"Make what you want to make, and make it the way you want to make it." Gwen Marston

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

SAHR - November/December

 Stay-at-Home-Robiners!  Is anyone out there still playing along?  By now you should have your center block, a border incorporating triangles, and then a border incorporating log cabin construction, setting on point if appropriate.  Because I had problems getting my 'on point'  math to work out, I will be giving a range of widths for all future borders to make it a little easier to get the math to work.  Most of you are probably much better at math than I am.  And of course, since it's YOUR quilt, you can make any changes you like!  Our next border will be a 4-6" border incorporating either pinwheels or hourglass blocks.  You can use floaters between rounds whenever necessary or desired.  I inserted a floater before my log cabin border, but I won't need one this time. 

Speaking of log cabin borders, where was this one when I was searching last month?
Here are some samples I found with either pinwheels and/or hourglass blocks.




Click on any of them to enlarge.  I hope these give you some ideas!  This last example also has several samples of floaters.  Feel free to add them whenever you need to seperate busy borders.  Have fun!!  I can't wait to see how you're coming along.  Be sure to post your projects on the flickr site.  If you still need an invite, leave a comment here and I'll send the invite to you.  Remember - this is a two month assignment.  We will take the month of December off so everyone can work on all their little secret projects and spend time with their families. I plan to get mine done soon so I can kick back and relax.

Counting my blessings......Sunny 

12 comments:

  1. Oh thank goodnes we have two months. gives me plenty of time to catch up and then do the new border.
    I can never get pinwheels to match in the middle. Can you???

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  2. Oh good! I think we really need those two months to get caught up...and blog...and make gifts...etc. LOL

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  3. Thanks Sunny , this sounds like a nice addition and the extra time is welcomed as I still need to finish the log cabin blocks .

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  4. Hi Sunny first of all I am sorry to read of your fathers passing may he rest in peace I had popped over for a bit a couple of days ago,but didn't have time to leave a comment. I love the examples you have posted I have never made a round robin before one of these days I wish to make one ,I wish you many plesant hours of quilting and wish all is well with you.xoxo theodora

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  5. I just visited the flicker site; those are going to be some pretty quilts!!!

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  6. Wow, those are pretty samples! Just popped over to the Flickr group - there are going to be some really pretty quilts - I can't wait to see your :)!!! Hugs!

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  7. hi Sunny, I have to take a few months off. Sorry to hear about your father.

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  8. I'll see if I can get past my "burn out" and have some fun with this. You were right about it should be fun.

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  9. Hi Sunny - no I haven't forgotten about this and am looking forward to catching up with this - I'm sure pinwheels will look great with my butterfly theme :-). I love all the pictures you find for us to drool over!

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  10. Good Luck,Sunny with your SAHRs. Will be nice one day to watch all the postings.
    Love the shoes,socks and jeans; same here up north is getting colder and colder,part of country has even had lots of snow!
    Remember you had to change the job interview;New one soon;I hope:-)

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  11. what a lovely lot of quilts Sunny,yes lots of secret xmas sewing being done at the moment.

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  12. I love all the comments and am relieved to know that I'm not the only one who isn't caught up. I still plan to play and am glad we have some extra time. I really love all of your samples, too.

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