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.