Mercantile Sampler Sew Along - Week Eight - Churn Dash Block!!

"CHURN DASH BLOCK"

"Side Border Blocks"

"Corner Border Blocks"

Border Block tutorial 

is this week as well!

Welcome to week EIGHT of the 

"MERCANTILE SAMPLER"

Sew Along!

Are you ready to sew with me?

I hope that you will join me here each week 

when I will be doing two tutorials

 weekly...every Monday and Friday.

We are making the 

Mercantile Sampler Quilt

88" x 88"

The quilt is made with my fabric

 collection called Mercantile:)

We are piecing all 25 blocks 

and then turning them into a 

12" circle to applique onto a

 4-Patch Block background!

I detail all of the supplies 

that you need to make the quilt in my

 Bee Prepared post right here on my blog.

I have already posted the

"BEE PREPARED"

 post which not only details

 all of the supplies needed but

 explains how this sew along works.

I have also given the links there 

for the free PDF Download 

of the Sew Along Guides

CLICK HERE

to download the sew along guide

if you have not downloaded yet.

CLICK HERE

to download the sampler block

 sew along guide.

As per usual for the first block in my 

new fabric collection Sew Alongs

 that FIRST tutorial is a video.

Because I now have my own  

YouTube Channel

 I have posted the 

 Birthday Cake Block

Tutorial there.

CLICK HERE

to visit my channel and watch the 

tutorial and I hope that you love it!

Pretty please leave me a comment

over there and let me know:)

If you like what you see 

and my other videos there...

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 I post another tutorial:)

 

ANGEL STAR BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

MAPLE LEAF BLOCK

CLICK HERE

For the tutorial and blog post

  

GRANDMA'S QUILT BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

PUZZLE BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 

DUCK AND DUCKLINGS BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 

SPOOL AND BOBBINS BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 

SODA POP STAR BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 

SHOPPING BASKET BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 9-PATCH STAR BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial and blog post

 

PEONY BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the blog post and tutorial

 

CHICKADEE BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the blog post and tutorial

 

TOWN DAYS BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for the blog post and tutorial

 

YARD GOODS BLOCK

CLICK HERE

for that blog post and tutorial

Today we are making the

 CHURN DASH  and 

BORDER BLOCKS

Here's my Churn Dash cut and ready to sew!

Cutting each block is super easy

 because of the sew along guide

that is provided for you.

I'm going to show you my 

favorite way to sew a churn dash...

it's super simple:)

Let's start by sewing the

 "B" and "D" squares together.

Press the seams open.

Set the "A" squares aside and

 lay out the rest of the squares 

for the block like this

 and sew it together...

Like this:)

Now let's turn it into a churn dash.

Draw a line from corner to corner 

onto the back of all "A" squares.

Now let's add four easy 

corner triangles to complete the block.

Trim and press towards

 the easy corner triangles.

Back of my block:)

Sew the borders...

And turn it into a circle:)

Sew the 4-Patch block for the background.

Let's prepare for applique!

Use a long ruler to center your block

 with the seams in the 4-Patch.

Pin and Sue Glue into place.

Ready for applique:)

As per usual...after applique

 trim it down to 14 1/2" square 

using the 14 1/2" Trim-It Ruler.

*Continue to line up the seams 

in the block 

with the lines on the rulers that 

go both ways...straight and diagonal 

for easy peasy centering!

And now we have 15 blocks completed!

That means that you can 

sew three rows together 

and we will move on to 

 row four this Friday:)

I hope that you will love 

sewing YOUR fifteenth sampler block

for our sampler quilt...

and then turning it into a circle!

Now that we are over halfway finished 

with our blocks I've started working 

on the border pieces so that all of the 

easy corner triangles will be sewn on 

each border piece by the time that 

I'm finished with all of the blocks.

You can mark a single line on

the back of all 

152 - 2 1/2" squares

 like this...

Or use the center line of your

 Seams Sew Easy Guide

 like I usually do.

It really comes in handy 

especially when you have a lot of ECT's 

to sew on like we do for the border.

You would need to mark 152 lines... 

It saves so much time 

not having to mark each one!

Remember I have just been 

marking some of mine 

for the sake of the tutorials...

I usually use my Seams Sew Easy Guide 

whenever I can.

*When you are sewing the ECT's onto the

 four corner squares remember that the

 Easy Corner Triangles 

go on opposite sides from each other...

And when you are sewing them onto each 

border rectangle they are both 

sewn onto the end next to each other 

so you will need to sew one side

 first before you can add the other one.

I pressed all of my seams open on these

 as well as the corner squares:)

*Remember that all measurements and instructions

 for adding the borders

 are on pages 13 and 14 of the 

Sew Along Guide

So you will be ready to go

 when all of your blocks are completed!

I'll meet you right back here

on my blog this Friday for the 

Flower Pot Block tutorial...

xx

Lori

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