Sampler Quilt
 

I want to make a sampler and would like to know if you use the same fabrics and
colors in each block, or is there a hard and fast rule for making this quilt.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Elaine

Nope .... never any hard and fast rules in quilting!
Your quilt ... do whatever YOU want to do!!!!!!!!

Some do samplers where every block is different.
Some use one background fabric and switch up the others.
Some use all the same fabrics in each and every block.
Some choose fabrics that are very colour and style coordinated.
Some go totally scrappy and throw caution totally to the wind!
(and yup, I've done them ALL!:D:D)
(wait ... nope, I haven't done the fully matchy-match fabric one!)

Whatever you want to do ... you can do!!!!!!!!!!

My theory is " My quilt, my rules". Lol. I have made sampler quilts color co-ordinated and some not. Both ways turned out great. I don't listen to quilt police. Besides quilt police don't live on this board. All are great here.

You can do whatever pleases you. This is one of mine. When the quilting is done, I will put two labels, one will tell the names of the blocks.

All of the above, and sometimes the blocks are different sizes, with filler blocks added. They are fun to do.

WOW!!! That is great. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to those who have responded to my question. I now have
a clearer picture, before I jump in.

You can do either. Here are pictures of a "color coordinated" sampler and a sampler made from block swap.
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The absolute joy of samplers are the NO RULES...only if YOU choose to place such on yourself.Say choosing fabrics with a color matching scheme. The real purpose behind a Sampler is the Blocks. It is to display the choice of blocks and the ability to make the pattern of that block. That's the real fun is hunting down the blocks you want to make.Go for it, have fun, and show your end results to us.

Thanks nannyrick for asking your questions and to those who answered, You help all of us that are not just ready to jump into that quilt...I may make a sampler my next quilt. Boston1954 and feline fanatic Your quilts are beautiful. Colors are sharp and coordinated

Here's some Samplers that I have made .....

Scroll down to the second quilt in this link, for what I call, a Modern Sampler. This was made as a Mystery Challenge thru an LQS. We were given a pattern at the start and had the choice of three colourways ... batiks, lights or darks. In selecting, we had no idea what that would be, and only found out each month, when we were given a 3" strip, 1/2WOF and told which block we were to make, using all or a small piece of that fabric in the assigned block, adding fabrics from our stash or using ones from previous months.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...s-t153488.html

For my Farmer's Wife Sampler, I just kept picking fabrics from my stash, using them 3 times maximum, and sometimes less .... 144 fabrics later! The sashing, cornerstone, setting triangles, border and binding fabrics were not chosen til very near to the end.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t226726.html

I made my Pony Club Sampler, right after my FWS above, but instead chose the constant yellow batik background fabric first. Very near to the start, I decided on the sashing and cornerstones, adding them to two sides as I went along and then used the same fabrics for the borders, flange and binding.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...r-t226710.html

This one is the same Modern Sampler pattern as the first one above. I was having so much fun, that I decided to do a second, choosing the batik option for the fabric choices. End result, a totally different look!
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This was my first sampler as well as first quilt when I got back in the groove a few years ago. More matchy matchy ... the background, and sashings (no cornerstones) are the same fabric. I chose one fabric to build the added fabrics too, thinking it would be the borders. Lesson learned, do not follow the LQS' encouragement ... for as I proceeded I just could not envision that fabric as borders, so only used it in the blocks. Each of the prints were only used three times in the sampler blocks.
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