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My Summer Sampler 2020 quilt is complete, and I couldn’t be more pleased! (Click here to get the pattern.)

I just loved working with this color palette – I have a feeling you’ll be seeing more variations on this palette from me in the future. Creating this palette—and the fabric pull that brought it to life—was a labor of love, with tons of tweaking and refining as I went. Often, by the time I finish a long-term project like this, I’m tired of the colors and I’m ready to move on to a new palette ...

It must officially be fall, because the final Summer Sampler 2020 block has been released! Here’s a round-up of all the blocks that have been released since my last post for our annual summer quilt-along. (Want to get the Summer Sampler 2020 pattern? Click here!)

Block 7: Diverge by Nicole Neblett of Mama Love Quilts
This is such a fun block and gives you a great opportunity to use lots of colors and prints. Really the only tricky thing about this block is keeping track of where the colors go as you make your Flying Geese units.

Block 8 ...

Happy July! Now that summer is in full swing, I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends about how this has really been a “silver lining summer.” We’ve had so many wonderful stop-and-smell-the-flowers type activities with family and close friends that never would have happened if our usual busy summer had gone off as planned. Things aren’t perfect, of course, but we’ve had unexpected moments of magic too. I hope you’re experiencing the same thing! But in the meantime, in the quilting realm …

Here are six “easier than they look” quilt blocks—that you ...

That’s right, Summer Sampler 2020 launches TODAY! Are you ready for a summer of low-stress, easy piecing? Something tells us you are!

Would you believe that this is the 5th annual Summer Sampler Series?! Katie and Faith and I have so much fun putting this together every year, and it’s grown so much—more than 1,500 of you participated in last year’s “Piecing Bootcamp” skill-builder-themed sampler. It was beyond our wildest expectations!

This year, for our 5th annual Summer Sampler, we’re bringing you a laid-back summer of low-stress piecing. We know quilting is one of ...