Marlene's Vintage Sampler

 

This beautiful sampler quilt was made by Marlene.  This is actually the first quilt that Marlene ever started.  She took a class from Marilyn Weibe in the late 1980s.  She was obviously an amazing teacher and Marlene was a good student as these blocks are perfection.  Oh, and the entire top was hand pieced!!

Marlene had begun the process of hand quilting this one, but other projects took priority and it never got finished. Maybe she lost motivation when she no longer lived in the house with the wall paper that matched the border fabric? So instead of letting it continue to languish in the closet, Marlene decided to remove all the hand quilting that she had done (gasp) and bring it to me for an edge to edge treatment.

Marlene chose the Feathered Garden pantograph which I think adds a lovely design element especially in the wide borders.

It is good to remember that it is okay to change original plan when making a quilt.  There is always more than one way to approach anything.  This was a really fun project for me to get to see up close!