Made by Yvonne

Several people have asked me what kind of sampler I’m making. This is the book I’m working from:

Lynne Edwards’ New Sampler Quilt Book: Twenty Techniques for Machine and Hand Patchwork: New Ideas New Methods

A good friend of mine, Bente and I never have time to go to classes, so we decided this was the next best thing: Do a sampler.

We meet up once a month and try to finish (start or just continue) one block a month. This way, we are able to learn new methods - the instructions are really good and we get to spend some time together doing what we really love. Neither of us like to do the same over and over, and know we get to do many different blocks and we have time to make other things as well.

It’s 20 different techniques - both hand and machine. And it’s possible to quilt as you go along. I haven’t tried it yet - but it might be my summer project. Easy to take with me. We hope to be finished by 2020 - that’s the life of fulltime working mothers..

Here are my three blocks so far. The blue seems out of order, but I think once the whole thing is done it’s going to blend in nicely. I’m using mostly fat quarters - but have bought about a meter of the light background and the red borders. Let me know if anybody else have been making this or want to start!

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