Quilting the Norfolk Sampler

As soon as I laid eyes on this quilt, I knew it was one that I had to make! Does this sound familiar? It seems to be that this is often how I decide on my next quilt…I fall in love with someone else’s quilt or a quilt pattern that I see on Instagram and have to add it to my wish list…

So many beautiful quilts and just not enough time to make them all.

This is another sampler quilt also and I have noticed that I do tend to lean towards this style. I remember as a child I would spend hours looking closely at the crocheted rugs that my great grandmother used to make. I would be thinking of how she made each loop, and how long it must have taken her to do this, and how much she must love us all to make a special colourful crochet rug (afghan) for each of us. I sometimes do think about future generations or the family members who end up owning my quilts, and I do want them to be slightly captivated by the technique involved in creating different quilt blocks…in other words, I do want them to have something interesting to look at!

The pattern for this quilt is available in Quilter’s World magazines over a 4 part series. The Norfolk Sampler was designed by Wendy Sheppard (one of my favourite designers) and was a stack of fun to make! I really loved that some of the blocks were rectangular and of course loved all the stars too. It was the reason that I subscribed to Quilter’s World and I highly recommend this publication. It is very good value for the price and is available for download each season (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter). I am currently working on the new design that Wendy has in this year’s issues and will share more about that quilt (Chestnut Grove) in a future blog post.

I custom quilted my finished quilt top and the image here is showing part of a block in the process of being quilted. Today I am sharing my quilting designs for The Norfolk Sampler quilt and have made them available for downloading via the website as a free pdf file. I do ask if you would sign up to my newsletter to get my blog posts via email each week.

That a wrap from me, I will update the gallery with some images of the Norfolk Sampler in the process of being quilted and if I have any images of the final quilt I will add them to the gallery as well.

Have a great day, maybe you can see if there are any sew alongs that you might like to join but most of all — happy quilting!