Honey Butter Quilt Block

"Honey Butter is the Light We Need in a Dark World"

Samantha Maxwell, Pasta Magazine Online, March 22, 2204

Bee-ing Honest

Don't hate me, but I'm not a fan of honey 🍯

And since I did the majority of the cooking in our home while the kids were growing up, I simply didn't put it in many recipes. As you can imagine, it never occurred to me to make homemade honey butter.

Then my daughter attended a cooking camp at Sur la Table and brought home a recipe for roasted corn in which she frosted the corn cobs with fresh honey butter before roasting, and I immediately became a fan!

For some reason, her signature corn dish was on my mind when I learned that our November Quilt Block Mania theme is FOOD. Instantly, I thought about the Churn Dash block, one I adore.

Churn Dash Quilt Block

Traditional quilt blocks fascinate me! I'm amazed at their timeless design, and I love imagining the thousands and thousands of quilters who have used them in their beautiful projects over hundreds of years.

As I mentioned, the Churn Dash block shown above popped into my mind when I started brainstorming for food-themed block designs.

But of course, I wanted to do something unique and fun...you know, put a spin on my Churn Dash 🧈

HONEY BUTTER

Like its inspiration, the Honey Butter quilt block is a nine-patch layout that uses a variety of half-square triangles to create the four corner units and the illusion of looking down at an old-fashioned butter churn.

It's great practice for working on half square triangle, which makes it a fabulous block for "beginners. In fact, the original churn dash block was often used to teach new quilters all the way back in the mid-1800s.

My version goes beyond HST drills with the center pinwheel, which provides practice joining eight points together without losing the tips (an accomplishment by itself!).

Here are the block instructions: Honey Butter Quilt Block Instructions

Quilt Block Mania

Honey Butter is part of QUILT BLOCK MANIA, a collaboration of quilt designers who release a complimentary block pattern on the first Tuesday of every month.

Our November 2025 design theme is FOOD 🥞

Here are links to the rest of this month's featured blocks:

Have fun with this block, and please be sure to tag #TheGreenHillsQuiltCollection when you share pictures so that I can see them, too 📸 Thanks for quilting with me!

Love and hugs,