SFMQG is pleased to present another great workshop.
Workshop: Improv That Block: Churn Dash
Instructor: Sherri Lynn Wood
Date: Sunday, August 16, 2026 Time: 1pm-5pm EDT
Cost: $30 Registration open in Store on Saturday, June 27, 2026 9am est.
Workshop Description:
This short format, improv patchwork, quilt-along is designed to get your guild members improvising and flow-sewing in fresh and surprising ways from your head, heart and hands.
A playful, contemplative exploration of the Churn Dash quilt block. This unique immersive improv quilt-along, includes
90 min ruler-free piecing demo & brainstorming session identifying key construction pivot points of the block, and ideas for pattern for variations. (head)
15 min break
15 min in-depth pattern specific, visualization/ centering meditation. (heart)
60 min of flow-sewing (hands)
30 min Q&A, trouble shooting & composition ideas.
30 min wrap-up and sharing session
Churn Dash, sometimes called Monkey Wrench or Hole In The Barn Door, is a very old nine-patch quilt block pattern, originating between 1800 and 1849. It has been inspiring quilters for over 200 years! Are you ready to rediscover the Churn Dash quilt block and make it new?
About Sherri Lynn:
Sherri Lynn Wood teaches improvisational quilting as a creative life practice, and is considered an expert innovator and leader in the modern improv quilting movement. Her best-selling book, The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting & Living Courageously (Abrams, 2015), provides scores, or frameworks, for flexible patterns and creative exploration, along with practical instruction in stitching techniques and intuitive color.
Exposure to the liberated abstract quilts of black makers such as Rosie Lee Tompkins and Arbie Williams in the early 1990’s, ignited her passion for improvisational quilting and initiated her trajectory as a community based artist focused on restorative social practice.
Sherri Lynn is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, two MacDowel Fellowships, and numerous artist residencies, including Recology San Francisco, where she undertook the task of presenting a body of work made entirely from materials scavenged from the city dump. She holds a
Master's in Fine Arts in sculpture from Bard College and a degree in Theological Studies from Emory University.
Find out more about Sherri Lynn Wood at Website: www.sherrilynnwood.com • IG @sherrilynnwood • Community: BravePatch.school