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DOUBLE DASH from Q-BITS

If you are familiar with my quilts, you know that the majority are scrappy in nature. I prefer to work in that multi-fabric theme. Number one, frugality is in my DNA plus it was the reason for the development of patchwork originally; and number two, I like the additional challenge to motivate me in quilt making to use what I have on hand. When it is necessary to buy yardage for backing and borders, I always think about will the fabric/color scraps be useful in a future quilt.

This scrap quilt is based on an old quilt block called ...

added by Salmagundi 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under churn dash , double dash

Taking Shape from Wedding Dress Blue

The 100 Mad Dash blocks are finally assembled. Now, sashing. I am adding mostly white sashing to 50 of them, and mostly black sashing to the other 50.

Things are starting to shape up…

added by weddingdressblue 3 months, 1 week ago. under churn dash , quilt , quilting , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps , work in progress (Comments)

(Mad) Churn Dash–Tutorial Coming Soon from Wedding Dress Blue

Sometimes we just go mad with quilting.

There is the inspiration, which leads to an idea, which leads to all current projects being pushed to the side and…

Ta-dah! A quilt.

The beauty of it (in this case) is that, not including the sashing and borders, all pieces for the blocks start as a single size square. And it doesn’t matter what size that square is (as long as they are all the same size).

So, you might want to dash about your sewing room and gather up those stashed squares that you have been wanting to make something ...

added by weddingdressblue 8 months, 1 week ago. under baby quilt , churn dash , quilt , quilting , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps , tutorial (Comments)

A Great Start and A Final 2022 Stash Report from Sew........This Is My Blog

2023 is off to a roaring start. I already have four finishes which also means four UFOs off the list. Yay me!

The first thing I finished this year was this Churn Dash baby quilt. Sometimes, a simple, traditional block is the best choice for a sweet quilt.

These two quilts were started at a retreat last July, and I told you about them here. They're going to a local group that makes quilts for St Jude Children's Research Hospital.

The very last of the orange Tom & Jerry fabric (read about that here and here) was used up ...

added by Sandy Panagos 1 year, 2 months ago. under churn dash , st. jude children's research hospital , stash report , tom and jerry , ufo

Midweek: end of leisure from With Strings Attached

The Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve is the farthest Hike Lake County site from our house (diagonally southwest). I thought we could avoid heavy traffic by going on Labor Day but I was surprised at how many cars were on the road. When a trail is unfamiliar it seems to take a lot longer! I was glad the temperature was a cool 73 for the 2.7-mile loop.

Obedient plant, boneset / eupatorium ("eupatorium" is fun to say), tickseed, a field of goldenrod. Buffalo Creek was a farm for several generations.

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The Zion Woman's Club's opening meeting was Tuesday. The ...

added by Nann 1 year, 7 months ago. under churn dash , lake county forest preserves , midweek makers

Weekly update: garage sale bargains and a new project from With Strings Attached

Sunny on Saturday when revisited Van Patten Woods. Cloudy on Sunday at the lakefront. A northeast wind kicked up the waves!

Bumblebee on liatris (blazing star), New England aster, a big mushroom.

Riverbank grapes, hawthorn, bottle grass.

Monarch on butterfly weed, lobelia, gray dogwood.

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The first Corningware I got was in the late 1970's, a Christmas gift. Back then it was new and pricey relative to my budget. I have used the 10" casserole a lot! The stains won't come out and the glass lid is very dishwasher-etched. When I found the same size, same pattern, never-used for ...

added by Nann 1 year, 7 months ago. under churn dash , design wall monday , garage sale , monday making , weekly update , wildflowers

Midweek: solstice, finishes, and birthday stash bash! from With Strings Attached

I was up very early Tuesday and took pictures of the sunrise on the lake for the summer solstice. (5:15 a.m.)

I have yet to find a really good not-wooded place to get a sunset photo. This was taken off a side road about 8:20 p.m. (Sunset officially 8:32.)

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In the studio: I finished the 22 mug rugs and mailed them to the woman who commissioned them. They will be favors at the Georgia state P.E.O. convention next spring. (I joked it's up to her to remember where she put them!) 2-3 ...

added by Nann 1 year, 10 months ago. under batik quilt , birthday , churn dash , lake michigan , midweek makers , wednesday wait loss

Weekly update: various encounters and works in progress + good books from With Strings Attached

Early in the week it was blisteringly hot. A thunderstorm rolled in and rolled out (lightning and thunder at 1 a.m.) and dropped about 1-1/2" of welcome rain. The weekend was much cooler.

