Quilt Sampler

by Nadine Edwards

I created this web site to share images of sampler quilts and block patterns as well as instructions for creating them. A mother of seven children by profession and a maker of quilts by hobby, I started making sampler quilts and can't seem to stop. I'm formulating plans for the next quilt before the current one is finished! I love the colors, the patterns, and the symmetries of quilt making. It is a journey of beauty and imagination.

In a sampler quilt, each block is unique from every other. This site features 72 different four-patch block patterns that can be used to create sampler quilts. Most of these blocks can be constructed using just two piece shapes, a small square and a small triangle. For dimensions for these and the other pieces used in the quilts, please see the instructions.

Please take a look around, and enjoy your visit! If you have questions, comments, ideas, or images of sampler quilts or block patterns that you would like to share, you may e-mail me. Good luck!

block patterns

instructions

Some of my favorite quilt sites:

http://www.quilterscache.com is a terrific site for finding block patterns by name. Beautiful construction diagrams. Written in a friendly style. Click on Quilt Blocks Galore.

http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/AlphaBlockList.html has diagrams of 76 four-patch and nine-patch block patterns as well as detailed construction instructions.

http://www.mccallsquilting.com/qb/ is a wonderful site with many block patterns sorted alphabetically.

http://www.blockcrazy.com/index.htm has tons of block patterns. Many of them would fit nicely in a sampler quilt similar to the ones on my site. Click on Pieced Blocks.

http://www.quilttownusa.com/mom/block.htm is a wonderful must-see site with sewn examples of 67 quilt block patterns.

http://blockcentral.com/blocklibrary.shtml shows block patterns that would work well with the types of sampler quilts on my site.

http://www.fabrics.net/LaurettePatterns.asp has a fun article on the history of quilt block names. Beautiful photographs of about 20 quilts. Also by Laurette Carroll, see this article and this one.

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting_blocks/article/0,,HGTV_3299_1391137,00.html shows lovely sampler quilts and has machine piecing instructions.

Blocks

Quilts

Instructions