Nested Churn Dash — A Finish

A couple of weeks ago I went along to Patches for Quilt Jane’s Nes­ted Churn Dash class.  I taught myself to quilt by read­ing books and magazines and look­ing at web­sites so the whole class thing is quite new to me.   Jane’s class was the second one I’ve ever done, was bril­liant, and def­in­itely won’t be the last.  Classes are a great way to meet people who speak the same lan­guage as us quilters and, its totally unin­ter­rup­ted sew­ing time which is a huge bonus.  Thanks again Jane & Shar­on for a lovely day.

If you’d like a copy of Quilt Jane’s Nes­ted Churn Dash you can grab a copy of the block pat­tern here.

There’s a few babies arriv­ing in our fam­ily this year so I decided to make a baby size Nes­ted Churn Dash using boy themed fab­rics.    I had both the Riley Blake Cruis­er Blvd and Bon­nie & Cam­ille Happy Go Lucky fab­rics in my stash and thought they looked pretty cute togeth­er.    The Cruis­er Blvd main print was per­fect for fussy cut­ting the centres of each block.

I made one block dur­ing the class and then chain pieced the final 3 blocks in record time at home. Adding corner tri­angles to each block also helped speed up the assembly as I did­n’t end up need­ing to cut and sew sashing.

The back was a little trick­i­er as I did­n’t have a single leftover piece large enough, and, I’m on a mis­sion to use fab­ric I have rather than buy more.   (That prob­ably isn’t going to last with Quilt Mar­ket just around the corner!)  I ended up cut­ting 10″ squares and 2.5″ strips and piecing them togeth­er into a simple patch­work.   A little bit of extra work but I think it the pieced back makes a fun addi­tion to the quilt.

And since 2015 is my year of firsts I decided to try this, new to me, free motion quilt­ing design I saw on Cindy Lam­mon’s Ins­tagram feed the oth­er day.   Cindy called it head­bands but since this is a boy quilt I think I’ll have to call it swirly hoops!  Not bad for a first timer right???

Later this week I’ll be shar­ing my new quilt pat­tern Down South, I hope you’ll come back and check it out.

Link­ing up today with Sew Fresh Quilts: Let’s Bee Social!