Left: purplestem angelica. Right: Ohio spiderwort (beautiful blue!), Carolina puccoon. Bottom: downy phlox, yellow star grass, coreopsis.

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Stevens' annual wellness checkup was Wednesday. His chronic conditions are no worse, no better. Heart, lungs, blood are all fine. We followed appointment up with lunch at our favorite local Mexican restaurant and then casting our ballots in the Illinois primary (early voting).

On Thursday evening I went ...

added by Nann 1 year, 10 months ago. under churn dash , design wall monday , monday making , mug rugs , oh scrap! , reading , weekly update

Weekly update: more flowers, more churn dashes, and one you've got to read from With Strings Attached

On Saturday afternoon we combined a trip to Half Price Books with a forest preserve walk -- saving time and gas. I didn't get much for the books but they are out of my house. (I know all about library and AAUW book sales, which I've managed, set up, purchased from, and cleaned up after. I chose HPB this time.)

Upper left: a tangle of garter snakes (two here; a third slithered away (perhaps establishing dominance before mating?). Downy pagoda plant (blephilia ciliata -- a new one). Cow parsnip. Middle: common cinquefoil. Columbine/aquilegia (there are blue ones in our ...

added by Nann 1 year, 10 months ago. under churn dash , design wall monday , lake county forest preserves , monday making , oh scrap! , reading , weekly update , wildflowers

Midweek: Christmas churn dash flimsy + reading from With Strings Attached

The Christmas churn dashes are a flimsy! I'm auditioning backings.

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I am halfway through a book that I don't like very much. (Why do I feel compelled to finish what I start? Nancy Pearl, reader's advisor extraordinaire, has posited the Rule of 50 * and I should follow it more often.) Here are my reviews of last week's books that I didn't have time to post on Monday.

"A book published the year you graduated from high school" is one of the prompts for The Page Turner 2022, a FB group I'm in. For 1970 ...

added by Nann 1 year, 10 months ago. under churn dash , midweek makers , reading , wednesday wait loss

Friday Catch Up Post from Humble Quilts

It feels like spring is on the way! This quilt is a fun springy quilt that I sold recently.

If I'm not using a quilt in one of my lectures I'll be culling it!

I hope the new owner is enjoying it.

I've been getting caught up this week after a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas.

On Friday we left in the early hours of the morning and our flight got delayed for way too many hours part way through our trip, so we rented a car for our last leg from Salt Lake City to Vegas ...

added by Lori 2 years, 1 month ago. under churn dash , travel

Chunk Churn Dash, Easy Breezy and a Whole Lot of Other Stuff from The Modern Diary

I pulled out my leftover blocks to see what I could use to make a bunch of Christmas stockings for the step grands, honorary grands and grands. I have lots of stockings in progress now but no pictures yet.

Found these churn dash blocks left over from I do not know what in my bins. Could not find another project with this size churn dashes on my blog so no idea why I made them. I need to make at least one more in order to complete a tiny top....or make more so I can have a baby size ...

added by Andee 3 years, 6 months ago. under bonnie's chunky churndash , bonnie's easy breezy , churn dash , grands , morewood mystery 2020

Hold on to your horses! the stash report and OMG September from With Strings Attached

I can't believe it either. I made the blocks on Friday and Saturday and here is a finished quilt. Another no-deadline, no-destination project that went together slick as a whistle. The back shows the curlicue quilting in the center and my go-to "almost feathers" in the border.

Stash report:

August fabric IN 7 yards, $6.50 -- a cotton bedsheet and a turquoise plaid XXL shirt at Salvation Army

August fabric OUT 101-1/2 -- all my quilting projects plus 6 yards flung with the Teal Swap and 50 yards flung to The Joyful Quilter for her Lutheran World Relief project ...

added by Nann 3 years, 7 months ago. under churn dash , omg 2020 , stash report

Weekly update: current events, beautiful weather, and a new flimsy from With Strings Attached

It's been quite a week. We live eight miles directly south of Kenosha where last Sunday evening a police officer shot a young black man seven times. Protests, looting, and fires followed. We have not ventured to downtown Kenosha to see the damage. We watched only snippets of the Republican National Convention and relied on the PBS Newshour for reporting and analysis. (And I watched Stephen Colbert's witty summaries, too.)

