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Monday, January 14, 2019

Dashing To The Chapel {In The Pipeline}

January is one of our two Island Batik blog hop months! I'm working with the Bazaar line this time around, which is a gorgeous collection of brights. Some of the fabrics have floral motifs, some have butterflies and dragonflies, and some are blender prints.


I decided that I wanted to use these fabrics to make a remixed version of our Dashing to the Chapel pattern. My mom and I constructed the original quilt in 2014 as a wedding gift for my sister and her husband. Her now-mother-in-law did the long arm quilting!


The original quilt used a fat quarter bundle plus coordinates, but I am working from half yards of a fewer number of prints. Additionally, I decided to simplify things for myself slightly by not making the blocks entirely random. I picked out ten colors for the larger size churn dash blocks:


I picked out the majority of the larger prints for the larger blocks and did a lot of cutting:


Not making one block at a time allowed for a major time savings in the form of marathon strip piecing:


Followed by marathon chain piecing of the HSTs to go with them.

This process was also repeated with six fabrics for my smaller 6" churn dashes and itty bitty 4.5" churn dashes. Here's a sneak peak of the top:


My official hop day is next Tuesday -- January 22nd. Until then you can get the Dashing to the Chapel pattern on Etsy and PayHip!

Don't forget to check out all of the stops for this week of the hop:

Monday, January 14 - Fortune Teller

Tuesday, January 15  - Gypsy Rose

Wednesday, January 16 - Paisley Park

Thursday, January 17 - Soul Song

Friday, January 18 - Twilight Chic

(And a quick teaser: I changed up the border a bit for this version and I can't wait to show it off!)

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7 comments:

  1. Yvonne from Quilting JetgirlJanuary 14, 2019 at 10:57 AM

    What a fun, bright fabric collection. I look forward to seeing your finished quilt next week!

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  2. LouiseJanuary 14, 2019 at 8:46 PM

    It looks fabulous so far! Those bright colors are just luscious :)

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  3. PreetiJanuary 15, 2019 at 10:09 AM

    It is indeed a gorgeous collection of fabrics. No matter what you make with them it will be lovely. The sneak peek is so yummy. I am a bit jealous :-)

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  4. Stacey KJanuary 15, 2019 at 2:00 PM

    So pretty. What a nice quilt!

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  5. Karla BrownJanuary 16, 2019 at 9:54 AM

    Love the fabric --so bright and cheerful!

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  6. marebearJanuary 16, 2019 at 12:27 PM

    Hi Alison, What a wonderful quilt! Lovely fabrics!

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  7. KateJanuary 19, 2019 at 7:38 AM

    Love the bright colors in this version!

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