Modern Sampler Done!

I started making blocks for this modern sampler quilt in October 2020. I had to buy some of the gray background fabric for the blocks but the rest of the fabrics were in my stash--the white fabric has glasses on it and appears in every block.  All of the other fabrics have dots or lines on them in orange or blue and white. It took a year to make all of the blocks as it was a block of the month program.  I made one extra block so that I could set them as shown in the picture below. The blocks sat in a drawer for quite a while--I could not decide what colour of background fabric to use.  I took them to a quilt store in Stratford last fall and finally found something I liked--Navy blue solid.  The borders were completed in January and I pieced the back with leftovers and other fabrics from my stash and took it to the long armers who quilted it with organic wavy lines and random circles, as I requested.  And this week, it is done!  It will be used on the single bed in my daughter's old room.  

I'm happy to say that Finn approves as you can see by his waggy tail. 

While most of my hand stitching time this week was devoted to hand stitching the binding on the sampler quilt, I did manage to add some stitches to my Sunflowers as well. 

I have not shown a picture of my knitting recently--my scarf is now 23" long.  Hopefully, it will be done before next winter!

After a week of cold, wet weather, today was finally sunny and warm enough to spend some time outside on the front porch.  Finn looks like he is in jail here!  

I will link up with Kathy in the morning. I will be doing some cross stitch tomorrow for my slow Sunday stitching.  I will also link up with Frederique.