The Churn Dash Swap

Hi there. If you're visiting from Barb Vedder's Fun With Barb blog, welcome! Here's the link to our Churn Dash swap. We sure had a great time making these quilts. Enjoy!

Fun with Barb and...

Have you seen my friend, Barb Vedder's, new blog? Fun with Barb and Mary follows the exploits of two quilters who maintain their long-distance friendship after one of them moves from the East Coast to the Midwest.

Wait a minute... why does that sound so familiar? Barb and I are longtime quilt friends too and have had our fair share of good times together. Just because her move from Chicagoland to the East Coast made us long-distance buddies, it hasn’t stopped the fun!

Diane and Barb, 2002

In fact, here's a case in point. Just before she moved, Barb and I collaborated on a Churn Dash block swap based on this "Chocolate Dream" pattern from the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine. Using Civil War reproduction fabrics and shirting prints, we swapped enough blocks to make two large quilts with no two blocks alike.

The Churn Dash blocks finished at 5" and were so much fun to piece. If I'd followed the pattern more closely I might have added a contrasting inner border, but as it stands, my quilt measures 64 x 85 inches. Robyn Saunders of Batavia, Illinois did a great job of machine quilting it for me.

 Link to Barb’s quilt HERE.