Saturday, February 07, 2026

Project Quilting & SAHRR Round 3

Hi and welcome. It's incredibly cold here so I hope that you're keeping warm wherever you are! I'm dreaming of tropical beaches - no plans, just dreaming 😊 Project Quilting's third challenge is the Year of the Horse while SAHRR's round 3 is inspired by the Animal Kingdom. Ready or not, here they are! Here's the link to this week's I Quilted This!

PQ - 17.3: Year of the Horse


This week's theme: "find your inspiration from the turn of the year, in the animal, in our hopes and desires for the near future." In this piece, I have included my hopes for my art for the upcoming year. I wrote these goals in my Plans, Goals, and Dreams for 2026 post.


This project was inspired by a quick picture that I created for that post. I really want  need to remember this, which is why I made the poster and now a quilted version.

PPT creation
Here are the details.

Scrappy

Small

Playful

Experimental

There is a nod to the Year of the Horse. Let's hope that the horse will find lovely pastures to rest at some point, and not just race ahead with blinders on.

SAHRR Round 3: Animal Kingdom


This week's Stay At Home Round Robin (SAHRR) is a block from the animal kingdom. Thanks Emily! I did a quick search and was lucky enough to find the Chicago Geese Quilt Block. It's a lovely block and includes my favourite technique - stitch and flip!

Here is my 9" block.

Chicago Geese Quilt Block

Here they are ....could be a challenge pulling them all together

The instructions I followed were for a 12" Chicago Geese block. I made this one a little smaller but I miscalculated. No surprise there! 😮 If I can't manage to make all of these blocks play nicely, I can always re-make some of them smaller....and use this year's extra blocks as next year's centre 😁

What I learned
  • I had a great time stitching up the scrappy background for my 2026 Goals piece. 
  • I really wanted to do something different and just before I started FMQ the word "scrappy", I remembered how words can be written from letters cut up from the newspaper (remember those?)
  • I'm really happy with how it came out, but I need to be more careful with my super sharp scissors - I'll be repairing the little hole I made 😔
  • For my Chicago Geese block, I really should have reviewed my calculations before starting.
  • I'm becoming quite proficient at half-square triangles and stitch and flip. It's nice to be playing with simple traditional blocks.
Related links
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties, including SAHRR's Round 3 party with Emily at the Darling Dogwood. TGIFF, Beauties Pageant, Off The Wall Friday, 

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