Hello ladies! As the
other Bee Mamas have said in their posts ...oh man time flies! So it’s my turn and I hope you like my
choice.
Yes it’s a traditional block but I want to have something
really colourful and in your face and at the same time an easy block to run up!
Take a square of Fabric Colour 1 and a square of Fabric
Colour 2, on the back of Fabric Colour 1 draw a diagonal line from corner to
corner and place face down on Fabric Colour 2.
Pin together.
I was thinking and thinking and thinking came up with
nothing, so I got on to Pinterest and saw this!
Read the next sentence with sincere politeness: I don’t want J
any batiks, browns, flowerly prints, kiddy fabrics.
I would like pretty please, bright cheerful colours if at
all possible, warm colours. Again I
refer you to Imagingermonkey’s pic for inspiration.
One condition – the centre of the churn dash should be
one of your favourite scrappy fabrics.
Scant ¼” is
required for sewing the block in certain parts – I interpreted this as just shy
of the ¼” mark on your ¼” sewing foot, so please if you could follow that
that’d be great, in other words a breath away from ¼” – apologies if I’m saying
the same thing 10 different ways but it’s important, if you are unsure just
shout out and please don’t be intimidated about this scant thing.
Two blocks please, no need to trim them.
I used CluckCluckSew’s tutorial to make my blocks.
So to get started:
Select three fabrics – one for your centre piece (this
should be one of your favourite pieces), plus two other colours. If they clash that’s fine, look at
Imagingermonkey’s pic, this the kind of look I’m going for e.g. colourful,
clashing.
Cut the following:
Centre piece: 1
- 3 ½” square
Fabric Colour 1: two 3 7/8” squares
Fabric Colour 1:
one 2”x15” strip
Fabric Colour 2:
two 3 7/8” squares
Fabric Colour 2: one
2”x15” strip
Carefully sew a SCANT ¼” along either side of the diagonal
line, so I sewed just inside the ¼” line.
Cut along the pencil line and iron the seam towards the darker of the
two fabrics. Repeat with remaining
squares and you should end up with four Half Square Triangles (HSTs). If in doubt refer to Cluckclucks tutorial. Trim to 3 ½”
Next take your two strips of fabric – right sides together,
sew normal ¼”.
Iron seam to darker fabric.
Apologies for the different coloured fabric (this is my second block
colours, but I forgot to take a pic).
Cut this strip into 3 ½” squares, you will be able to cut 4
squares in total.
Now the fun part, layout your pieces. Make sure the colours are in the right order,
sew the pieces into three rows. When
pressing your seams of each individual square i would recommend pressing the
seams on Row 1 to the leave, Row 2 to the right and Row 3 to the left again,
this way the slot in nicely. Any
questions email me.
You should have a lovely colourful block, 9 ½” unfinished,
don’t trim I will look after this.
So thank you for your time in making these blocks and I look
forward to receiving them!
X
Fi
