Eva’s SAHRR Center Block
Today I’m happy to show you Eva’s SAHRR Center Block. Eva and I met through my blog. She lives in another country, and we’ve never met face to face (yet!). We keep in touch by email, and have many things in common. This is her third year participating in the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) sew along. I have offered to post her progress on my blog, since she does not have a blog of her own. I’m so excited she is sewing along with us this year.
Once again, Eva has come up with a creative center block. You. can see her SAHRR quilts from the past two years here and here. Here is her block for the SAHRR 2025.
Eva says she had some fun mixing cotton prints with batiks to get the color of the center block that she wanted. She likes the traditional churn dash block where the corner blocks are all the same and it is not a directional block, so it’s easier for her to work with and add the borders. For 2025, she wanted to mix improv and modern quilting with a traditional block. I think she’s got a good thing going on, don’t you? I can’t wait to see the borders she adds each week!
I’ll be linking up this post with Quilting Gail. Make sure you remember to link up your blocks with Gail this week, too, so we can all see your center block!
Wendy
SAHRR Center Block Reveal
31 Comments
Carol Andrews
Eva’s block is lovely!
Eva
Carol, thank you so much!
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
This is a lovely block. I really like the colours and I’m looking forward to seeing this grow 🙂
[Also, to Eva, last tear you messaged me through the contact form on my blog but there was something wrong with the email address you used so my reply kept bouncing back. If you want to message me again, I’d love to hear from you but please check your email so I can reply, Janine from Rainbow Hare]
Eva
Thank you Janine, I will do so. Love your rabbit… we will have fun the next weeks!
The Joyful Quilter
It’s going to be SEW much fun watching Eva’s quilt grow!
Eva
Hopefully I can fullfill expectation … 🙂
Kate
A very pretty start to Eva’s SAHRR.
Eva
Kate.. :-))) thank you for watching!
texasquiltgal
What a pretty block! I love Eva’s color choices, and the churn dash is such a great block, one of my favorites.
Eva
Thank you so much, for your kind remark. It took me a little time to understand and see the form of the pot in which the butter was done from milk.. so a churn dash of the old days.
Laura Kate
Eva’ center block is exciting. This is the second green and purple combination I have seen today. Is this combo a thing?
Eva
Laura, ohh.. thats interesting, may be because it is oposite side on the colour wheel and matching?
Laura Kate
Maybe, Eva. Glad to hear from you.
Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Looks great, Eva, and thanks for sharing her progress with us, Wendy!
Eva
Thank you Yvonne, following your blog as well. All the best for the new job. As a full time worker I know how hard it is to do our lovely sewing and working.. you have as well 26 hours a day? 🙂
Barbara J Stanbro
I wouldn’t have put those fabrics together, but it turned out great! Bold choices!
Eva
Hi Barbara.. no risk, no fun… :-))
marissthequilter
Wow Eva, this is a striking and bright block. A wonderful centrepiece for your quilt
Quilting is in my Blood
The very center of this Center Block really draws the eye in. I look forward to seeing what Eva creates this year.
Eva
I try to go out of my comfort zone… and do not overthink to much this time… let it flow….
My inspiration is a book of Gwen Marston and often I remember to Iris Apple! How grey I am if I look at these ladies!
Diann@LittlePenguinQuilts
That’s a fun block! I love those colors. Great start, Eva!
Eva
Thank you Diann!! 🙂
quiltinggail
I’m excited to hear that Eva is joining us again!!! I LOVE seeing her creative style come alive!! This is a fantastic centre block!! Thank you for linking her block to the SAHRR ’25 Centre Block!!
kathleenmcmusing
I love your block, Eva! It is so much fun – the piecing and the fabrics.
slamminthescreendoor
I love the colors in Eva’s block. I look forward to following her progress, and everyone else’s. I’ve joined for the first time and just know I’m going to learn a lot from the others.
Eva
Thank you! Oh yes, the last two years it was fun and learning.. or learning with fun? :-))))
Great that you are participating!
Brenda @ Songbird Designs
I love purple and green together, Eva! Great choice for a center block!
Eva
Brenda, thank you! I have no plan, only pulled out a box of fabrics I want to work with.. no plan, individual from week to week!
tierneycreates: a fusion of textiles and smiles
Very creative block!
Eva
Tierney, you are as well a great inspiration for me and I am a big fan of you and the woodworker! Store the quiltfolk from Oregon like my eyeapple… thank you for looking at my center block!
tierneycreates: a fusion of textiles and smiles
Thanks so much 🙂