Design Wall Monday - 11/3/14

DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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Since I FINALLY cleared off my design wall last week -

I've been trying to get myself organized - ;))

I messed with my blog and its pages -

Re-arranging stuff -

And then -

When I was trying to get my Scraps and Squirrels under control -

I found this little orphan Churn Dash block - ;))

It's a test block -

I found the tutorial on YouTube - HERE -

It's Jenny Doan from Missouri Quilt Co. -
EDIT CORRECTION - Missouri STAR Quilt Co.

And it's about seven minutes long -

BUT -

It's TOTALLY worth it -

AND -

Jenny is LEFT-Handed -
So she rotary cuts LEFT-handed -
Although she does use scissors and irons/presses Right-Handed - ;))

Check it out -
But watch the volume on your speakers -
The duck "quack" might catch you off guard - ;))

Anyway - I LOVE their YouTube videos -
Especially because Jenny is LEFT-Handed -
And I don't have to REVERSE anything -
In my little pea-brain - ;))

BUT -

As I watched the video -

And then went to make the block -

I thought I must have MISSED something - ;))

IF the center square is a 5" charm square -

AND the corner HST are trimmed to 4-1/2" -

I couldn't understand how the middle sections could possibly FIT -

Since they were sewn and NOT trimmed -;))

If they were sewn -

They should fit the HST but NOT the un-sewn center charm square -

And if they were NOT trimmed -

They should fit the center charm square but NOT the corner HST - ;))

It didn't make sense to me -

UNTIL I realized -

That they WERE sewn -

In ONE direction -

And that that side - WITH the seam -

Was the side that is next to the HST -

And the UN-SEWN side - WITHOUT the seam -

Is the side next to the center charm square - ;))

DUH!! - ;))

And GENIUS!! - ;))

Thanks Jenny Doan and the Missouri Quilt Co.!! - ;))
EDIT CORRECTION - Missouri STAR Quilt Co.

Now my question is -

Why didn't I find this tutorial -

BEFORE I got the die? - ;))

And while I'm thinking about it -

I can't seem to find any instructions -

So could someone please explain to me -

How to layer the fabrics on the Churn Dash die? -

If I layer four fabrics -
One of each color - in two sets of two - RST -

I figure that I can get the eight pieces needed for the bars and HST -

But that I would also get three EXTRA center squares! - ;))

Is that right -

Or am I missing something? - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -