By the weekend, we were already two prompts in for the Stay-at-home-round-robin. I had social plans for a good chunk of the weekend, so I didn’t think I was going to get a chance to do anything, despite bein behind.

But… but Friday afternoon… all my plans had been rescheduled! Time to get in that studio.

The first prompt was a King’s Crown block. There are apparently multiple versions of the Kings Crown block…

I decided that the first version would work best for my quilt. Or… at least a portion of the first block.

After fiddling around with the graph paper, I got to work picking and cutting my fabrics. It involved making HSTs…. LOTS and LOTS of HSTS.

I used the eight-at-a-time method, and my handy dandy HST trimmer, and then ironed them all open.

I just love those little chickadees! It was a joy to sew them together into 14 neat looking blocks.

Once they were all together, it was time to arrange them around the centre panel. Naturally, I had help.

My original plan was to make enough blocks to go all the way around the panel. But there wasn’t quite enough fabric in the fat quarters to do that. So instead, I decided to do partial borders… similar to what I did with my Hallowe’en cat panel.

And lucky I did… because it turns out I had measured my panel wrong. It was not 24.5″ square. It was 22.5″ x 24.5″!!!

So the blocks wouldn’t have fit all the way around if there were 20 of them! Sometimes you just gotta love happy accidents.

So… Round 1 is complete. But as I said – I was two Rounds behind. However, Round 2 is…. HSTs!!! And since this block is made completely of HSTs… I’m calling this Round complete too!

Now we wait for Round 3 – which is released today.

Though the boys and I won’t get back into the studio until the weekend, I’m afraid.