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 Boy, have I been busy on these Compassion Quilts.  

I am ready to share three more Churn Dash finishes today!

Quilt number 9 is this fun one made from 6" Churn Dash and 6" four patch blocks. Most of these blocks were sent in from Debbie.  She sent me a photo of them on her design wall and I decided to just sew them up as she had them.  I just had to add in a few Churn Dash blocks that were missing and add the flag border.  I think it turned out great!

But did you notice I sewed ...

 It's Friday and that means sharing two more Churn Dash quilts made from donated blocks.

The layout for quilt #7 you have already seen before.  I had a lot of large 12" blocks that leaned toward turquoise in color so I made another staggered quilt.  However, instead of inserting a piece of fabric in rows two and four, I used some 6" blocks instead.

 I have been finishing so many quilts lately.  Every night, my little helper snuggles up next to me as I work on hand-sewing bindings.  We both really enjoy the process!

 Ready to see a couple more Churn Dash quilts made from the current block drive?

 It has been so much fun to see all the different blocks coming in almost every day.  Many of them inspire some of the designs I come up with.

Today's quilt was the first quilt I put together.  These were some of the earliest blocks I received and I think Nann donated most of these blocks.  I love to stagger blocks because some interesting secondary designs show themselves.  These Churn Dash blocks did not disappoint!

I really wanted a red backing on this one.  So I pulled an extra-wide scroll print that a client gifted me a few months ...

 Let's get this party started!

I am finally ready to start sharing the Churn Dash Compassion quilts using the blocks donated by so many of you.

This first quilt wasn't the first top I put together but it is the first one I finished and photographed.

All of the Churn Dash blocks came from Libby.  (She actually talks about making them on her blog here and here.)   I love the little mini churn in the center of some of them.

When the blocks arrived in the mail, they were still in order and all I had to do ...

Hard to believe that March is almost here.  But that means it is time to get started on the next Compassion Quilt block drive!

These blocks will be making quilts for our Veterans - so the color scheme will be red, white and blue.

Kat usually does her Covered in Love Star block drive around July.  So, I thought we would make our patriotic blocks in the Spring and we would make Churn Dash blocks.

In fact, there will be a choice of THREE blocks.  (So you can make the blocks that gives you the best usage of your scraps.  You ...

Are these pyramids or trees?  My hubby says 'trees'.  Anyway, the top is currently at the LAer and I will get it back in a few weeks.  I can't say this was a fun EPP project to do as it did give me some issues that I was able to overcome.  So glad this one is done and I can move onto something else.

This is a long awaited ufo that has finally been ticked off the list!  Thanks to Chooky and her Churn Dash Challenge ..... this was pulled off the shelf and the top is done and will be going to my favourite LAer, Kathy, next week.  It was so nice to show off this top when I zoomed with Chooky last week.  Oh, happy, happy days!

 Last December, a friend and I decided to have a UFO challenge in 2022.  We chose 12 UFOs and decided that every month we would draw a number and try and finish that project.

I was doing great until June hit and my life got busy.

The June project was to make a quilt to use up more of this neutral fabric stack.  Normally I don't put an unstarted quilt on my UFO list.  But these fabrics don't fit in my stash very well so I felt making a quilt from these leftovers would be the best option ...

Not much quilting is going on in my life right now.  This is cottage time and my sister and I have been busy doing a bit of redo ...... painting and flooring.  It never ends, but we enjoy our work done so far.  I even cut down a wee tree by hand.  It took about half an hour of sawing, but it got down.  This little cedar tree was blocking my sister's view of part of the lake and she asked if 'we' could cut it down.  I knew what the 'we' entailed ..... me!  LOL

A few weeks ago, I ...

 It has been a week since I posted something!

I didn't have a finished quilt to share on Friday and I haven't really started anything new so it is pretty silent around here.

After we got our 4th Covid vaccination, we had a couple hours of chills ..... but that is all.  We were supposed to feel tired for a few days ..... but so far .... nope.  We are good to go.

So, instead of just sitting in my chair while watching T.V., or playing games on my ipad, I got busy pinning the last two rows onto my Churn Dash Challenge top and had a marathon of sewing, pinning, sewing.  It is a large queen, so those rows seemed to take forever to pin.

Then once that center was done, my Stash Buster ...

Going to our cottage has been great for working on the sashings on my Churn Dash quilt.  Get chores done and out of the way and sit on the porch, applique and watch the hummingbirds fight at the feeder.

Our summer, so far, has seen a few hot and then cool days.  No heat wave for any length of time this year.  Unusual?  Yes.  This could change and we will see.

This is where I'm at with this challenge.  Great progress has been made.  At this point, only two more diagonal rows (diagonally in the center) need to have ...

 For me, 2022 is all about reducing the number of UFOs I have.  At the beginning of the year, a close friend wanted to join me so we made a little challenge.  So far I have completed every project that has been drawn.  But then came June...

Much, much progress has been made on the Churn Dash Challenge that Chookyblue is hosting.  So far, I've met my challenge for the month of June.  Win-win-win! 

All my large 10" and 5" blocks for the challenge are done .... so don't have to worry about meeting those goals anymore.

Now, the sashings are a different story.  For this large quilt, 64 sashings are needed.  When divided by the 4 month challenge, 16 sashings per month are to be appliqued.  For the month of June, my goal of 16 has been met plus an additional 4 sashings for a ...

Well ..... I'm very pleased with myself ..... am making great progress on the Churn Dash Challenge that Chookyblue (the enabler) has tempted many bloggers to take up.  It all started with the binding challenge that I issued.  While we were zooming she worked on bindings and her Churn Dash quilt was one of them.  Many of us were hooked after seeing her quilt and there was a lot of chatter about doing a sew-along ..... a challenge was issued and viola ....

 

Back in 2008, I had started a Churn Dash quilt but it got shelved.  It was the sashing that bothered ...

As I'm working on my new squirrel project that I chatted about on my last post, an oldie UFO is being released from the shelf!

Chookyblue is having a sew-along of a churn dash quilt.  She wanted to know who else would be interested.  Well, me of course as I so love that block.  

But ..... something was bugging me.  I was sure that I had made a churn dash quilt before.  Well, yes I did with this quilt, which is one of my favourite scrappy quilts made so far.  This has been gifted and I really need to make ...

 Even though February is a short month, I still finished all of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks this month. That makes me happy!

The churn dash quilt block is an old favorite. It's a 9-patch block, meaning there are 9 units of construction. There are four half square triangle units, four rail fence units and one plain block unit. In this article you will learn how to piece a 12" finished churn dash quilt block. Look at the end of this article for other finished block sizes. There is a link to instructions to make a Churn Dash Quilt approximately 66" x 80" finished. For these instructions you can use scraps or two fat quarters of contrasting fabrics. Two fat quarters will ...