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Boston1954 07-08-2010 07:00 AM

I made a 12 block sampler just to see if I liked doing those blocks. It will be used as a lap quilt, but if it were big enough for a bed it would get used there. No one can tell you not to. ;-)

Kitsie 07-08-2010 10:27 AM

I have made a couple and love doing them! Both are Queen size. I credit a lot of "growth" as a quilter with doing them! And they are so fun to do different blocks using different techniques!

kwiltkrazy 07-08-2010 10:49 AM

Definitely used on the bed as a work of art!

annette1952 07-08-2010 10:51 AM

They are beautiful on beds. Yes use them

donnajean 07-08-2010 12:01 PM

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One of my 1st quilts was a Sampler quilt.

Sample Quilt
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kwiltkrazy 07-08-2010 12:14 PM

Beautiful sampler donnajean. I always had a sampler on my to do list, something always seems to comes first.

4dogs 07-08-2010 05:45 PM

The first and second ones I made were both samplers, and both are on beds (the first one was KING size..ah gee, what a time I had with that one, esp for a first attempt).

GGquilts 07-08-2010 06:32 PM

:thumbup: I love your quilt Donna it is soooooo pretty .

Louise C 07-11-2010 04:56 AM

Oh! I love your sampler quilt, Donnajean!! It is so pretty and inviting! Thanks for posting a picture of your sampler quilt. I guess it would be a good idea to have this discussion in the picture forum, because I guess that all of you would have beautiful things to show us.

donnajean 07-11-2010 05:08 AM

Thanks for the compliment on my Sampler quilt. When my sister got me into quilting back in 1996, she insisted & even paid for me to take a class. Well, I thought I was teaching the class. There were about 12 people in the class & no machines were brought to class. The instructor would demonstrate a black, give us some hand written directions, & you were supposed to go home & create your own block. There were a couple beginner sewers that were still trying to learn how to thread a machine. I'm a retired teacher, so shortly after, I taught sewing/quilting at a local sew-n-vac shop. I would have beginners make a quilted pot holder & then a lap/baby quilt. I made sure that they completed the project start to finish. I remember how proud they would be of their 1st pot holder.


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