See-Saw pattern and templates Quilt pattern from Margaret Sampson George See pattern only entry for more description
The making of this large quilt will take you on a wonderful journey of fabrics old and new and imagination using them The story of it is included in all the pattern notes and detail as only Margaret Sampson George can write in her own way Using lots of appliquéd shapes and just beautiful pieces of fabric from your treasures you will love this The background requires 5 1/2 meters of 150cm wide fabric And lots and lots of your favourite scraps
The making of this large quilt will take you on a wonderful journey of fabrics old and new and imagination using them The story of it is included in all the pattern notes and detail as only Margaret Sampson George can write in her own way Using lots of appliquéd shapes and just beautiful pieces of fabric from your treasures you will love this The background requires 5 1/2 meters of 150cm wide fabric And lots and lots of your favourite scraps
A quilt called Grace from Margaret Sampson George named after her mother Using diamonds with parallelograms as the joiners is a great scrappy quilt with some order within Marg is using epp to make hers
The See-Saw pattern from Margaret Sampson George This is the digital version of the pattern and your printer must be set at 100% before printing, please check
A quilt called Grace from Margaret Sampson George named after her mother Using diamonds with parallelograms as the joiners is a great scrappy quilt with some order within Marg is using epp to make hers
Casablanca quilt pattern, templates and papers pack If you want to use papers epp way of doing Casablanca then this is your choice Template and papers pack cost is $71.00 Pattern $25.00 See pattern only listing for more details of this quilt design
Small Victories quilt pattern designed by Margaret Sampson George is a fun play with fabrics and medals presented to people as awards for almost anything over many many years. If you google anything as far as these subjects are concerned, you will find so many things to choose from to put in your quilt to personalise your version.
See-Saw pattern and templates Quilt pattern from Margaret Sampson George See pattern only entry for more description
Casablanca quilt pattern from Margaret Sampson George This is the digital version and you need to have your printer set at 100% before you print it out
A quilt called Grace from Margaret Sampson George named after her mother Using diamonds with parallelograms as the joiners is a great scrappy quilt with some order within Marg is using epp to make hers
Small Victories quilt pattern designed by Margaret Sampson George is a fun play with fabrics and medals presented to people as awards for almost anything over many many years. If you google anything as far as these subjects are concerned, you will find so many things to choose from to put in your quilt to personalise your version.
Small Victories quilt pattern designed by Margaret Sampson George is a fun play with fabrics and medals presented to people as awards for almost anything over many many years. If you google anything as far as these subjects are concerned, you will find so many things to choose from to put in your quilt to personalise your version.
This sweet tiny bag is all put together by hand and is such fun to make, you will want to do more. Made from little scraps of soft fabrics, voile scraps are ideal dor this projects, but Liberty lovers could use their Liberty scraps
Casablanca quilt pattern from Margaret Sampson George This is the digital version and you need to have your printer set at 100% before you print it out
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, fruit, flowers, baskets, crowns and hares. This was the raffle quilt 'Out of the Blue' which raised money for Beyond Blue. You can purchase the pattern from Liz's Broderie etsy shop. We can't post photos of whole quilts so here are some snippets. I'll just let the pictures do the talking... It was an over-whelming experience to see these quilts en masse, it made me feel as though my own quilts are quite boring. Really makes you think about fabric and colours and how everything can be combined from repro to Kaffe Fassett to Aboriginal prints. Thanks to Linda and her helpers; and Margaret Sampson-George and her students for this wonderful opportunity. Wishing you a safe and peaceful Easter.
In Nantes, I love meeting quilters in their "house" and admiring the quilts from their books. Brigitte Giblin and Margaret Sampson...
The making of this large quilt will take you on a wonderful journey of fabrics old and new and imagination using them The story of it is included in all the pattern notes and detail as only Margaret Sampson George can write in her own way Using lots of appliquéd shapes and just beautiful pieces of fabric from your treasures you will love this The background requires 5 1/2 meters of 150cm wide fabric And lots and lots of your favourite scraps
This sweet tiny bag is all put together by hand and is such fun to make, you will want to do more. Made from little scraps of soft fabrics, voile scraps are ideal dor this projects, but Liberty lovers could use their Liberty scraps
Margaret Sampson George Quilt Exhibition 2015 Raffle Quilt pattern. This quilt was designed by Margaret and stitched by hand by Margaret, Jean Stevenson and Elizabeth Wright and Trish Harper. The completed quilt was raffled and won by a Melbourne girl here in Australia, and raised money that was donated to 'beyondblue' our chosen charity. Here is your chance to purchase this much loved quilt that we handpieced and appliequed and hand quilted. The pattern includes all instructions and 4 x A3 size sheets of elements to complete your own, it is a paper pattern and is NOT available in digital form. All mail out of Australia is sent by airmail. The fabrics we used are all cotton and linen and various methods of appliqué are discussed within the pattern. The quilt is approx 2 metres square. Pattern only.
