This is an Emergency Post of the Eastmond Quilting System (with apologies to the radio emergency broadcasts we get occasionally). But I just realized that the deadline for the:

Stay At Home Round Robin

is tonight, and I had to get this posted so I could link up here. I first read about this last year, on Janine’s blog, Rainbow Hare, and loved following along on her progress. She’s doing this again.

And then Yvonne, of Quilting Jetgirl, put up her center block, and it is perfectly wonderful — an Yvonne block through and through.

Just last night, as I was wandering into walls, thinking I should just give the quilting all up and become a geneologist or something, this morning, JOIN THE SAHRR! came as a flash of lightning. Or something. Here are my two options:

— OR —

One has a vision for the future, clear, crisp, with the color scheme decided upon. It’s like a supersonic plane flying through the clouds into the distance, or to quote Buzz Lightyear: to infinity and beyond!

The other one is slightly misshapen, duplicating shapes and colors, with a mix of prints that actually might just allow for more freedom. It’s more of a meander through the meadow, the woods, and possibly, the shopping mall. And it will allow me to interrogate (in the academic sense), the orphan block box:

Sadly, I have another box of orphans, too.

So I’m going with the second one, the four blocks made in a Jen Kingwell class. (Well, started in the Jen Kingwell class and finished at home on my sewing machine.)

Thank you to the hosts and organizers of this Stay At Home Round Robin. It’s the best of all worlds, where we meet new friends, create our own bits for our quilts with their prompts, and no trips to the Post Office. Gail, of Quilting Gail, has more details on her post.

The details, from Gail’s blog:

Here are my blogging co-hosts in the order of what we will be doing and the linky parties we will be hosting each week. (There will only be one linky party each week … and we’ll direct you to it …)

• January 14   Each of the co-leaders will be sharing their centre blocks (you will have to visit each of their blogs to see them). I will host the first linky party where you can show your centre block.
• January 21:  1^st Round:    Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• January 28:  2^nd Round: Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• February 4: 3^rd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• February 11: 4^th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 18: 5^th Round:  ME!!! @ Quilting Gail 
• February 25: 6^th Round:  Anja @ Anja Quilts
• March 25:    Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

Now that I’m decided, I’m off to link this up to the beginning post, The Centre Block for the 2026 SAHRR. Deadline is today, Tuesday, January 20 at midnight Pacific Time.