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SAHRR 2024 Border One: Grateful

Posted on by Laura Kate

I’m grateful to Pieceful Wendy for choosing the signature block for the 1st round of this year’s Stay at Home Round Robin. I’m also grateful to myself for pre-planning this project instead of winging it each week. You see above some of the fabrics I have painted (along with a nice purple solid.)

Here’s a few more that I painted. Most are commercially printed fabrics. I just added a few layers of color using Jacquard Dye-Na-Flo fabric paint.

These will soon appear in my SAHRR quilt rounds.

Okay – fabrics are at the ready, time to sew.

In reviewing my project map, I see that the colors purple and red are to dominate the first round, which will be attached to my center panel’s right and bottom sides. The right side will extend the trees of the panel into the border. The bottom will represent the forest fire. 

I started with the trees. They will go in the center strip of the signature blocks. I cut fabrics that looked tree-like and some smokey purple fabric and made a strip set. Then I cut some purple squares to use in the corners.

That’s the right side done. For the bottom, I got out some flame-like fabric that used to be part of a dress that no longer fit. It was cut up a few years ago and saved for just this moment. How fortunate for me.

Do you feel the heat yet?

After making a corner block that integrated the two sides, I sewed the blocks together.

Jan 29: After viewing a photograph of my work, I swapped out one of the fabrics in the corner block. Then I joined up the first round to the center panel. 

I also decided to use white fabric with a marble print as sashing around each group of blocks. SAHHR Round one is made of 4 inch finished blocks. My quilt is now 16″ and ready for the next round.

Be sure to check out all the SAHRR 2024 participants’ projects posted at the Linky party. You can find that HERE.

Author:

One of six children, I was raised by a busy mom, who instilled in me a love of fabric. Though I learned to sew and knit at a young age, it was the arrival of my first grandchild that pushed me into action. A long-time knitter, I am now ready to explore all things fiber.

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