Free Quilt (and a Bonus Quilt, too!)

Yep, you read that right! You. too, can have a free quilt if you work from your pre-cut scrap bins and your stashed yardage. What are you saving it for anyway? (A frequently asked question of myself!) SEW, these churn dash blocks are being created solely from my 3.5" bin and my 2" bins. 

Choosing four 3.5" squares, I place them RST and, using my Folded Corner Clipper, bisect them. Save your "extra" triangles (the smaller ones) for the *Bonus* project!

Lay out your freshly-cut (larger) triangles and find whatever coordinating 2" squares you like to round out your block. Stitch this block together (I sew the HSTs together and then the top, bottom and side square pairs first so that I can "web" the block like I'd sew a 9-patch).

At this point you might like to stitch together your bonus triangles into a 4-patch.

I've been putting mine together as I go along with the larger, sashed, Churn Dash blocks. These bonus triangles are trimmed up at 2.5" (finishing to 2") and will make a cute runner or table topper. All this from fabric on  hand, and I haven't spent one penny! The Churn Dash blocks are 8", (7.5" finished). I've been cutting my sashing from some flax colored Essex linen that I've been hoarding and the cornerstones from a piece of eons-old black fabric at 2" (1.5" finished). SEW, there you go! A FREE QUILT, and a bonus quilt to boot! What could be better? I'll share my progress as this continues to come together...

Life is Good!