It’s that time of year again!! Kairle Oaks and I are hosting another Christmas in July Quiltalong and we so hope you’ll join us! We thought it would be fun to offer instructions on how to make a churn dash block and cutting instructions for 2 different sized quilts to offer as much variety as we possibly could to you! Kairle will be making her quilt as an actual Christmas quilt (in possibly the cutest Christmas fabric EVER Swell Christmas) and I will be making mine in a different style for those of us who maybe have enough Christmas quilts, or maybe want to make a quilt to gift for Christmas (using Panorama by Cotton + Steel). As with all of our quiltalongs, we like to provide a loose schedule to follow should you be inclined, but please don’t feel like you have to keep up. It is summer. Kids are home. Lives are busy! Here is the schedule we will try to stick to:
Week 1 (July 2-8): Do all of your cutting and make all B1 pieces (this should make sense once you have downloaded the free PDF patterns below)
Week 2 (July 9-15): Sew and trim all half square triangles (piece A1)
Week 3 (July 16-22): Assemble all of your quilt blocks
Week 4 (July 23-31): Assemble your quilt top
My wonderful husband has helped in creating a PDF for the cutting instructions as well as diagrams for block construction. Kairle figured out the background cutting and requirements for a 72″ x 84″ quilt (which uses 42 layer cake squares and makes 42 blocks) and 60″ x 72″ (which uses 30 layer cake squares and makes 30 blocks). It is available for download in either a tablet/desktop friendly format or a mobile friendly format.
We hope to have some fun giveaways lined up and look forward to having you #dashalong with us! Get it? Churn Dash? Dashing through the snow? Yes? No? … Either way, I’m chuckling for sure and can’t wait to see your beautiful quilts. 🙂 Below are the PDF patterns. If you’re like me and really only look at patterns on your phone, download the mobile PDF and save yourself the hassle of zooming and scrolling sideways.
Desktop/Tablet PDF
Mobile PDF
Quilter’s offering discounts on quilting: (I will do my best to update this as more offers come in)
Molly of Lovely Threads Quilting (@mollylovelythreads on instagram)- $89 for custom quilting on 60″ x 72″ and $109 for 72″ x 84″, does not include batting.
Rhonda of Olie and Evie (@olieandevie on instagram) – 10% off any quilting design and 10% off batting.
Nicole of @toomanycrafts on Instagram – 15% off quilting, does not include batting
Kaylene of @quilterlove66 on Instagram – 15% off any regular priced quilting design, does not include batting
Amy of @herding_cats_quilting on instagram – 20$ off either edge to edge or custom free motion quilting
Denise of @happyvalleyquilting on Instagram – .0125/inch any pattern if quilt is received before 8/31/18.
Super excited about this!
This will be my very first Churn Dash block after four years of quilting. I’m going with the larger version in Christmas. Thanks so much!