(Not so...) Mini Monday - SAHRR23 - The Reveal

Welcome to a happy day here at The Joyful Quilter!!  This may or may not be the finale for my 2023 Stay at Home Round Robin project.  Keep reading in order to find out.

I shared the beginning of Round SIX of my 2023 Stay At Home Round Robin (SAHRR) two weeks ago.  Be sure to visit our hostess Gail @ Quilting Gail, you won't want to miss the parade.  Her linked post reveals the completed quilts (tops) made during this year's event.

This is where I left things with Round 5...

Which will it be, Joyful???

You'll have to wait and see if mine is a quilt or a top.  :P

Gail @ Quilting Gail introduced the Stay-at-Home Round Robin.  She recruited some of her blogger friends to add to the fun.  Even though I haven't had the greatest success rate for finishing my SAHRR projects, I took another chance that I might be able to find time to work on the project this year.

But then there's the question of the surprise I mentioned...

I discovered these blocks from a variety of sources, including an adorable Santa from my friend Tiffany and one dating back to 2003, as evidenced by my Wonky Churn Dash from Krazy Kat's Kwilt Camp in July of that year:

They beg the question...

To border and add to the FRONT of the quilt OR make a fun pillow/wall hanging to coordinate with the quilt?  I suppose there's another option, as I could use all the extra blocks to cobble together a fun BACK for the quilt.  The verdict is still out on that decision.

The jokes on me!!!

After gathering these fabrics for potential sashing to bring the blocks up to size...

I promptly misplaces the blocks and haven't been able to locate them since.  Even after a thorough search of ALL the places they were last seen!  :o((

Here is how my quilt progressed...

Center Block Reveal: Gail @ Quilting Gail, I found a pair of blocks in my holiday scrap bag, but couldn't decide which gift block to go with:

Apologies that I no longer recall which friend.

From there, the project developed...

Round One - Spools with Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn By Us and a more prominent center block:

Round Two - Stars with Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life and I found a starry orphan block:

Round Three - Hourglass blocks with Chris @ Chrisknitssews 

Round Four - The Flying Geese prompt from Anja @ Anja Quilts found me adding a few more orphan blocks:

Round Five - Square in a Square with Emily @ The Darling Dogwood gave me an excuse to use a couple of smaller blocks from my holiday scrap bag, as well as another couple orphan blocks:

Round Six - Pinwheels with Gail @ Quilting Gail

That brings us to the big reveal!!!  Oh, how I was hoping for a completed quilt top this year...

With 5 days left before this post, I wasn't sure that I would be able to get this quilt together, but decide that I should at least make an attempt at assembly:

Drum roll, please...

The center column was sewn and pairs of blocks were joined and ready to make the outer columns:

Suddenly...

I was only two seams away from completion:

That task was saved for the next morning and I am pleased to present (the TOP of) my 2023 Stay at Home Round Robin:

60" x 60"

I am SEW thrilled with my Holiday SAHRR!!

Special thanks to Gail @ Quilting Gail and friends, Anja, Emily, Roseanne/Sue, Wendy and Chris, for creating this fun internet event!!  I started with someone else's cast off and enjoyed building a quilt around that lovely (rejected) Wreath in a totally different way than I might normally work (and in a totally different way than I did during the previous two events!)  Look for one final update once the quilt has been completed.

In case YOU would like to give this method of construction a try, I've sprinkled all the links for the 2023 Stay At Home Round Robin throughout this post.

I'm off to join the Link Party Parade!!  I hope you will visit, too.  Here's the LINK.  There will be finished flimsies (like my own quilt top) and completed quilts.  You won't believe how different they all are!

At the beginning of this process, I asked the following question...

"What have you gotten yourself into, Joyful???"

Well,  I can only say I am SEW thrilled that I'm a sucker for a QAL!  I have wanted a Christmas quilt for ages and thanks to the 2023 Stay at Home Round Robin, I have FINALLY made that goal a reality.  Thank you again, to those facilitators who helped me achieve my goal, as well as the quilter who donated the set of Pinwheel BOM blocks.

Until next time...

QUILT a Round (robin)!!!

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