Margaret Sampson George has produced this wonderful pattern after visiting many cathedrals and places where the tiles on the floors are works of art and in an unusual approach kept to a specific colour palette, but of course this is not essential ! Tile Tripping can be done in many ways and the pattern will discuss this with you so you can make your choice. Main thing is have fun with this great offering from Marg. PLEASE READ BELOW There is separate listing for the pattern and templates together, and I do recommend with this design that you buy the templates too, the way they have been made just makes the process of making this quilt so easy !
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, fruit, flowers, baskets, crowns and hares. This was the raffle quilt 'Out of the Blue' which raised money for Beyond Blue. You can purchase the pattern from Liz's Broderie etsy shop. We can't post photos of whole quilts so here are some snippets. I'll just let the pictures do the talking... It was an over-whelming experience to see these quilts en masse, it made me feel as though my own quilts are quite boring. Really makes you think about fabric and colours and how everything can be combined from repro to Kaffe Fassett to Aboriginal prints. Thanks to Linda and her helpers; and Margaret Sampson-George and her students for this wonderful opportunity. Wishing you a safe and peaceful Easter.
The making of this large quilt will take you on a wonderful journey of fabrics old and new and imagination using them The story of it is included in all the pattern notes and detail as only Margaret Sampson George can write in her own way Using lots of appliquéd shapes and just beautiful pieces of fabric from your treasures you will love this The background requires 5 1/2 meters of 150cm wide fabric And lots and lots of your favourite scraps
Mrs Peach is a fun adventure with fabric to make, so many different choices can be made in constructing and sewing this fabulous scrappy quilt designed by Margaret Sampson George Acrylic templates are available to purchase separately for both sizes of this quilt And papers to use epp for the smaller of the two if you choose to do it that way Regular size blocks are 7.5 inches finished Large size blocks are 10 inches finished and easily handpieced without papers See the other listings for Mrs Peach for details Note this is a digital copy for you to download yourself at home There is also a hard copy paper version available and the templates and papers can be ordered also
The making of this large quilt will take you on a wonderful journey of fabrics old and new and imagination using them The story of it is included in all the pattern notes and detail as only Margaret Sampson George can write in her own way Using lots of appliquéd shapes and just beautiful pieces of fabric from your treasures you will love this The background requires 5 1/2 meters of 150cm wide fabric And lots and lots of your favourite scraps
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, fruit, flowers, baskets, crowns and hares. This was the raffle quilt 'Out of the Blue' which raised money for Beyond Blue. You can purchase the pattern from Liz's Broderie etsy shop. We can't post photos of whole quilts so here are some snippets. I'll just let the pictures do the talking... It was an over-whelming experience to see these quilts en masse, it made me feel as though my own quilts are quite boring. Really makes you think about fabric and colours and how everything can be combined from repro to Kaffe Fassett to Aboriginal prints. Thanks to Linda and her helpers; and Margaret Sampson-George and her students for this wonderful opportunity. Wishing you a safe and peaceful Easter.
On Saturday the 21st of July 2012, Margaret Sampson George spoke for the Quilt Study Group of NSW about Medallion or Frame Quilts. There were 68 in the audience in the Target Theatre at the Powerhouse Museum who came to hear Margaret Sampson George talk about her introduction to sewing and quilting, her love of medallion quilts, examine some quilts in detail and then to see examples of her work and her students’ work. Margaret discovered quilt making through her contact with the craft magazines that her US service wife friends read when living in Alice Springs. After making her first quilt, a log cabin, and then moving to Penrith, she and a friend enrolled in a patchwork class run by the Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW. The teacher, Audrey McMahon, allowed them to make 4 blocks, instead of a glasses case, and introduced them to Avril Colby’s “Patchwork” (her bible still) and the Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts magazines and the Quilter's Newsletter Magazines. A year later, she started teaching but saw there was a need for commercial suppliers of metal templates and quilting frames. She encouraged a local company to make these – thus beginning the successful start of JH Bonwick & Co’s quilting products manufacture. Now Margaret teaches whatever people want to do – “repeat blocks are not me”, she said. This is why medallion quilts have interested her – they are quirky, eccentric and traditionally are not made from a pattern but evolve. Her detailed examination of Joanna Southcott’s quilt (http://www.rammtimetrail.org.uk/#/period-17//object-1011) which was stitched in the centre with her own hair, best exemplifies what attracts Margaret’s interest. Margaret then discussed the historic reasons for