sampler quilt

started: august 20th, 2010

completed: march 16th, 2012

dimensions: 58"x58"

notes: this is the sampler quilt that i made with my mom and trish derrick. beth and i wanted to learn some quilting skills, so they came down and gave us quilting lessons over the course of several months. each square taught us different skills and by the end we had learned several new techniques. beth and i made the same squares, but with different fabrics, so each of our quilts looks different, but similar at the same time. it was fun to see how much fabric selection can affect the look of a quilt. maybe when she is done with hers i can post pictures of them together.

the quilt did not come together as i anticipated. i had wanted to put the squares together with sashing between each square, but couldn't find a fabric that i liked for the sashing. instead, we opted to just put them flush together and it worked out pretty well. 

this was really a joint project between my mom and me. and my mom did the hard work. she quilted the whole thing, beautifully. she recently took a freehand quilting class, wanted to try some of the things that she had learned, and volunteered to take on the quilting. i had the top done a while ago but had lost steam on it and was happy to turn it over to her. also, i had envisioned quilting it the way that my mom was going to do it (different designs on each square, particular to the features of each square), but knew that my execution would never look the way i wanted it to. 

so in the end, this was a sampler quilt for both of us. a sampler in piecing for me and a sampler in quilting for my mom. she really should have joint custody of the quilt. maybe i'll let her have it on holidays and weekends or something. 

here are some more detailed pictures of the quilting. i took a bunch and didn't feel like deciding which ones to include, so i just included them all.