This quilt finish was a long standing WiP, 100 weeks to be specific. It took me forever to finish the 1/2″ quilting on this quilt. I am so thrilled with the addition of the pink binding and to finally finish the quilt and the tutorial series, this past week.

I had a great journey with this quilt:

• I started this way back during Sewdown Nashville, where I met Melanie Tuazon for my first time. I have found great quilty friends in this experience.
• I discussed some of the complexities in my original design, with Melanie and finished that first block (Broken Chevrons).
• My first sampler quilt.
• I taught these blocks, as a 4-part series at Spoonflower in 2014. It was my first quilting class, I taught.
• It was the first quilt I had sponsored (by Spoonflower). All the fabric was supplied.
• I was able to write my first guest blog post on HST (half-square triangles).
• All the blocks are all available now as free tutorials.

I simplified two of the blocks (6 & 7) and changed block 9 slightly from this original design.

The other thing I changed, was the addition of sashing between the blocks, and the slight offset in row 2. The offset is from no sashing between blocks 4 & 5 as I liked the fluidity of these blocks together. I added extra sashing on the right edge.

For the back, I want to use some of the extra neutrals I had left over with pull in the triangle designs from the front. I landed up with this improv. off-set cross with nested flying geese (made from left over HST’s). I almost love the back more than the front….I love the minimalism.

For the quilting, I wanted to use the Inset Triangle block (block 8) as the initial focus. You can see the quilting lines have this arrow pointing down  – this effect was using this block. All the quilting is 1/2″ straight lines, created with my walking foot. I used Aurifil #2021 (Off-White) for the fantastic texture.

Details

Name: Spoonflower Sampler Quilt
Design: Designed by me
Fabric: Spoonflower Fabrics (listed here).
Dimensions: 40″ x 40″
Quilted: Straight Line quilting, Aurifil 50wt #2021

Tutorials

It’s a great quilt to make if you want to practice accuracy of piecing with 1/2″ pieces, play with HST, half-rectangle triangles, diamonds and some paper piecing. All the blocks to make this quilt can be found here.

Please Note: If you every make the sampler or any of the blocks use #spoonflowersamplerquilt and/or link back to the tutorial. Michelle Wilkie @ Factotum of Arts”.

This block is a little different from the others as there are no fixed layouts. It is just a combinations of Half-Square Triangles and striped blocks.

Materials and Cutting Instructions

Making your block

Half-Square Triangles (total of 8 HST)

Use the 6″ Squares (in the 4 colours) to make two (2) sets of HST colors using method 1 in this tutorial. Note: you will land up with four (4) 3.5″ HST per color way.

Stripes (total of 8 Striped blocks)

The stripe blocks are very simple. In my block, I made two (2) of each alternating stripe blocks, mixing the order of the colored 1.5″ x 3.5″ strips with the white 1.5″ x 3.5″ strips.

Finishing your block

This is now your choice on the placement of your 16 pieces.  Here are a couple of other ideas:
   

You will have a finished block 12″ (unfinished 12.5″).

Additional Spoonflower Sampler Quilt Block tutorials:

• {Block 1: Broken Chevrons}
• {Block 2: Fallen Obelisks}
• {Block 3: Modern “T” Block}
• {Block 4: Formula One (on the track)}
• {Block 5: Formula One (finish line)}
• {Block 6: Cheshire Checker Board}
• {Block 7: Diamonds in the Rough}
• {Block 8: Inset Squares}

Please Note: If you every make the sampler or any of the blocks use #spoonflowersamplerquilt and/or link back to the tutorial. Michelle Wilkie @ Factotum of Arts”.