July Color of the Month Challenge 2026

ByConnie Kresin Campbell
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July Color of the Month Challenge 2026

The color for July is YELLOW. This is a color I don’t seem to use much by itself but I add it as a accent color many times.

July Color of the Month Challenge 2026

Yellow Churn Dash Quilt Blocks

I continued making the Churn Dash quilt blocks using my leftover batiks from my Island Batik ambassador quilt projects. I used a mixture of batiks and cotton quilting fabrics. I do this quite often. The white is a premium muslin. 

This is a fast and easy quilt block to make.

July Color of the Month Challenge 2026 Churn Dash quilt blocks

Download the Churn Dash Quilt Block Tutorial

You can download the free PDF for the block here.

July Color of the Month Challenge 2026 Churn Dash quilt blocks

Trimming the Half Square Triangle Quilt Blocks

I normally say I’m not a perfectionist but….I do like my HSTs (half square triangles) to be “perfect”. I always make them a little bigger and then trim to the correct size.

I bought a set of Lori Holt’s 5 piece Trim-It rulers and use them all the time to square up my quilt blocks.

The only time I don’t do that is if I am using my Accuquit and a HST die.

Trimming the HST quilt block
Perfectly square half square triangle quilt blocks

Morning Glory quilt blocks for the July Color Challenge

I am continuing to make a couple of Morning Glory quilt blocks also.

You can find the free block pattern here.

Morning Glory quilt blocks for the July Color Challenge

Kitty Blocks

I always loves showing a photo of what the block sections would look like this way. Can you see the kitties? Just add some eyes.

Morning Glory quilt blocks for the July Color Challenge that look like Kitties

No Quilt Police in my Quilt Studio

I have been making folded corner quilt blocks for years and years and I still seldom make a perfect one.

You can iron a fold or I prefer to draw a line with a Frixon marker. I hope you can see that I stitched my line just a hair to the right of the line so account for the folded fabric. If I had stitched right on the line, my white square probably wouldn’t cover completely.

When folded my white square is a little big. I will trim it off and continue with my piecing.

Are my corners perfect? No, but I’m okay with that.

folder corner on quilt block

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Color Challenges for 2026

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About Connie

Hi, I’m Connie Kresin Campbell, the quilter, writer, and photographer behind Freemotion By the River. I enjoy inspiring others with my quilt tutorials and patterns. You’ll also see my sweet adopted dogs from time to time.

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    1. WOW I was expecting bright and you delivered the sunshine in full glory!!!!!!!!! Beautiful! Have a lovely safe Fourth of July!!!!!!

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