“Beginner Sampler”
Design for a patchwork quilt
This quilt was designed as a teaching quilt for a ten-week Beginner’s Patchwork course. Each week’s content built on the skills already learnt so that the students learned all the basics for machine-stitched quilts from choosing fabric through to finished quilt. Topics included:
- choosing & preparing fabric
- rotary cutting
- seams & pressing
- strip piecing
- four-patch units
- nine-patch units
- half-square triangle units
- quarter-square triangle units
- flying geese units
- variable star units
- framing units & blocks
- sashing & borders
- Rail Fence blocks
- Checkerboard blocks
- Log Cabin blocks
- Roman Stripe blocks
- Whirlwind blocks
- Clay’s Choice blocks
- Dutchman’s Puzzle blocks
- Sarah’s Choice blocks
- Snail’s Trail blocks
- the quilt sandwich
- straight line quilting
- binding & finishing
| Year | 2016 |
| Size | 62″ x 62″ (157 cm x 157 cm) |
| Series or Collection | Confident Quilting course |
| For | n/a |
| Pattern available | no |
