Sampler Quilt

 Finished at last!

My longest running UFO, a sampler quilt done in a class at The Home Patch, Bathurst.

I started the class late 2002 and then moved 6 hrs away to our farm before the class was finished. I had the quilt top finished early 2003 then had trouble quilting due to isolation and being new to it. I have made and quilted many quilts since then; and now this one is done! YEAH!!!!

DS was 2 when I started this for him, and now he is nearly 11. He is very pleased to have it on his bed, and it looks great there. I love the periwinkle blue and check in this quilt but there's no way I would choose all these fabrics to make one quilt these days, tastes change! It measures 63" x 96".

 I love how varied and interesting my ditching quilting is on the back.

 I did freemotion the hexagon block and part of the honeybee block.

 Feels so nice to touch.....

 and this is a little bassinet quilt for another baby that is due soon.

This is the reversible quilted fabric from the Whimsy range by Fig Tree Quilts; if I knew how nice this was when I ordered it I would have ordered more.....

Sampler Quilting

Fresh in the morning sun is a snapshot of my first quilt top that is almost completly quilted!

I didn't know what to choose, fabric wise, the choice was so overwhelming. I ended up choosing the border fabric (bottom left) first then a co-ordinating solid in that lovey periwinkle blue. There are alot of stripes and plaids in this quilt as I chose them so I could give the quilt to my eldest child, a boy. At the time he was just over two years old. Now he is almost 11! All things going well the quilt will be on his bed before this birthday.