Thursday, November 7, 2013

Churn Dashes

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A few months ago, Corey of Little Miss Shabby asked for volunteers to join a new bee that she was starting called Bee{Purposeful}. Corey's church is very active in missionary work and she was looking for a group of sewists to help make quilts that would be auctioned off with the proceeds benefiting the missions program. The group is set up in a similar way as do.Good Stitches in that half of us are "quilters" who each have a month to design, make blocks, and finish the quilt while the other half of the group are "stitchers" who send blocks to the quilters.

Photo courtesy of Little Miss Shabby
We started in August, with a Camille Roskelley-inspired Scrappy Trip Around the World. Corey was the quilter that month and did a fabulous job designing our first quilt!

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 September was my month and if you'll remember I chose the Skinny Churn Dash Block. It is always a lot of fun to get bee blocks in the mail so in no time I had the quilt top sewn together. Sorry for the super-bright pictures, but the only chance I've had to take pics lately was after church on Sunday and it was very sunny! But, an exceptionally pretty day so I'm not complaining!

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I was very indecisive about how I wanted to quilt this, but I eventually settled on somewhat of an orange-peel design. As luck would have it, the lid for my 12" skillet was a perfect template for marking my lines!

Who knew a 12" skillet lid would be so handy?

I just used my walking foot for the quilting and it was so easy. I'll definitely be doing it this way again!

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For the backing I chose this fun print but for the life of me I cannot remember what it is! I know that I bought it in the sale section at Pink Castle a few months ago because it had many of the same colors that I had requested for the quilt, but other than that I'm at a loss. I hand-stitched the binding this time and as usual, it took forever! I kind of enjoy stitching it on by hand, but it seriously takes me about 2 weeks to finish a quilt that way, so I generally go with my machine. The binding is Kona Ice Frappe which is a pretty minty-aqua.

And this concludes the quilt show for the week! I think that I am finally caught up in showing my finished quilts, and you probably won't be seeing any more this year! I've got one more to finish for dGS once I get everyone's blocks but that's it. I'm trying my best to round up all of my quilt tops and those in progress so I can take them to my mom's at Thanksgiving and give her longarm a workout. Doesn't that sound fun?

11 comments:

  1. Hey! Thanks for the quilt show. You did awesome at putting this together. It's fun to see my blocks in a quilt I know will be appreciated. Great work!

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  2. Can I come to your mom's for Thanksgiving?
    Love this one, Toni. Very cool quilting.

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  3. Oh. My. Goodness I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE your skinny churn dash quilt---I want one JUST LIKE IT!!! :D

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  4. I love the different sizes of churn dashes. So fun. The quilting is great too.

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  5. Your churn dashes turned out great, and love your quilting template :oD

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  6. Love it Toni!--This turned out so beautiful!--I can't thank you enough for being a part of this bee! And, the quilting on the quilt is divine--I noticed it right off!

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  7. Beautiful, and the quilting accessories are great - I may copy!

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  8. This is so beautiful and the way you have quilted it is just brilliant!!

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  9. Now that is a fun quilt! Great idea to use a pot lid!

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  10. Love those churn dashes and what a clever idea with the pot lid!

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  11. Super fun! Love the colours so much!
    Now i need to check out my pot lids for potential quilting marking! Thanks for the idea :)

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