(Not So) Mini Monday - SAHRR22 - Round 2

Welcome to this week's edition of (Not so) Mini Monday... a little bit early!!  The timing of the SAHRR requires that I link up each round's progress no later than Sunday night or else link the previous week's progress in the link for the current round.  Monday is release day for each new round and its accompanying Link Party.  Does that make sense?

What's on tap for this week, Joyful???

Emily at The Darling Dogwood proposed with diamonds.

Here's what I had to say about that...

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but SEW not this quilter's best friend!! Given the fact that you were thinking "outside the box" for your definition of diamonds, maybe I will, too. Thanks for helping me avoid a panic attack, Emily!

It's SEW good that she has us thinking outside the box!  I remember that from last year's event.  She "dumbs it down" for lack of a better descriptor, 

I started out this week with:

When popping in the photo above, I got an idea for this week's border.  I'm off to rummage through the scrap bins...

First...

I thought square in a square, but opted to continue with my quasi-improv technique by adding flip corner on bottom left and elongated HSTs for bottom addition!!!  :o))

Here's a closer look at the scraps I selected:

Next...

I cut my new border strips, a few appropriately sized squares and sewed up the new additions:

Then...

All that was left was to add them to my SAHRR block:

Here...

Is how Round TWO turned out with improv sew and flip diamond in the lower left corner.  Again, I used the corner that was already on my starting block as the starting point for this addition:

Until next time...

Sew aROUND!!!