Sister Sampler Quilts Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my stop on the Sister Sampler Quilts Blog Hop!

I was delighted and honoured when AnneMarie of Gen X Quilts asked me to be on her blog hop for her new book. If you have arrived here from AnneMarie's blog then welcome!

This book ticked so many boxes for me that I couldn't wait to dive in.

I am a big fan of sampler quilts. I love a quilt where your eye roams around it taking in all the different details but, being a bit of an enigma, I like a quilt to be balanced and work as a whole. All 3 of the sampler quilts have such a clever way of achieving this.

The Vice Versa Sampler includes 2 blocks that are the negative of each other, switching the colour placement from one into the background space of the other producing 2 very different but totally complementary blocks. You can see this in the Shoofly block above. Such a clever and unique idea.

In her second sampler quilt, Bonfire Sampler, AnneMarie has taken components from curved blocks and string blocks and constructed them in new and exciting ways, as you can see in the Friendship Star block above. The whole quilt has a strong border of HSTs giving the overall effect of a giant detailed Bearpaw.

The third sampler is the Sisters' Ten Sampler which incorporates 10 blocks each done in 2 varying ways, giving the quilt unity in design but added interest by not repeating them in the same fabrics...just like sisters...the same but different. Having a sister, and both being very different, this quilt really appealed to me.

The sign of a good quilting book is that I want to dive straight into it and start making. It actually took me ages to get started but only because I wanted to make everything...all at once...

I eventually settled on trying out the Button Block, mainly because I have a current love of curves and wanted to choose a block with curves. I so nearly went for the Time and Energy block so I guess I will be doing that pretty soon.

AnneMarie's instructions are clear and concise and the added diagrams make assembling the blocks very straight forward. I am definitely a visual learner and to be able to assemble a block simply by looking at the diagrams is a real plus for me.

If you haven't seen this book yet I really urge you to. There is a lot of mileage in it. There are so many options for doing the quilts in so many different ways which is another big tick for me when choosing a new quilting book.

Thank you for visiting my stop on the tour. Do go click on all the other stops for some great reviews, block and quilt making, along with some great giveaways of the book.

Sister Sampler Quilts: 3 Modern Sampler Quilts with Paired Sister Blocks

By AnneMarie Chany

Fons & Porter/F+W; $19.99

http://www.sistersamplerquilts.com

Monday, January 18  

AnneMarie Chany / Gen X Quilters - Introduction

Sara Lawson / Sew Sweetness

Tuesday, January 19 

Leah Day / Free Motion Project
Brenda Ratliff / Just A Bit Frayed

Wednesday, January 20

Faith Jones / Fresh Lemons Quilts
Angela Pingel / Cut To Pieces

Thursday, January 21

Lynne Goldsworthy / Lily's Quilts
Amy Friend / During Quiet Time

Friday, January 22

Christa Watson / Christa Quilts
Violet Craft

Monday, January 25

Lee Heinrich / Freshly Pieced
Melissa Corry / Happy Quilting

Tuesday, January 26

Karen Lewis / Karen Lewis Textiles

Amy Gibson / Stitchery Dickory Dock

Wednesday, January 27

Sherri McConnell / A Quilting Life

Melissa Mortensen / Polka Dot Chair

Thursday, January 28

Amy Ellis / Amy's Creative Side

Heather Valentine / The Sewing Loft

Friday, January 29

Cindy Wiens / Live A Colorful Life 

AnneMarie Chany / Gen X Quilters - Wrap Up