Back to my sampler blocks

More sampler blocks!

These are the first four that look at using paper piecing.  

Then I moved on to raw edge applique, with machine stitching on the edges.

There are some pretty blocks there, aren't there?

And I'm really enjoying all the blues together!

Still having lots of fun with these!
 

A Quilt Finish

Hurrah!  At last, a 'proper' quilt finish!

Approximately 63" square, from a free pattern called Layer Cake Custard Quilt Pattern - available here from FatQuarterShop.

I adjusted the pattern slightly - their version is 63" x 88" - but it was a very straightforward pattern to make, and has made me take a long hard look at my (now depleted!) stash of blues!

 It's fun, isn't it?

I enjoyed the quilting too - adding different flowers and some hearts to the quilting.

Here's one of them.

And another.

And another really simple one.

And a heart (on this fun cat print!)

Backed with a floral print, with a green inset strip.

And bound in a dark blue batik.  I'm due to give it to the intended recipient on Friday - fingers crossed that she likes it!

 

More Sampler Blocks

I have to say that it is very relaxing to just putter along, making single blocks for a sampler quilt from someone else's patterns and measurements!

These were the next three blocks that I made.

And the next four - but can you spot the mistake?  I forgot to note that I'd made the first block of this set, so, as sometimes happens with 'pick up and put down' projects (for me at least) was that I didn't remember, and cut the same block out again!

Now I've got a spare block, but also, from photographing them like this, an idea of how a full quilt of these blocks would look, which might well be something that I come back to!

The final set that I worked on, starting to incorporate half square triangles as the next learning point.

As I said, very relaxing!
 

So, I started a thing.

A couple of weeks ago I showed you the cover of a book - Alice's Wonderland Sampler Quilt.

When I'd been working through my stash of blue fabrics, finding which one's I could cut out a 10" square from, I ended up with this (rather untidy) pile of fabrics.  Almost all had started life as Fat Quarters, most had parts missing already.

Rather than put them back into the FQ stack, I decided that it was time to cut them into my 'scrap storage' sizes, ready to use.

Then I saw the book, and had an idea.  Instead of cutting them down into my standard sizes, perhaps it would be more fun to make a blue and white (ish) sampler quilt, using my new book.

So, that's what I'm planning to do!

I still have the quilt to make that I was originally cutting 10" squares for, of course, but also I run this project alongside it, and later decide whether it remains an 'as and when' project that's easy to pick up and put down, or whether it gets some dedicated time.

I'm so pleased that I thought of doing this before either putting the fabrics away or cutting them up any further!

Here are the first three blocks - they start simple, and I'm expecting them to get slightly more complex.