This is the finished sampler quilt with all the sample blocks I made for our guild’s Design Your Own Quilt project. To read more about the blocks, click on my post from April 27, 2023.

The background fabric for this quilt is a low volume grey on white print which is reminiscent of a topographic map. I struggled with how to quilt this quilt for a long time. I finally settled on a free-motion stipple pattern. I almost never use stippling as an all-over quilting pattern. I think there is usually something that can be done that is more interesting.

I did think about quilting each of the blocks differently. But the designs and the scale of the patches in each block are so different, I thought that wasn’t a good choice. I ended up with the stipple because in a way it echoed the design in background fabric. I think it was the right choice.

And I love the striped binding. I think it really helps to connect all the blocks. Making all the blocks for this quilt was a really fun project.