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Summer Sampler

July 8, 2013 By - 7 Comments

Drum roll please! After two years I finally finished my Summer Sampler! Horray!

I made the quilt top during the summer of 2011 with Faith (Fresh Lemons quilts), Lee (Freshly Pieced) and Katie (Swim Bike Quilt) and their Summer Sampler quilt along. I really wanted this quilt to also be a free-motion sampler and that is one of the reasons I waited to quilt it. I wanted to practice and make sure I knew what I was going to do for each block. So this year on May long weekend I did nothing but quilt quilt quilt for 3 days! This quilt is really dense with stitching but I am so proud of what I did! I'm finally able to post the pictures of my final quilt! I used all kinds of colors of my lovely 50wt Aurifil thread. I think the pictures speak for themselves.

The spinning feathered star I quilted in the center of the last start (block 12) is my favourite! I love how it turned out! In the border I did a hooked swirl scroll that I learned in Angela Walters Free-Motion Quilting book.
I wanted to add a little pizzazz to the binding so I putting in a little row of scraps in for a point of interest.
I really liked my flying geese motif separating the columns of blocks so I carried this over into the label on the back. I printed the logo and information on my printer, it looks light in the photo but its better in person. And then I added the date into the border by quilting pebbles around the numbers that I drew with a disappearing pen. You can still see some of the pen in this picture but its all faded now. It was really a lot of work to do that but I absolutely love how that turned out!

I couldn't be more pleased with how this quilt turned out! It's my best work so far! I love the quilting, the design, the layout, the blocks, the colors! I am really excited to finally share it with you all! I learned a lot while making this quilt and I had a lot of fun being part of the quilt along and Flickr group in 2011.

 

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  1. Kyla says:
    July 8, 2013 at 4:27 am

    OH MY WORD!!!! Kerrie!!!! SO incredible!!!! This is amazing!!!!!!! I just love it SO much – makes me want to go and practice practice practice my FMQing! Great job!!!!

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  2. Cassie says:
    July 8, 2013 at 4:30 am

    Absolutely LOVE it!!

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  3. Julia says:
    July 8, 2013 at 9:58 am

    Wow your free motion quilting is amazing!

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  4. Tina says:
    July 8, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    Amazing! You are so so so talented!

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  5. Tennille says:
    July 8, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    So incredibly beautiful! You did a phenomenal job.

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  6. Jackie says:
    July 8, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    wow Kerrie. Really amazing. I’ve always loved this quilt, even before you quilted it, but now? WOW, it is crazy good. You are so so gifted.

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  7. Michelle G says:
    July 9, 2013 at 2:56 am

    Amazing! It is gorgeous.

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