Doggramma

What a lovely quilt and your quilting is wonderful

ccthomas

Nice churn dash quilt and hand quilting.

Jane Quilter

Had to stare at this for a while to enjoy the secondary pattern and the color combination. Beautiful quilt and handwork.

Beginner10

[QUOTE=waltonalice;8018648]I’ve never seen the Churn Dash pattern created in a way that it forms a medallion. You’ve used a variety of fabrics, so it’s a bit scrappy, but the differences in the background fabrics really create a whole new pattern.[/QUOTE

What she said.....and....WOW!!!

Blue Bell

Awesome quilt. Love everything about it including your tiny stitches.

Pearl40

Susie, you read my mind! I've never seen a churn dash quilted like that. Amazing!

carolynjo

I agree that your quilt is beautiful, and so is your quilting! Enjoy your little masterpiece.

Bjbaxter

I am not usually a lover of the Churn Dash block, but this was is unusual in its design, and I really like the colors.

frustratedquilter40

Beautiful I love the smaller size can be used as a table topper or a cute small wall quilt. Love the hand quilting you did a great job!

Ranchwife

Thank you all for your kind words. I loved this pattern when I purchased the book but was planning on doing different colors (not the salmon/pink). The day I purchased the fabric, I was coming down with the flu and wasn't wanting to spend too much time contemplating colors. My quilt store had the salmon colored fabric grouped together and it almost perfectly matched the colors of the pattern in the book, so I went with it. When I sat down to make the quilt, the instructions had you make x many blocks of one churn dash, then y many of another churn dash, all keeping the barn door pattern to make the dark/light diamond pattern in the back. This would have made a very scrappy quilt with no rhyme or reason to the placement of the pink/salmon colors, but still having the barn door in the back ground. The quilt in the photo in the book wasn't random, so I had to basically lay out the quilt colors to match the picture. Added to the headache of this quilt was the fact that the pattern didn't tell you which way to iron the squares and instructed you wait until the piecing of the quilt to press seams. That goes completely against years of sewing and intuition. I started with the center square and made a decision which way to iron the block. Then I did the top/bottom and left/right blocks from the center square and ironed those to nest with the center block. I pinned together the blocks as I went to make sure the seams were all ironed the correct way. It was by far, the hardest quilt to put together because the finished quilt was ordered whereas the pattern instructions were written so the churn dash pink/salmon colors were random. I also learned I needed to trim my HST blocks to the correct size before piecing them because nothing fit together on this quilt. Luckily, after a lot of pulling and finessing the quilt together, there are no puckers or rolls. So, that is the story on this quilt.