SAHRR 2025

SAHRR 2025 is kicking off on January 13th! Are you joining with us this year? Maybe you aren’t familiar with this at all, so let me fill you in a bit. SAHRR stands for Stay at Home Round Robin, a handy acronym making it easier to type in our posts. This is a unique type of round robin quilt, because the whole project stays home with you. This idea came about during the pandemic, when we couldn’t gather or go anywhere, and even receiving mail was worrisome. Quilting Gail came up with the idea and invited some of us to join her, and the rest is history. More details to come, but let me show you the quilts I’ve made for the SAHRR.

I thought you might enjoy seeing the variety, just in my quilts, from year to year. The 2021 center block was meant to be a mini quilt, but it became my first SAHRR quilt. The 2022 center was an orphan improv block from my stash. The 2023 center was a test block I made for Sandra Healey Designs, and I thought it was perfect for a round robin quilt. The 2024 center block is very special – it wasn’t made by me, it was made by my grandmother, and the patterned yellow fabric in the quilt top is cut from an apron my mother wore. So consider your stash, your blocks, orphan blocks, and join us!

Quilting Gail is the dynamo who organizes all of us who host the SAHRR – thank you, Gail! She puts in a lot of work to get this fun sew along off the ground, and has written up a great post with all the details – how the sew along works, the schedule, the prizes (Yay! Prizes!) and basically everything you need to know to join in. Please go visit Quilting Gail and read her post, even if you don’t think you want to join in (please join in!!). Here is the list of co-hosts for this year:

• Anja @ Anja Quilts
• Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• Emily @ The Darling Dogwood 
• Gail of @ Quilting Gail – our fearless founder!
• Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• and me!

Each year one of the hosts designs the logo for the SAHRR. This year Brenda of Songbird Designs came up with this logo. Isn’t it fantastic??

We also have sponsors again this year who are providing prizes. Each week, we have a linky party where you can link up and show your progress on your SAHRR quilt. We keep track of each participant who links up with us each week. We’ll make a list and use a random generator to choose the winners for each prize. The more you link up, the more chances you have to win.

So maybe I’ve convinced you to join in, or at least piqued your interest. Here’s what you do next. Visit Quilting Gail and read all the details of her post – she has Frequently Asked Questions and other information that will be helpful for you.

I’ve narrowed down my choices for a center block, and I’m eager to begin sewing those borders!

Wendy