Dresden Quilt Workshop Quilt-Along Challenge Week #15

Once again, I'm playing catch up on Suzn Quilts' Dresden Quilt Workshop Quilt-Along Challenge.  I'm all caught up now, so over the next few days, I'll be posting the challenge steps I've been behind on.

So week #15 was churn dash blocks.  

 We were to use 3 of the Dresden plates from week #14 and build a churn dash block around them!

 They're so pretty!

3 Dresden Churn Dash Blocks!

I'm really loving working with this fabric line...I just wish there were more "color" fabrics.  There must be just as many neutral fabrics as all of the red, blue and brown fabrics combined together.  It does make for more difficult fabric selection, but this IS a challenge and I shall persevere!

DQWC Weeks #1-15

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~ Heather

The Splendid Sampler 2 - the beginning

Have you been participating in The Splendid Sampler 2 Sew Along?  Pat Sloan and friends have done it again...they came together to compile some of the cutest blocks, with the most techniques, to make the most adorable sampler quilt!

I've been working on this quilt for about a month, now, and I've finally gotten all 100 of the blocks made.  Over the next 5 days, I'll share photos of my blocks.  Here are the first 20 for today!

The Splendid Sampler 2 book is laid out by technique for the most part.  The majority of the beginning blocks are all simply machine pieced (some with many, many more pieces than others)!

As the book goes on, more intricate designs are revealed like the faux cathedral window block below.

That's it for today.  Come back tomorrow to see 20 more blocks!  Now I'm off to start cutting the fabric strips for the sashings.  I plan to set them using the A Splendid Quilt Setting, offered as a free pattern online HERE.

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~ Heather