There was respite in nature. Lake Michigan was placid and the water is still warm.

I was going to the ravine on my walk and saw movement next ...

added by Nann 3 years, 7 months ago. under churn dash , monday making , oh scrap! , weekly update

Lots of Stuff Going On from Pinkadot Quilts

I'm a Cover Girl!

added by Pinkadot Quilts 3 years, 8 months ago. under applipops , churn dash , magazine article , sashiko

July 31, 2020

Gifted from Sew Sunshine

A finish at last! I knew I should be spending some of my quarantine time finishing some of my UFO quilts. I started the year out so great and then you know how it went. With some recent eye problems my great start to the year of UFO finishing was halted. I had a great opportunity to get a big quilt quilted on a longarm at my local Bernina shop so I jumped at it.

One weekend I found this quilt top in my UFO stack and thought it would make a great graduation gift. I only had to find ...

added by Kris 3 years, 9 months ago. under churn dash , finish , stash , ufo

July 24, 2020

Homespun churn dashes and something new from With Strings Attached

78 x 78 and 5 yards used!

I have trouble making "unbalanced" quilts with an even number of rows (i.e, seven columns and eight rows). Does that bother you, too?

Here's the new project. It was inspired by "Sound Check" by John Kubiniec (McCall's, March/April 2014). He used solids.

The fun part is choosing the fabric!

I've admired Wanda's (Exuberant Color) 16-patch block series. I like the look with 30 patches, too.

Linking up with Finished or Not Friday
and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop.

added by Nann 3 years, 9 months ago. under batik quilt , can i get a whoop whoop , churn dash , finished or not friday , homespun quilt

July 8, 2020

Ava's Garden Twin Size Quilt Kit! from Busy Hands Quilts

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Ava's Garden has been kitted by Connecting Threads in Wild Crimson in the Twin size! This is a twist on a classic design and is oh so sparkly!

The Wild Crimson fabric collection is a great mix of shades of blue, deep red, tan, and cream with a lot of blenders that are so easy to work with.

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

The large blocks in Ava's Garden go together quickly, and would you believe this is a layer cake friendly quilt pattern? Yep! Toss in a few other fabrics and go!

Photo Credit ...

added by Myra @ Busy Hands Quilts 3 years, 9 months ago. under ava's garden , bed-sized quilts , busy hands quilts , churn dash , connecting threads , irish chain , layer cake quilts , patterns , quilts in my patterns

July 1, 2020

Midweek / midyear: churn dashes, stash report, and OMG July from With Strings Attached

Rabbit, rabbit! I snapped this photo during my afternoon walk one day last week.

I finished 60 9-1/2" churn dash blocks. They're my contribution to the Stashbusters' quilts in memory of our friend Marianne. It was fun to choose a variety of prints and colors -- the only criterion was that there be a strong contrast. I'll mail these today to Jean M. who's coordinating the project.

Stash report for June:

Fabric IN: 31-3/8, $213 ($6.76 avg./yd.)

Fabric OUT: 49-5/8

YTD fabric IN: 405-7/8, $668 ($1.90/yd.)

YTD fabric OUT: 522-1 ...

added by Nann 3 years, 10 months ago. under churn dash , marianne , midweek makers , omg 2020 , stash report

June 29, 2020

Weekly update: estate sale treasures, churn dashes, and OMG complete and upcoming from With Strings Attached

This was a week of virtual conventions. I confess that I let most of the hours of programming pass me by -- Rotary, American Library Association -- just too much to keep track of. I did manage to participate in two ALA committee meetings. I tuned into the message from the outgoing and incoming presidents of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, as well as the AAUW-IL year-end wrap up. Meanwhile, Facebook had an Alpha Gam Stay at Home Convention. It was great fun to connect with so many sisters. I haven't been to an Alpha Gamma Delta convention since ...

added by Nann 3 years, 10 months ago. under churn dash , design wall monday , estate sale , handkerchiefs , marianne , monday making , oh scrap! , omg 2020 , weekly update

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