-in-a-Square blocks, lavender surrounded with green.

So, I want to fill you in on some other activities in the sloth quilt. After posting last week I added more triangles across the bottom, under the Vine and the 2-color blocks. When Wendy gave us the Signature blocks in Round 1 she suggested we stitch together the corners we had trimmed in making the blocks. I did that and made a nice bunch of about 2” Half Square Triangle blocks all in greens. They went together well and gave me some length that I needed to make up for the width of the Vine.

To add some more length this week I added a row of 4 1/2” squares in greens across the top. Now the quilt top measures 42” X 50”, nice and rectangular. There are two Rounds to go, plus my own surprise blocks as the final border; this will be a nice size quilt in the end. 😊

You can see everyone’s progress at the Linky Party on the Songbird Designs blog. There are amazing designs all made from the same blocks.

Blessings,

Janie, Isabella’s Whimsy

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SAHRR 2024, Round 3, Triangles

This week Emily @ The Darling Dogwood gave us the prompt of triangles. As always we are each free to interpret and use the prompt any way we want to.

Before this year’s SAHRR started there were 2 blocks/ block groupings that I wanted to include. One of them is a Lattice group of blocks I had made on the Painting Paris quilt.

Lattice blocks on the sides of the panel.

I have to admit it was very hard for me to make the lattices; I also have to admit I, even though I am a retired teacher, do not read instructions carefully. 😮

So this time to make things a bit simpler I did not use any striped fabric. I used lavender for the peeking-through bits, like flowers peeking through the leaves, and a lighter and darker green for the lattice proper.

Hmmm… I still didn’t do it right….🧐. Oh well. But I did use triangles to make each block. The lavenders and the light greens are two triangles stitched together in the centers. I am going to use creative license and instead of calling this a lattice (because it isn’t one), I will call it the Vine. ☺️

So at the end of Round 3 the quilt measures 36” square.

I will join this post to the Linky Party at The Darling Dogwood; you can see all of the participants’ quilts there (after it closes on Monday, February 12.

Blessings,

Janie, Isabella’s Whimsy

SAHRR 2024, Round 2

This week’s prompt from AnjaQuilts is not a specific block. Anja has asked us to use 2 colors, no more and no less for our round. This is easy for me! My friend who has asked for greens and lavender has simplified the selection for me.

I don’t think my block has a name… I just used a 4 1/2” green square and added a 3” lavender triangle to one corner.

Since I want the quilt to end up longer than it is wide, I used Round 2 to help that changeover by only adding the green and lavender squares to the top and bottom of the quilt-in-progress.

Round 2 on top and bottom to lengthen quilt.

Until next week…

Blessings,

Janie, Isabella’s Whimsy

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SAHRR 2024, Round 1

The quilt block given to us by Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts for My Quilting Life this first week was the Signature Block. It’s an old fashioned block, simple to make and easy to modify. The first time I made Signature Blocks was with SAHRR 2022 on my Red, White and Blue quilt.

Signature Blocks 2022

This year’s Sloth Quilt has mostly greens. Here are some of the Signature Blocks, each with two green fabrics, mostly in the medium value range. I made the signature space narrower than the blocks in the RW&B quilt.

Green Signature Blocks to make a leafy surround for the Sloth.

I’m still working on the last section along the bottom of the center block and still shopping for more greens and maybe some lavenders. The quilt may be close to twin size, so my stash needs some help with these two colors.

Linking up with Wendy with special thanks for this week’s Signature Block.

Blessings,

Janie @ Isabella’s Whimsy

SAHRR 2024

Stay At Home Round Robin 2024 is on! This is my 3rd year to participate. We each start with a center block of our choosing. Then once a week for 6 weeks the quilt-leaders provide a specific quilt block for us to add to our quilts that week.

So this happy sloth is my center block. My friend who is helping me plan the quilt has asked for greens and lavender for the colors.

Tomorrow we get our first block “assessment”. I can hardly wait!

Thank you to Quilting Gail and friends for lead us through this fun quilting experience.

Blessings,

Janie at Isabella’s Whimsy

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Prepping for SAHRR 2024

I’m so happy that the Stay At Home Round Robin 2024 quilting project begins next week! In the midst of Christmas preparations I started thinking about SAHRR and decided on this year’s center block and the overall quilt.

This is my 3rd year to participate.

2023 quilt

2022 quilt

For 2024 I am making a sloth quilt for a very dear friend. She loves greens and lavender and sloths, so that is what she will get!

I’ve started collecting the fabrics and am prepping the sloth 🦥 for the center block.

Ready to trace outline onto fusible web.

This is going to be so much fun!

I’m really looking forward to seeing my colleagues’ quilts!

Blessings,

Janie, Isabella’s Whimsy

Kitty in Tutu Baby Quilt

A few years ago my friend asked me to make a baby quilt for his niece. Her theme was Animals in Tutus. He chose the Hippo. A few months ago the Mama contacted me because she had a second little daughter. She chose the Kitty. Today I am sending the Kitty to her ❤️❤️
God bless babies! ❤️
Proceeds will be donated to help Ukrainian refugees. 🙏💙💛

Kitty in Tutu

Big Sister’s Hippo in Tutu

Blessings, Janie @IsabellasWhimsy