Zora Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Does anyone have a copy of this book they would like to sell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 No, but I have deloas quilt me a garden I would part with. $20 includes shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrna Ficken Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 No but i teach a lot of Sampler classes. What blocks do you have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted December 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Our LQS did a lot of sampler quilts for their Saturday Sampler clubs over the past several years. I have about five of these things to do, and they want "heirloom" quilting. I'm runing out of ideas, and the one I am working on now has blocks that may contain 120 pieces, many of them not recognizable as any type block in particular. Some of them are pretty, some are just chaotic. She didn't want all the blocks the same with something like a feather wreath. Somebody suggested DeLoa's sampler book. It was just a thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 What I have found to be helpful with samplers is to decide on a style and use it throughout the top. When I say style, I mean motifs and shapes that are used in each block to tie the sampler together. The most common type is CCs--those continuous curves that allow you to quilt a block in one pass. If you are comfortable with the technique of quilting the piecing like that, use the CCs to quilt the smallest pieces in the block and in the larger pieces, quilt a CC with an accent. If there are florals in the fabric, the accent can be a leaf shape. In the larger blocks, stitch the CCs and fill the space in the center with a leaf shape. You can quilt the entire sampler this way, finding larger areas for leaf shapes and in really bigger areas of a block, stitch a cluster of leaves or a flower. Another accent is a hook or a swirl to fill the space left after stitching the CCs. If you quilt this way across, the density of the quilting will be even and pleasing. I'll see if I can find a photo or two to illustrate this. Here is a sampler using a swirled hook and feathers here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 ...same quilt, different block... Same swirled hook and a peacock filler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 One more sampler--mostly CCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachside Quilter Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Beautiful sampler blocks, Linda! Great ideas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Thanks for sharing Linda, great ideas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted December 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Thanks, Linda. I will look at some of those "obnoxious" blocks again and see if that will work. I have been doing a lot of the cc's. I hadn't thought about doing the swirls to fill up the background areas. I have been mostly hung up on the small background fills..stipple, McTavishing, etc. That's what was getting boring. I'll add in some of your suggestions. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave & DeLoa Jones Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 this is the book you are looking for, it is available through my website, just click on the link below deloa http://www.deloasquiltshop.com/deloasonlinestore/samplersolutions.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 This is a great book and I go to it all the time for ideas! You can't go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Ditto on that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinneaMarie Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 I love ALL DeLoa's books; and rulers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted December 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Thanks, DeLoa..I have this on my shopping list for MQS this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave & DeLoa Jones Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Your welcome, actually another great place to go is my daughters iste, she is really been busy and has a ton of pictures of quilts she has done to give you ideas too. here is the link to the photos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicasquiltingstudio/ and here is here is her website www.jessicasquiltingstudio.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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