First Sampler

This sampler was completed in a class with Joy Dixon.  I started this in April 1987, just a month after PJ was born.

It is hand pieced and hand quilted and I loved making it. When selecting the fabrics the only thing I knew was that I wanted it to match with the lampshade we had at the time and that was why there is so much pink in it.

Joy was a great teacher who thought that we should learn those skills we would need so that if we saw a pattern we could modify it to suit our needs and then make it.  I have never had a better teacher.

Oh the quilt was also quilted to death since she also said that if it was heavily quilted it would be able to be machine washed.  This quilt has served me well over the years and has been washed numerous times.  Now however it is quite frail and is seldom used.