This Friday, I have a final view of my Stay-at-Home Round Robin quilt. While I am describing it as a finish, there are several more steps I need to take before it can grace a queen-size bed. But, all the design elements are in place.
In my last post, you saw the pinwheel blocks made for Round Six. I used them as centerpieces of four large triangle sections constructed from hourglass blocks.
Viewed from this angle, the pinwheels seem to have shadow pinwheels as the hourglass blocks converge.
After sewing the corner pieces in place, the quilt still needed more width. To address this, I made strips of half-square triangles. At the centers of these strips I inserted a few more scraps from my recycled pineapple blocks, just to break up the long stretch of background fabric.
With the addition of the corners and the side strips, my quilt now measures 78 by 90.
Close up of pinwheel corner:
At this point, I admit that I am feeling a bit spent. There are problems yet to be solved (and do I add a border or not?) but there is a bright light at the end of this tunnel. Our town has a quilt shop that offers long-arm quilting services. I was overjoyed and relieved that I will not be attempting to quilt this on my domestic machine. My reservation to get the quilting done is set for June.
I will now add my scrappy SAHRR quilt to the quilt parade.
Thanks to six quilters who organized this quilt-along, especially to Quilting Gail. She is hosting the quilt parade, where you can ooh and ahh over all the beautiful tops made by participating quilters from everywhere. You can enter here:
Daily Fiber 
Incredible job on your HUGE quilt for SAHRR2023!!! You were very brave to tackle such an ambitious project during the event. Glad to see that it worked out SEW well for you!
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Thanks. It just evolved as I went along.
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I love the colorful areas and the calm areas. I think you could happily gaze at this quilt for hours.
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Thanks deb
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It’s wonderful!! I love the way you approached this year’s SAHRR,
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Thank you Chris. You and your quilty friends inspire me.
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I love it! I like the mix of color and the subtle tints in the background. As to another border–I’d say only if you need it for size. It looks fine without one.
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Glad to hear your advice. The width is really at the limit given by my long armer.
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Your quilt is stunning Great job.
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Your SAHRR is fantastic! And it’s HUGE!!!! Well done!
Thank you for linking to the SAHRR ’23 Parade!
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Your quilt looks great! Very creative use of each of the different patterns in use. Very cool 🙂
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It will be great to see how you quilt it
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