"Simply Churn Dash" - top finished

Some of you realize that Poland has been working through a heat wave. In spite of that, I did get this top finished up last past week. I am using the same fabrics for this as I used for Edyta Sitar’s mystery from 2025. This one. Remember?

That fabric line is from Stephanie Slewinski and the line is called Foraged, Found and Hand Me Down and is by Moda.

Rachael, my sister has quite a few of these fabrics here.

I had so much of this fabric that I didn’t have a great place for it on my shelves, so I decided to just use it up to almost nothing - and then the very last pieces can just be put in with my other fabrics by color. So, I’m using it up. You should see a couple more tops before too long.

This is a quilt I’ve wanted to make for quite some time now. I like the churn dash block “on point”. As silly as it is, I’m not crazy about it as a regular horizontal layout though I’ve gotten over any sort of active dislike. Does that even make sense?

I’m not sure, but this layout appeals to my sensitivites and likes.

The blocks were easy and reasonably big - 9.5” square with sashing and cornerstones.

Putting this kind of quilt top together seems to take me longer and longer to put together. I think it is the fact there are both sashing strips AND cornerstones AND on point.

I think I’m starting to lack some focus. Heat in Europe may have something to do with it.

 

Then I had to put on borders. Well, I didn’t “have to” but I wanted to because a quilt top on point like that leaves edges that are vulnerable to stretching and getting wonky. I do cut the side setting triangles so that the edges are theoretically straight of grain, but you know how it goes.

With so many things a bit weird like this, it can all get wonky and the borders help control all that.





 
 

While I absolutely love the look of such a top, it is really something else to put together. After you get the top together, there is a lot of trimming and measuring, etc. It all has to just work in order to have a nice, flat top. I’m so glad this one turned out right. It did use up almost completely that aqua background floral print that I used in the border. I did mention that I hope to keep using up the fabric til I have very little left and can just merge it into my shelves of fabric.

Thanks once again so much for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Becky Petersen3 Comments