A Beautiful Quilt Made with Free Pattern!

Quilter’s Name: Katherine Kohler from Westfield, New York

Name of Pattern: Free Churn Dash Star Block Pattern from Nancy’s Notions

Featured Date: 06-05-24

Hi, I’m Katherine from Westfield, New York. I often buy fabric when I see it, not when I need it!  So how much to buy?  I bought three yards of each of these fabrics and have had them stashed away for over a year.  I love blues and yellows together.  I just couldn’t find a pattern that called to me, so the fabric sat.  Then I saw some of the Nancy Notions free quilt block patterns and knew exactly what to do.

The pattern is from Block 9, 12″, and is called “Churn Dash Star.”  Perfect.  As I was laying out the finished stars so I could decide on the width, I needed to move the rest of the blue and yellow fabric off the ironing board.  So I just dropped it on the floor beneath the two rows of finished stars.  Voilà.  How would it look if I divided the quilt and put in a wide stripe instead of all stars?  I took me a couple days of thinking about it, and then I decided that it made the quilt more interesting and you could hang it in any direction, making it more vertical or more horizontal.  Loved it.

The center stripe pieces are 4.5″ for the blue and 2.5″ for the yellow.  The fabric is Benartex yellow style 2460 , the light blue and the yellow oddly had the same number on the selvage: 2462.  The pattern is just something I put together.

Thanks!

Katherine

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