SAHRR Border 1

It’s Monday and it’s time to show you my SAHRR Border 1. Kathleen is our host this week, and she is giving us options! I love options, don’t you? You’ll want to visit Kathleen McMusing today and read her post for those options. I’m going to show you the one I chose to do. Don’t forget that you will link up at Kathleen’s blog this week! You’ll also want to check out the posts from the other co-hosts, for more inspiration:

It has been so much fun to visit each of your blogs and see the center blocks! We are a creative bunch, and this is going to be another fun sew along! Here is my center block, and you can read more about it in last week’s post.

I have added a coping border, as you will see shortly. I added coping borders after each round for my 2023 SAHRR quilt, and I liked that look, so I’m going to do it again this year.

I also want to keep my borders small for my quilt, so my border this week is 2.5″ finished. There is no other reason for the smaller borders other than it just feels right. I don’t plan out my SAHRR quilts, I make them up as I go! I have learned that enjoy just going with the flow and quilting in the moment. So, with a small border, making a teensy traditional block was just not in my mental wheelhouse – LOL. I did make an effort, however, and made a few Wagon Wheel blocks for a block name with my initial. Here’s where that took me.

Those little wheels are just shy of 3″ in diameter, and I planned to raw edge applique them to a background square. They are just a bit bigger than I want for this border, so they’ve been set aside and may show up in a future border. We’ll see! .

In the end, rather than making a block, I made a strip of wedges – Wedges for Wendy. It was easier than doing the mental math and teensy sewing for the border size I wanted.

The background for my quilt is Moda Grunge in Faded Denim. The wedges are all from my scrap bins. I pulled the reds, oranges and greens because those colors are in the center star. I don’t want to limit my colors too much, so I may add some other colors for each border. Here’s the coping border added.

I decided to use bold colors to balance the black star blades in the center block. The coping border is Kona School Bus, one of my favorite colors – orange! It definitely brings energy to the quilt, and it makes me grin each time I walk into my studio.

So that’s my take on Kathleen’s prompt for our SAHRR Border 1. Now off you go! I cannot wait to see the borders you add to those fantastic center blocks!

Oh – wait! Here is the schedule for the SAHRR as you stitch along with us!

January 13: See the center blocks here! .
January 20: 1^st Round: Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing – Link up here this week!
January 27: 2^nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
February 3: 3^rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail
February 10: 4^th Round: Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
February 17: 5^th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
February 24: 6^th Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
March 24: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!