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SAHRR Round Two

January 24, 2022

It’s Monday, and time to share my SAHRR Round Two border. If you’re visiting my site for the first time, SAHRR stands for Stay at Home Round Robin, a fun quilt along hosted by Quilting Gail. Each week, one of the hosts will share the next border to be added to your center block. The whole quilt is done by you (rather than the traditional round robin, where you would send your quilt to the next person for each round). The Round One border was curves, and our host was Anja. You can see her quilt, and all the participants’ quilts over at Anja Quilts. 

Today it’s all about the SAHRR Round Two border. Our host this week is Emily of The Darling Dogwood. Emily chose diamonds for the SAHRR Round Two border. She is also hosting this week’s linky party, so make sure you go to her site and link up your Round Two border when you have it finished! 

I’ve chosen to go a little different path for my SAHRR quilt this year, and I’m making it all improv using solid fabrics. You can read about my first border here.

I had to do a little pondering about how to make improv diamonds. I realized I hadn’t made them before. I’ll show you how I made them, but let me show you my diamond border first. With this border added, my quilt measures 24″ square. 

Border 2 for my SAHRR, hosted by Quilting Gail - piecefulthoughts.com

I chose to lay my diamonds the long way around the quilt. I liked that look better. Actually, I was thinking I would trim the diamond blocks down a bit when I was finished, but in the end I left them the original size and turned them on their sides. Here’s how I made them: 

Making improv diamond blocks, Step One - piecefulthoughts.com

Using four 2-1/2″ squares, I made an angled cut (no ruler) on the lower left of two squares, and the lower right on the other two. I discarded the small pieces. 

Then I sewed scrap pieces to those angled sides.. They look a bit odd, but it will work. 

Improv Diamond blocks, Step 2 - piecefulthoughts.com

I trimmed them back to the original size of 2-1/2 inches. 

Improv Diamonds, Step 3 - piecefulthoughts.com

Then I laid them out in an arrangement I liked, and stitched them together. (Note that I didn’t take a photo of the block all stitched; I figured you’d know what that will look like.)

The blocks went together quickly. I did nest the center seam when I sewed the two halves together. My points do not match because I cut the angles without a ruler. The block was squared to 4-1/2″. 

I enjoyed seeing all the first borders last week. It will be fun to see how you add your SAHRR Border Two this week. 

Happy Stitching! 

Wendy

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