The Anniversary Sampler Quilt: 40 Traditional Blocks, 7 Keepsake Settings

by Donna Lynn Thomas

Overview

Celebrate any important event in life, from an anniversary or a birthday to a retirement or a memorial, with these 40 beautiful blocks and 7 customizable settings. Created to commemorate the author’s 40th anniversary of falling in love with her husband (and making her first quilt for him!), you can read the story behind each block, then make it personal by stitching in your own memories and using blank blocks for personal dedications. Piece and appliqué the stunning sampler quilt, or pick and choose your blocks and setting to suit your own needs and taste.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617454561
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	134
File size:	27 MB
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About the Author

Donna Lynn Thomas has been sewing since the age of four and passionately quilting since 1975. Since 1981 she has been teaching, writing, and designing quilts and tools, including the Omnigrip On-Point Ruler. She lives in Kansas.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

General Information
Fabrics
Supplies

Specialty Quiltmaking Skills
Mastering an Accurate Seam Allowance
Oversized Half-Square Triangle Units
Folded Corners
Striped Units
Striped Squares
Striped Rectangles
Striped Triangles
Making and Using Templates
Making Templates
Marking and Cutting Fabric Pieces
Sewing Template Marked Pieces
Basic Hand Piecing
Making Appliqué Stems
Partial Seams

The Anniversary Quilt: Forty Years of Love
Materials
Cutting

Falling in Love
Block 1: Dresden Plate
Block 2:Clay's Choice
Block 3: Churn Dash
Block 4: Sawtooth Star

The Pleasure in the Process
Block 5: Blazing Star
Block 6: Gentle Breeze
Block 7: St. Louis Star
Block 8: Simple Star

For the Love of Gardening
Block 9: Rosebud
Block 10: Posy Basket
Block 11: Pansy
Block 12: Nosegay

You Should Love Your Work
Block 13: Schoolhouse
Block 14: Honey Bee
Block 15: Yankee Puzzle
Block 16: Paddlestar

Oh the Friends I've Made!
Block 17: Kansas Troubles
Block 18: Friendship Star
Block 19: Album
Block 20: Single Irish Chain

The Places Love Has Taken Me
Block 12: North Carolina Lily
Block 22: Kansas Winds
Block 23: A Flock of Birds
Block 24: Outward Bound

A Piece of My Heart
Block 25: A Piece of My Heart
Block 26: Cupid's Arrow
Block 27: Memory
Block 28: Capital T

The Threads of Life
Block 29: LeMoyne Star
Block 30: Ann's Pinwheel
Block 31: My Three Vets
Block 32: Steppingstones

It's Fun to Play
Block 33: Sleight of Hand
Block 34: Shimmering Leaf
Block 35: Candy Dots
Block 36: Shifting Winds

What Goes Around Comes Around
Block 37:Folded Box
Block 38 Starry Path
Block 39: Eveningshades
Block 40: Key West Beauty

The Anniversary Quilt Assembly
Framing the Blocks
Make the Medallion Center
Make the Block Quadrants
Make the Outside Appliqué
Complete the Quilt Top
Finish the Quilt Top

Alternate Anniversary Quilt Sets
Ten-Year Anniversary
Twenty-Year Anniversary
Twenty-Five Year Anniversary
Thirty-Year Anniversary
Forty-Year Anniversary
Fifty-Year Anniversary

Template Patterns

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/01/2018
In 1975, author Thomas fell in love with both quilting and her husband, Terry. To commemorate her 40th anniversary, she designed a sampler quilt featuring 40 individual blocks, each made twice. The blocks include a number of traditional favorites in a framed, on-point layout with appliquéd flower vines as embellishment. This guide gives instructions for stitching each of the blocks, as well as several setting options for quilters interested in commemorating their own special anniversaries. Both hand- and machine-piecing are used, and many of the blocks require cutting templates provided on a pullout sheet. VERDICT Thomas's chronicle-in-patchwork of her years as a quilter and a military wife brings personal meaning to ever-popular sampler quilts, and skilled quilters will enjoy both the blocks and the stories behind them.

Library Journal

12/18/2017
As informative as it is intimate, the latest book from quilting teacher Thomas (Quilting Essentials) focuses on the quilt she made her husband for their 40th wedding anniversary. “We quilters have our favorite ... that are tied to important events and special memories,” writes Thomas, who selected 40 of her favorite block patterns for the project and incorporated the color red (traditionally associated with 40th wedding anniversaries) into each. She introduces each block with a headnote, explaining its personal significance. There’s a block dedicated to her friend Ann, a fellow quilter, who passed away several years ago; another represents her family’s military service. Especially warming is the block inspired by her uncle Reed’s “old blanket” (a perfectly preserved album block quilt with 42 signatures dated from 1842). She explains how to make each block with shaded graphics and with arrows denoting pressing directions at seams. Her best teaching comes in a section titled “Specialty Quiltmaking Skills,” which includes tips on such topics as mastering an accurate seam allowance and folding corners. In the final section Thomas lays out plans for alternate anniversary quilts. The book is best suited for intermediate quilters and does a great job of illustrating the commemorative component of the quilting tradition. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly