Just One Block

I had a very long and stressful day today.  When I finally got home, I heated up some leftovers and ate dinner.  Then, I headed down to the sewing room.  I desperately needed some "me" time.   I saw a scrappy churn dash block on Amanda Jean's blog, Crazy Mom, a few weeks ago that I wanted to try.  Her block was a 9 1/2" square and I wanted to scale mine up to 12 1/2".  I got the graph paper out and after sketching it out, dug through my scraps and started sewing.  I was so focused that I forgot to take progress pictures!

I used a bright orange Kona for the HST's and a light grey print for my background fabric.  The Elgin Piecemakers Guild members will each be making one of these blocks for our comfort quilt project one month later this year. I'm sure everyone has a few bright scraps hanging around in their sewing rooms just waiting to be used in a block like this...