Arabesque Pattern Release

It's been a minute or three since I've had a new pattern out, but here I am with one more for 2025. Many of you will remember my SAHRR this year, and several said it would be a great pattern. So here she is!

Something I realized as I wrote up the pattern is that because the rounds (all seven of them) are 3" blocks or widths, you can really go wild with this pattern, and switch them around to create a totally unique personalized quilt! I told my pattern testers to feel free to do just that!

Oh, and of course, Arabesque is on sale all weekend for just CA$10.🤩

Here is the back cover with yardage requirements:

If you want to really coordinate your quilt, yardage requirements are provided, but you can do what I did, which, I think gives a real shimmer and a lot of movement: use nothing but scraps and chunks of leftover yardage. I used a few creams, a few pinks, and a ton of burgundies in my original quilt. It really lends itself well to a coordinated palette of scraps!

This is one of a very few patterns of mine that has instructions for just one quilt. However, because of the ability to switch out the rounds, the possibilities are many. I decided to make a vintage Christmas table topper when I was testing out my instructions. I made the centre English Wedding Ring block and added the first three rounds. Some of you who follow me on Instagram might have seen it being birthed...and undergoing surgery to get to where it is now.

This finishes at 27.5". It would be great on a wall too, since it has a right way up!

It was ... a lot... but I'm really happy with it now. I used two directional prints, the background text print and the pink tonal, which has a woodgrain look to it. I didn't consider the pink directional until I started to put the background and the pink together for the HSTs, and then I knew it would drive me bonkers if the text print was all aligned and the woodgrain was every which way. For the centre block, it worked out fine sewing on the diagonal one way and then the other, but I ended up having to make the larger HSTs that make the outer ribbon-esque frame by first cutting apart the squares and placing the resulting triangles on my design wall to orient them all correctly!🤯

Gail of Quilting Gail —yes THE Gail who first dreamed up the SAHRR (Stay At Home Round Robin) made her quilt with five rounds, which she kept in the original order.

Her quilt finished at 39.5", perfect for a really pretty baby quilt. Or boomer blankie, a term Rose of SomethingRoseMade has coined. She plans to make this quilt in January and knowing her, it will be a showstopper! And? She always goes rogue so I cannot wait to see what she does.

Gail hosts the SAHHR each year, which begins in January and runs through March. You start with your own centre block and then each week a designer on Gail’s SAHRR team gives you a prompt for that round. It’s a great creative challenge and a wonderful way to start off the year. Hope you’ll join in in 2026!

Carol of Quilt Schmilt also tested the pattern. Here is her gorgeous quilt at the same number of rounds as Gail‘s. Know that she realized, after she sent the picture—how many times does that happen to us?— that she attached round 4 upside down, so she’ll have a little reverse sewing to do, she said, before she sends me the final finished top! She intends to do the entire quilt and she has the blocks all made. Unfortunately, some rather stressful real life business got in the way, but know that I will add the finished top to this post once she sends me a photo. It’s so beautiful I had to show you even with that mistake. 

I went into town the other afternoon, such a bright sunny day it was, to hopefully get a pretty shot for the cover on the porch of The Grove Hotel, my quilt artfully draped over one of their rockers.

Although I love the shot, I felt it doesn't show the quilt off properly, so I ended up not using it, but thought it a good one for the blog. It's a great size for a snuggle quilt on such a rocker! Sometimes they have blankets draped over a couple of rockers, but none were out that day.

I have a copy of the pattern to give away, as do both Gail and Carol, on their blogs, so be sure to visit them. Simply leave me a comment answering the question below. I'll announce the winner on Tuesday, December 9, which is, I just realized it this moment, rather fitting: my husband's birthday. 

Have you ever participated in a round robin, maybe even the SAHRR?

Be sure to leave your email if you are Anonymous or No reply so I can contact you if you win! 

You can find Arabesque in my Etsy Shop on sale for the next three days!