Need Help with this block
 

I have uploaded my fabric I am using for this quilt into Electric Quilt. I printed the rotary sizes for this block, What it does not tell me is how to piece this block together. EQ says this is a churn dash block. Can someone tell me the order to sew this block.

Thanks for the Help.

April

You need to assemble it using a partial seam. Here is a good tute with pictures. http://piecebynumber.com/partial_seams.htm

Thank you so much.

I would assemble the green, tan, plaid units first.
Then I would attach the first unit to the center block with a partial seam.

See attached. (Hope you get the idea from the drawings)

Ok - I'm still learning. What is a partial seam?

Thanks!

Thank you, That helps alot, I had played with it and figured I would have to make the green, tan and plaid first, I just could not figure out how to get the rest, I tried but got puckers. Thanks for your help.

A partial seam - where one only sews part of it - see the illustration - For the first seam, I only sewed between the arrows and then the rest of it is left open - I usually TIE the threads in the "middle" of the seams instead of backstitching.

The "partial seam construction" was a mystery to me, too. It's a handy technique to know about.

I am so glad to learn about this new technuque, This will open up lots of new blocks I can do. :thumbup:

You could also draft it out for paper piecing, which is the way I would do it since I absolutely hate partial seaming and y seams.

That, or you could add a seam down the center of the large tan pieces. This would make it a 9 patch and the corners would be made of half square triangles.

I agree. That's the way the block is usually sewn.

Try breaking the block down like this.

Jan in VA

Churn Dash? or center of a Balkan Puzzle block or Whirlpool block? I agree with Jan, you are missing the 8 lines to divide this up into 16 squares. I prefer handling HST's and squares vs. triangles. You could also do the rectangle with the square sewn on at the angle, press, and trim off at 1/4".
Here is a downloadable tutorial on the Whirlpool block that shows each step:
http://www.quiltmag.com/resources/qu...011-whirlpool/

I'd was going to suggest Half Square Triangles, but Jan in VA already did AND provided the graph for you.

This looks so much easier

Jenny Doan from Missouri Star Quilting has a tutorial on the churn dash block. She keeps it simple when she does tutorials.

Bearisgray has planned it out great.

Thanks for the drawn example. I know it will help a lot of newer quilters. Great job.

I agree with Jan - but I would make it even simpler. I would do the HSTs in the corner and on the
rectangles do one triangular corner. Although I do "Y" seams - they are n ot a favorite. Here is the EQ block redrawn as I would do it

Yep. This is what I would do. But the HST seam will show and many people don't like that.

...or extend the horizontal and vertical lines and some those can be half square triangles...much easier that way and I really don't think that pattern is a true churn dash!!!!!

Jan in VA this was my first thought when I saw the block. Seems to be the easiest way to me.