Allô and welcome 😊 It's a lovely day out - not too cold, cloudy some new snow, but not as much as yesterday! The snow made for a lousy driving day but we did what needed done, including a visit to our Poppy 🐕That means that today I'm hibernating in my studio. Yay!
Easy curves for SAHRR Round 4
Today it's Wendy, from Pieceful Wendy who is hosting and deciding on our theme. Yes, it was curves. Not my idea of fun, so I read a few posts and found Brenda's choice of block excellent. It's a faux Cathedral Window. I made 4 of them based on the tutorial Brenda mentioned. I now have another 8" block.
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| Faux Cathedral Windows |
Here is the SAHRR so far.
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| Four round of blocks and the centre block |
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| Another look at some of the blocks |
What I learned
- I'm not used to watching videos to learn to make a new block. Now I know why I prefer a written tutorial with images. The video was fine but there were important details that if you didn't pick up while watching, made life a little harder. For instance:
- The folded fabric needed to be folded right sides out (or wrong sides together). Since the author was using batiks, that didn't come up.
- Then, when the block was put together, it was sewn on the side, not the bottom.
- I'm just including these notes so that I'll have a guide if I ever want to make more of these blocks.
- I have no idea where I'm going with these blocks so far. I think that I'd like to make more of the round 3 Chicago geese blocks, although possibly smaller.
- I'm just going to let it percolate - maybe inspiration will hit!
- I made this block and linked up quickly, to avoid my error of last week of forgetting to link up! If you didn't see it, here's the link.
- I'm in the process of sewing on the binding to the Cowboy panel quilt. I didn't post about is since I want to have only one final post, including the washed version. That's next6 week's post!
Related links
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| Round 4 |
- SAHRR 2026 – Round Four: Wendy Threw us a Curve! Songbird Designs
- Easy Cathedral Windows by Bits and Pieces Quilting
- SAHRR Border 4 hosted by Wendy at Pieceful Wendy
SAHRR so far
- Project Quilting & SAHRR Round 3, February 07, 2026
- A Quilter's Cove QAL Link-up and SAHRR, January 31, 2026
- SAHRR Round 1 - hour-glass block, January 26, 2026
- Starting Things and I Quilted This!, January 15, 2026
Linking parties
I'll be linking to many fun linking parties including the SAHRR linking party with Wendy. Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday, Sew & Tell, Needle & Thread Thursday, Put your foot down, Off The Wall Friday, Finished (Or Not) Friday, Patchwork & Quilts, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2026, Oh Scrap!,
Thanks so much Denise for featuring my block on Put your foot down!
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Gwyned Trefethen made a wonderful art piece for last week's Project Quilting. Channeling Andy Warhol is machine embroidered and the background is FMQ using the McTavish design. You'll want to check out Gwyned's post for more details!
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| Channeling Andy Warhol by Gwyned |
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| A close-up of Channeling Andy Warhol by Gwyned |
Gail of Quilting Gail finished and quilted a quilt for a very special friend. You'll want to read the story of this special quilt on Gail's post.
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| The friend's finished quilt by Gail |
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| Details of the ruler quilting by Gail |
Sally of Crafts, Cavies and Cooking made a cute seahorse postcard for the latest Project Quilting challenge.
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| Sally's Seahorse Postcard |
Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts made an amazing Rock & Roll t-shirt quilt. You'll want to read her post to find out how she did it. I love the checkerboard coping strips that are also made of t-shirt fabric.
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| An amazing Rock & Roll t-shirt quilt by Preeti |
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| Details from Preeti's t-shirt quilt |
If you missed it, I made a small quilt for Project Quilting last week. It's based on my quilting goals for 2026 - scrappy, small, playful and experimental.
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| Goals for 2026 by Andrée |
It's now your turn 😍
It will be interesting to see how you put the blocks together. I also prefer a written illustrated tutorial over a Youtube video. I have to pause and rewind too often, happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gretchen, yes, I'm the same with the videos. Thanks so much for dropping by. Take care.
DeleteWell, I'm delighted you gave curves a go! It will be fun to see how your quilt comes together - nothing wrong with letting it percolate! You have a lot of fun projects going on!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy. I'm glad that the curves came out ok. I'm now on the last side of hand-sewing last years SAHRR. Once washed, it'll be great to take the final photo shoot and mentally finish it!
DeleteI love your pretty Cathedral windows! All your blocks are really pretty, it's going to be a lovely quilt. I agree with you about video tutorials. I usually have to turn on and follow along with the transcript or play it back over and over.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda, I love those colours. I'm looking forward to the next 2 rounds and putting everything together.
DeleteThose curves turned out great! I've seen a demonstration of how to make those blocks, too, but would have to see it again (and again!) before I could actually make some. You have a fun collection of blocks there, Andree!
ReplyDeleteThanks Diann. It took me a while to get it correct, and that was the easy version! I have made some real cathedral window pot holders but I really don't remember how I made them...and I was going to make more but I think I'll look for something else instead :-)
DeleteI didn't consider cathedral windows as a block, but yours turned out beautifully!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate. It's so much fun seeing other people's ideas. I'm seriously considering making the curvy log cabin block quilt based on Linda in Texas block. Canuck Quilter has a great post on the placement options that could be lots of fun.
DeleteI like the faux cathedral windows.
ReplyDeleteThanks Betty, it was fun to make once I got the hang of it.
DeleteVery smart to make notes for the future. Your grouping of blocks is looking wonderful together!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Yvonne. Heading out to see yours :-)
DeleteYour curves worked well. Congrats. It will be fun to see how we all wrangle our blocks after the prompts have been completed. Like you, I don't yet have a hard and fast idea for the finish.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lynn, it's fun to play and it will be a challenge to solve!
DeleteI love your curved SAHRR block. That faux Cathedral Window was a great idea and it looks really nice together with the others :)
ReplyDeletePut my hand in the air for a written tutorial, too! I'm like you and many of your commenters. Your Cathedral Window block will be joining a fine collection of blocks--look forward to seeing how you'll put it together. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteoh fun!!! You are really enjoying the SAHRR!
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