Chooky's Churn Dash Challenge

Social Media can be a wonderful thing - you can stay in touch with friends easily - you can make friends all over the place without actually meeting them (Although it's much nicer when you do meet face to face) and anyone who follows Chooky and participates in her Chookshed Zoom meetings will know what I mean.
The downside is you see things ...  and get tempted to start yet another project...and succumb to the "peer pressure".

You know what I mean...some people resist better than others...I seem to fall into the "sucked in" group!!!

So here we are at the end of October, meeting Chooky's deadline/timeline ...whatever . . . .

My Churn Dash is completed.   (I think the goal was only the top - not the whole thing!)

It was the best picture I could get without someone to hold it up.

It started as a "Use your Stash" quilt - then I added a few bits here and there - then bought the greens and the border.  My stash doesn't include big pieces so I always need to buy that - so in effect - what I used in my stash has been replaced by leftovers of what I bought. 
Oh Well.....

Churn Dash - September

Still on track for Chooky's Churn Dash SAL

That's the end of the blocks that are needed - I need to sash & cornerstone & put them into a top - by the end of October!!

Churn Dash - August

I am pleased to say I am on track for Chooky's Churn Dash SAL.

Another 8 blocks completed

Churn Dash - July

Keeping up to date - so far!!!

Churn Dash - June

Somehow I got dragged/pushed/fell into/joined Chooky's SAL to make a Churn Dash Quilt.

I was being quite successful at resisting until a group of us were fabric buying (for our Charity Quilts).  A few were already in or teetering and someone said - "Well they don't take long once they are cut"...mmm...

So, here I am making Churn Dash blocks, and - because there is a deadline/goal to have 1/4 of the blocks finished by June 30th - they are done.

I am using a random selection of prints - from the stash - I bought the background - part of the fabric buying episode mentioned.  I have sashing and triangle fabric which I picked up new at a very very low price.

Here are the block fabrics

We "need to" do 1/4 each month til September - but then only have October to finish it off - that means sashing and setting triangles.   I really need to have a word to Madam Organiser about that ....LOL

Chookshed Sympathy Party

If you read Chookyblue's blog you will know this weekend is usually an annual Chookshed Party - with real live people gathering at her place - not via Zoom.  They sew and sew and drink and talk and laugh and sew.

BUT it's been so wet there lately - (unlike the years when the drought was so bad) that the road to her place is just not traversable.

So, to buoy her spirits a bit I had a pretend cyber sewing party with her.

Saturday I was out sewing with friends and worked on this Natalie Bird Christmas stitchery - it's a long-term project - but a handy "Go To" project.

Saturday night I finished off the RSC blocks for June  - and took a picture for a post later in the month

and sewed around the pages for the latest ABC book.

Today (after the grocery shopping  . . blah)   I turned the pages inside out - 

ready for hand stitching tonight (Sunday) when I watch the Royal Concert for the Queen's Jubilee

and then I made some more progress on my Churn Dash - that I really really wasn't going to do - but somehow got sucked into it . . . not mentioning any names, (Chooky, Helen, De)

No finished blocks yet. but a lot of HST, a lot of the rectangle pieces and the centre squares are cut.

Happy Chookshed Birthday Chooky!