2021 Sew With Me / CHURN DASH BLOCK / Block 2 with Erica Arndt
It’s time for block #2 in Erica's Sew With Me Sew-a-long where she teaches you how to make some of the most fun and classic quilt blocks! This week she'll be tackling the Churn Dash Block. Throughout this series, she hopes you'll learn some new skills, tips, and tricks, and at the end of the series, you'll will have a fun selection of blocks to sew together into a sampler quilt!
Instructor
Erica Arndt
Erica is a blogger, author, quilter, knitter, and maker of all the things! She is perhaps most well known for her homeschooling website, Confessions of a Homeschooler where she share homeschooling tips, curriculum, and organizational ideas, in addition to her quilting patterns and videos. She loves creating weekly video tutorials to share helpful tips, tricks, tutorials, fun projects, and inspiration for sewing and quilting.
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It’s time for block #2 in Erica's Sew With Me Sew-a-long where she teaches you how to make some of the most fun and classic quilt blocks! This week she'll be tackling the Churn Dash Block. Throughout this series, she hopes you'll learn some new skills, tips, and tricks, and at...
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Video Transcript
The Churn Dash quilt block was popular during the Civil War era in the United States, and was used in many quilts made during that time period. It was often made in shades of red and white or blue and white, but can be adapted to suit different color schemes and fabric styles.
The design of the Churn Dash quilt block is based on traditional patchwork techniques, such as half-square triangles and strip piecing. The block can be made in a variety of sizes, and can be combined with other blocks to create larger quilt designs.
