Wednesday, January 5, 2022

New Year, New Quilt Alongs!

With the beginning of a new comes lots of new quilt alongs!  While I am trying to limit new projects, I do find that I get energized from new projects, so I have a few quilt alongs that I will be joining at the start of this year. 

The first is the Stay At Home Round Robin, or SAHRR.  This is the creation of Gail from Quilting Gail.  It's based on a traditional Round Robin quilt, where you would make a center and then pass your quilt on to another quilter who adds a row, and so on, but instead *you* make all the rows.  Gail has assembled a small group of bloggers, including me, to pick out a theme for each row.  We start on Monday, January 10th and there will be weekly link-ups if you want to join in.  Gail covers more details here.

 

Next, I'll be sewing along with Laura of Slice of Pi Quilts for her Exploding Heart quilt along.  I've loved this pattern since she first revealed it.  She did a quilt along last year and I was tempted to join in but I had too much on my plate at the time.  She's doing round 2 this year and I just bought my copy of the pattern.  She starts on January 6th; you can get details and sign up for the weekly emails here.   


Last year, I started Boho Heart, a Jen Kingwell pattern, in a quilt along with Anne of Said With Love.  I did not finish it but I've been slowly plugging away at the 108 (!) blocks.  Anne is doing round 2 starting on February 2nd, so I'll pick it up again in earnest.  Details are here if you are interested.  I'd be working on finishing this one even if there weren't a quilt along, so it's a bonus to have the encouragement of other quilters working on the same pattern.

There are lots of other projects starting at the beginning of the year, too, but I'm stopping here. Too many to keep up with get overwhelming, but I am excited about all three of these. 



10 comments:

  1. I'm looking forward to the start of SAHRR, and I think I have my center block in mind, now - haha. You've also reminded me that I need to get my Jen Kingwell quilt to Connie for finishing this year, so I'm adding that to my list!

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  2. I am not doing any QAL's but I will enjoy watching yours come together:)

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  3. Those are all great projects. Looks like you'll have lots of fun working on those projects.

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  4. Lots of great projects! I am doing SAHRR and was tempted by the Exploding Hearts but not sure I have the fabric and justifying more right now seems foolish. I am impressed by the Jen Kingwell. I want to do Happy Villages, but have yet to put that on a real calendar...maybe 2023.

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  5. Looks like fun projects. You can use them in my Stashbuster challenge, details tomorrow.

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  6. Great projects! I am doing the SAHRR this year too! Should be fun. I love that Exploding Hearts pattern. It's gorgeous!

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  7. Sweet projects, Emily!!! I'll be cheering you on!

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  8. You have some busy projects planned. The Boho heart looks amazing! It will be fun to see yours!
    Happy Quilting! :-)

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  9. You've picked some fun quilt alongs to sew with. The exploding heart is really cool. I'm going to try to knock back the UFO list some, so I can play more next year. I'll just have to watch your projects come together this year.

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  10. Have fun with these QALs, Emily! I'm joining you for the SAHRR again this year. Can't wait to see how the rounds progress!

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