Sampler quilt

I don’t think I’ve ever worked this long on any other quilt, but being a sampler, I loved every moment of it.  The quilt is large, with blocks that are big and plentiful. Whenever I have decided on a motif in an area, I have had to repeat it over and over, and it often felt as if the end of this quilt would never come.

This quilt also posed a couple of problems in that I found lots of puckering in the blocks themselves, as if the sashing around the blocks was cut too small, or it could even have been the diagonal sashing between the blocks.  I had to make a decision between keeping the sashing flat when quilting, moving the puckers to the blocks or keeping the blocks flat and allowing the puckers to gather in the sashing.

I planned rather dense quilting in both sets of sashing, so I decided to do less quilting in the blocks to move the puckers and give the illusion of loft instead of puckering.

As much as I enjoyed working on this, I am glad to finally have it off the frame.  I think my machine now needs plenty of TLC and a new needle.