Welcome to my first post for the 2026 Stay At Home Round Robin! If you would like additional information, please see my Monday Musings Post.
The prompt for today is to choose your center block. It can be any size you like – even an orphan block (or two!!) After changing my mind a few times while I was going through a cleanup in search of my “binding bag,” I decided to use an orphan block for the center block this year. This block is 12″ square. I will probably make the remainder of my blocks 4 to 6 inches, to keep this quilt “kinda” small, and will use scraps from previous Island Batik projects. This is a foundation pieced block and was part of a project I made for Electric Quilt, introducing one of their new EQ add-ons.
Once you decide on your center block, you are done for this week! Write your post, or snap an instagram pic, and head over to GAIL’s BLOG for the linky party.
Next, visit each of the co-hosts and take a look at their center blocks. Here is the schedule and links to all the co-host blogs!
| January 14 | Everyone shares their center blocks | Gail @ Quilting Gail |
| January 21 | Round 1 | Brenda @ Songbird Designs – you are here! |
| January 28 | Round 2 | Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing |
| February 4 | Round 3 | Emily @ The Darling Dogwood |
| February 11 | Round 4 | Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts |
| February 18 | Round 5 | Gail @ Quilting Gail |
| February 25 | Round 6 | Anja @ Anja Quilts |
| March 25 | IT’s A PARADE! | Everyone shows their finish @ Quilting Gail !! |
There will be PRIZES!!
We reached out to several companies that we all LOVE and many of them agreed to sponsor the SAHRR 2026!!! We will keep track of all of the participants that link to our Linky parties each week. We will make a list and use a random number generator to choose the winners for each prize! So, if you link up to 3 Linky parties, you will have 3 opportunities to win! If you don’t have a blog or Instagram account, contact me, or one of the other co-hosts and we will post your SAHRR on our blog. This way you still have an opportunity to win! Here are some of the prizes you could win!
- Lumin Fabrics (Island Batik) – 3 Fat Quarter Bundles: Playful Posies, Geometric Symphony and Paradise Palms
- Hobbs Batting: wool batt
- Sew Fresh Quilts: 3 patterns
- Aurifil Thread
- Oliso mini Iron, mat and carrying case
- Fat Quarter Shop: Gift certificate and 2 charm packs
- Devoted Quilter: 2 patterns
- Songbird Designs: 1 pdf pattern
- Grace & Piece Co: t-shirt
- Quilter’s Dream: 8 assorted batts (we will give two at a time!)
- Crafty Quilter (Julie Cefalu): 2 patterns
Now it’s time to head over to Gail’s Blog and link up so you will be eligible for the prizes! Thanks for joining us. I will see you next week!
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Hello! New here. What a pretty block! Looks like I’ll be coming back to read and see more!
happy weekend!
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Donna
Thank you, Donna! Glad to have you stop by anytime. Have a great week.
I love this centre block. I’m looking forward to seeing what you add next 🙂
This is a beautiful Center block!! wowzers!!!
A beautiful block, Brenda! I just love it. Is it available any where? It’s going to be a wonderful SAHRR year. Blessings,
Oh that is a gorgeous block Brenda! I am going to join in this year… I say that every year but I am going to go work on my center block today! xx
This will be an amazing SAHRR year! So much wonderfull centers! Full of colours that have power. We need some motivation in this grey time of the year.. rainy, grey, foggy and.. January… but the SAHRR helps to come out of the winter depression. Your center is a good hidden beauty. Good you searched and deep dive into your drawers!
Hi Brenda, that’s going to make a great centre block! Looking forward to seeing what comes up!
Oooh how pretty, Brenda. I look forward to following your progress on the Round Robin challenge this year. It will be fun to see all of those colorful scraps come together into a beautiful quilt.
Thanks, Melisa!! It will definitely be scrappy!
This is an exciting center block! It will be fun to see you use the smaller blocks in conjunction with it! Seeing all the first blocks makes me so excited about SAHRR 2026.
Brenda I am in love with your center block! It’s going to be fun to see what you do each round. Perfect fabric pull 😉
Thanks, Carol. It will be interesting to see how all these scraps play together!
Your centre block is pretty cool!!! LOVE it! I’m so glad that you are one of the hosts for SAHRR!!! Happy Quilting!
Oo la la! I love this block, Brenda! Looking forward to seeing how this comes together!
What a beautiful block! It looks like the aperture of a camera about to close and take a picture of that center star. 🙂
Beautiful block and technically difficult. It is a shining center for what will come next.
Thank you, Laura! It really wasn’t too hard to make with the FPP method!
What a pretty block Brenda! Glad it won’t be an orphan any more. 😀
Thank you so much, Linda! It’s found a home now!!
That is a gorgeous block! This is going to be so fun to see what everyone makes. Thanks for hosting again this year!
Very cool center block. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s come together.
Thank you, Kate! I always look forward to seeing them come together and enjoy seeing how everyone interprets the prompts!
WOW, Brenda that is one gorgeous orphan block for the center of you quilt. I love everything about it, the design, the colors, the movement. Looking forward to seeing how your quilt progresses and what the quilt looks like in the end.