Thread: Sampler quilts - - -

Do you have any preferences about them?

Like using the same colors - or colors from the same color families - for all the blocks?

Or the same grid - or all even or all odd grids?

Or the same "type" of block (like all stars or all drunkard's path units, for examples)?

Or - are you an "anything and everything goes" sampler quilt person?

I have seen some "anything and everything" tops that are stunning with great settings -

For myself - I would want the same colors, on the same grid, with the same "type" of block - which sounds kind of boring - but something I would be comfortable with. I like to see how many variations I can get out of a limited theme. I also think the blocks would be easier to arrange/set if all the backgrounds were similar - not necessarily matching, but all light or all dark or all shades of medium pink, for examples -

Sometimes I like 'same' quilts.....its predictability is soothing.
And other times I like quilts with different block-sizes....
What I like the most is that since I started quilting 5yrs ago, I have not been bored with any quilt!!

Originally Posted by RN-Quilter

Sometimes I like 'same' quilts.....its predictability is soothing.
And other times I like quilts with different block-sizes....
What I like the most is that since I started quilting 5yrs ago, I have not been bored with any quilt!!

That was my biggest complaint when I was sewing everything else and dressmaking. How boring quilting looked. Have been into it seriously the past two years and love it. My first sampler was a bunk bed quilt with various HST blocks. I don't care for mini quilts but lap sized are fun.

Depends on the sampler. I have made one that was all the same fabrics throughout and all 12 finished blocks done in a standard setting with sashing, no cornerstones. Then I made one out of batik block swap blocks, all different fabrics. The swap blocks were all 12" but I mixed in 6" blocks and 6 x 12 blocks, no sashing, no borders. I have a FWS on my bucket list and I plan on making it scrappy but using all civil war repros. So I guess I have no preferences when it comes to samplers except that I really like most that I see.

Sampler quilts are my favorite. I use the same colors through out the quilt, every block a different pattern(block style). Sometimes, different sizes. They are all different. I have used the same, block, using different fabrics for each block. Always a challenge at my house. Usually the bigger the challenge the better. I grew up being told I could not do things out of the ordinary, so I guess I am rebelling. It is my quilt and I can do what I want at 70. Do you think I will ever grow up? Hopefully not