sharing another sampler with you.....................

Back again with another sampler quilt, this one is made by Barbara during a sampler class at The Country Yard . I used mainly Madeira poly neon threads & cotton/bamboo batting.
Warning............lots of photo's.

                                                                       68" x 68"

Not sure if it is my camera or the light, but the photo's don't give true colour & detail of the quilting...........maybe it is both??

 One of the back of the quilt. This one is a wide backing fabric by Moda, the quality is wonderful.
If you haven't had enough of the photo's here are a couple more of close ups.

More sampler quilts can be seen here and here and here , I'm sure if you put 'sampler quilts' or 'traditional sampler' etc in the search bar on the top left hand corner of my blog you will find more, as I have quilted quite a few samplers!

Underground Railroad Sampler

Eleanor Burns & Sue Bouchard wrote " Underground Railroad Sampler" book to which Barbara decided to make the quilt. Barbara chose a range of fabrics by Stoff.

I did a photo of each block.................................(as named in the book)

underground railroad

monkey wrench

wagon wheel

carpenter's wheel

bears paw

basket

crossroads

log cabin

shoo fly

bow tie

flying geese

birds in the air

drunkard's path

sail boat

north star

underground railroad

Notice underground railroad is featured twice? Barbara needed an extra, block she made another block, in slightly different colourways & I quilted the two blocks each with a different design.
My main threads used throughout were, Madeira & Gunold.
For the sashing & first border I did free hand feathers.

For the outer border I quilted an triangular design, a feather wreath in the four outer corners & filled the background to give a look of prairie points, I also used a touch of black thread, which my assistant ( AKA ~ hubby ) thought I needed to do!
Please click on the following photo to see what I mean.
Batting is a Bamboo/cotton mix.

Then finally I draped the quilt in our apple tree.....just because!

Presents, customer quilt & a rose

What do these three things have in common?? They are all at my house...........but not for long!

First the presents.........................
Cat , over at Catalina's Cottage organised a Advent Swap & I took part. So for the past month I have been sorting, making, buying & wrapping presents for my swap buddy Dawn. 
Here are all 25 of the gifts for Dawn............( one for each advent day )

  And I did manage to put them all neatly into to a box, which is now on it's way to Dawn in the USA.
There will be no public mention of how much this was to post!!!
Enjoy your 25 days of December Dawn!!

Secondly, the customer quilt
. A little cot panel quilted up for a sample at The Country Yard . Cotton batting & minky backing. My quilting inspiration came from Leah, over at the free motion quilting project, only I used my walking foot.
You really need to click on these photo's.

 I wish you could feel how soft the backing is.....................

And last, but not least, a rose.

 This will be gone soon, as roses do, but then lucky for me another will follow!

The last photo is what I have been working on for the last few days & will be finished soon.