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SAHRR 2026 Round Three: Coati Parade

Posted on by Laura Kate

Imagine my excitement when Emily, of Darling Dogwood, chose Animal Kingdom for this week’s round! I had already decided to include a handful of animals to appear in my Costa Rica quilt. All I needed to do was choose one.

I picked this coati as my star attraction.

Bill captured this coati (pronounced co-ah-tee) as it stood alone foraging near the villa. The camera motion caused it to look up, straight at the lens. The hanging tongue could be a gesture of disapproval (!)

A few days later, an entire troupe of coati marched across the driveway from left to right. Bill collected a bonanza of photographs.

For my round of animals, I will use the photogenic coati in a center block made in applique technique. For the rest of the round, I plan to cut a stencil and paint fabric in an approximation of the procession. This animal will be my model for cutting the stencil.

Its posture is very typical of the group. It looks intent on forward motion, head down, tail up and eyes forward.

First the applique. In my stash was a piece of fabric I had painted for another project. The colors are well suited for this one.

After resizing my photograph to fit the block I had cut (5 inch square finished,) I proceeded:

  1. Cut out subject from photo to determine positioning. 2. Applique pieces cut, assembled and fused to background. 3. Applique stitched down. Details added. I used different colors of Micron pen, mostly brown and black.

I chose a strip of pale fabric printed with yellow horizontal lines as the background for my stencil.

Strip to the left of center. r
Strip to the right.

Having fun with the clownish properties of the coati, I painted my stencils in a variety of patterns using turquoise, violet, brown and black Jacquard textile paint. Aren’t they cute?

And here is my Round Three row, positioned below one of the tile rows.

This round was very fun, once I had honed in on my choices. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to check out Emily’s post, which holds the InLinkz site where SAHRR participants posted their results for Round 3.

And consider visiting the six SAHRR 2026 hosts at their homepages. Here is the list.

January 14th: Center/Centre blocks Gail @ Quilting Gail

January 21st: First Round: hourglass units   Brenda @ Songbird Designs

January 28th: Second Round: make it a double  Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing

February 4th:  Third Round: Animal Kingdom Emily @ The Darling Dogwood

February 11th:  Fourth Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

February 18th: Fifth Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail 

February 25th: Sixth Round:  Anja @ Anja Quilts

March 25th:  Parade of Finishes showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

See you around next time,

Laura

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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.

14 thoughts on “SAHRR 2026 Round Three: Coati Parade”

    1. Looking at choices that others made, it is clear that the parameters are broad enough to include lots of alternatives. I just really like working with animals. Thanks for commenting.

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  4. I enjoyed reading your post, seeing how you make use of your painted fabrics in creating these borders. I clicked on each of the coati-in-progress to see the details: I’m quite impressed with how carefully each is rendered. But I don’t see the tongue! Will that be in the final quilt? 🙂

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  7. Thanks for sharing your creative process with this round. I have never painted my fabric but it sounds like lots of fun. and it is also the first time for me to meet one of Costa Rica’s animals. This is indeed a fun journey.

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