Deb watkins

This IS a great site for many different sizes and blocks. I have made many, many blocks from this, and luvspaper is right, there ARE too many to choose from!

Abby'smom

My first really successful quilt was a sampler -- I picked my primary material and made 2 blocks of each pattern -- this king quilt is really my favorite of all -- I had bought a patchwork mag showing how to do the sampler blocks and used most of the sampler blocks which I felt I could easily do as I was a real beginner -- some were pieced and some were appliqued --choose your fabric and pattern blocks and go to do, girl!

amandasgramma

I just choose blocks I want to make....and I do all mine with a coordinated color scheme. If a block I want to make is smaller than the others, I just add a "border" to the block until I get the size of the others.

peggyquilts

I have never been a lover of sampler quilts, but I have been making the Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt and really love using different techniques for each block, i.e., hand pieced, templates, paper piecing, machine stitching. I'm improving my quilting skills with each block. Just goes to show...what you hate one day, you love the next.

nab

My very first quilt was a sampler. I learned with each block. It went from railed fence to applique and a lot inbetween. I now just choose the blocks I like that compliment each other. It is fun, because each block is different.

Kutnso

A Sampler was my first quilt class over 25 years ago. Each block was a different lesson or technique to learn. Very good for a beginner or especially but also good for any level quiltmaker.
Good luck and happy Holidays, Kutnso

quilt3311

When I do a sampler I pick blocks that I like. Usually have the same size blocks, but occasionally I will use a variety of size blocks and then use filler blocks to even things out. By filler blocks, I mean pieced half square triangle blocks or flying geese, whatever will fit in the space I need to fill.

Prissnboot

I would think you could just pick the blocks you like, make them the same size so they go together and sew away! That's what I plan to do anyway...always have been more of an independent type.

mpeters1200

I have had more fun with my samplers than any of the quilts that just repeat the same blocks. Too many free patterns out there to worry about paying for some.

I got all of my patterns from www.quilterscache.com. The only "rule" that I really would stick to, is that you choose blocks that end up the same size. That is really important. Also, sashing is a really good idea because it separates the blocks a little so you can see them all individually. You are going to want to pick blocks that you can do, but that are challenging too. That's what I like about quilters cache blocks, you can see the level of difficulty. I also think that the instructions are so good there, that they are hard to mess up.

Maia B

What fine-looking GSPs! I whenever I need to make a sample block of something, and here and there, I make a 12" block and throw it on the pile for an eventual sampler quilt in blues, greens, and purples, with four "star" fabrics that aren't necessarily in each block but that set the color scheme. Like my own sporadic BOM, going 14 years now, hehe. Still paper piecing a block I started over ten years ago, was just doing a bit today while I sat with my mom. Gonna start soon my own Civil War BOM to give to her eventually.