Quilt Pattern: Churn Dash

The Churn Dash is only another variety of nine-patch, one with a name that looks very like the object specified.

These patterns make a block 9 inches square if seams are allowed additional to the units here given. Odd scraps may be used for the different blocks, especially when set together in some definite order. Lightest prints to the center shading to the darkest in the outer rows gives a plan to the whole. With lattice strips of some one color about 2 inches finished, the churn dash makes a clever coverlet.

Material Estimate: This quilt, 7 blocks wide by 8 blocks long, will finish about 75 by 86 inches. You will need 3 yards of white, and 5 1/2 yards of print would be used if the block set together with print strips. If set together with alternate white squares, these amounts would reverse, 3 of print and 5 1/2 of white.

With this plan one might use Horn of Plenty to quilt on the alternate squares or the Four Flowers.