the popularity of medallion quilts, the development of fabrics from the 1500s onwards (especially the quilt centres based on pastoral, floral, military or commemorative panels) and the importance of medallions for commemorating important dates in the makers’ lives (such as the New Zealand Martha Quilt – see the story of this wonderful quilt at - http://roxborogh.com/Marthasquiltimages/565K%20Martha%27s%20Quilt%201%201%2007.pdf). She finds it wonderful that there are no two identical frame quilts yet found and loves the odd ones – those that are not “oversized mathematical behemoths”. She doesn’t believe that there is a mathematical formula applicable but can see how the Fibonacci principles could help when designing the width of the frames. She now loves renovating her centres to take advantage of new, brighter fabrics. Margaret then took us through her quilts and those of her students. She started with the One Day Quilt she made in 1992. This is her 'Not the Levens Hall' quilt. Here are 2 centres inspired by the Jane Pizar Irish medallion quilt which is held at the Cheltenham Museum. The original can be viewed at http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_text=pizar&x=0&y=0 (Barbara Brackman has a more detailed examination of the quilt on her blog). Marg discovered the quilt when she saw an ad for the museum in an 'English Country Living' magazine. The first example was made by one of Marg's students and the second one is Marg's version. And this is the medallion quilt she made from available fabrics and sewed under the curfew during the coup when living in Fiji. Margaret then shared a number of quilts her students have made including some made by Gay Drummond and Maree Spencer, who were in the audience. Thank you for letting us see your wonderful quilt tops. And this is the last quilt Marg showed us. A group of her students made it for her. She never uses Visoflex, so for fun they used it when making the blocks.
Mrs Peach is a fun adventure with fabric to make, so many different choices can be made in constructing and sewing this fabulous scrappy quilt designed by Margaret Sampson George Acrylic templates are available to purchase separately for both sizes of this quilt And papers to use epp for the smaller of the two if you choose to do it that way Regular size blocks are 7.5 inches finished Large size blocks are 10 inches finished and easily handpieced without papers See the other listings for Mrs Peach for details Note this is a digital copy for you to download yourself at home There is also a hard copy paper version available and the templates and papers can be ordered also
Gentlewoman’s Sampler is just as the name says, it’s a lot of bits and pieces, some treasures that may be away in a safe place or a draw, pieces of embroidery that you’ve forgotten you’ve done or you haven’t finished maybe Margaret Sampson George has created this lovely piece for all of those reasons and added to the pattern blocks of fabrics and some appliqué to make the eyes find just something else to love Combination of piecing and appliqué and some embroidery
Small Victories quilt pattern designed by Margaret Sampson George is a fun play with fabrics and medals presented to people as awards for almost anything over many many years. If you google anything as far as these subjects are concerned, you will find so many things to choose from to put in your quilt to personalise your version.
Vandaag was heel speciaal. Vroeg in de morgen sprong ik in de auto, op weg naar Petra Prins in Zutphen, om, samen met gezellige mede-cursisten, een workshop te volgen van, Margaret Sampson-George. (de dame rechts) Een geweldige workshop bleek het te zijn. Een workshop waar je leert om heel anders naar stoffen te kijken,... een workshop gegeven door een vrouw, zo vol passie, en humor, zo kundig, zo geduldig, en ook heel lief. Een dag die omvloog. Een dag, waar ik nog helemaal vol van zit. Een dag waar ik zo veel gezien heb, dat ik alleen maar kan zeggen, uit de grond van mijn hart, als je in de gelegenheid bent, om een workshop van Margaret te volgen, dan zou ik zeggen DOEN. Ik hoop dat ze nog heel vaak naar Nederland komt. En nu ga ik GENIETEN, van haar boek. Dankjewel Margaret en Petra voor deze TOP-dag. Zo, dat moest ik echt even kwijt,... ;o) Fijne avond allemaal, en
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, fruit, flowers, baskets, crowns and hares. This was the raffle quilt 'Out of the Blue' which raised money for Beyond Blue. You can purchase the pattern from Liz's Broderie etsy shop. We can't post photos of whole quilts so here are some snippets. I'll just let the pictures do the talking... It was an over-whelming experience to see these quilts en masse, it made me feel as though my own quilts are quite boring. Really makes you think about fabric and colours and how everything can be combined from repro to Kaffe Fassett to Aboriginal prints. Thanks to Linda and her helpers; and Margaret Sampson-George and her students for this wonderful opportunity. Wishing you a safe and peaceful Easter.
Margaret Sampson George's book 'Take an Element' was released in 2016 and a pattern for a lovely work bag using some of her well known 'elements' is now released, 'The Elements Bag' ! The pattern contains a sheet of favourite designs, a rabbit, a deer, hexagons and diamonds also form some favourite pieced shapes, a star and a hexagon flower, that you can applique to your chosen background fabric of the main body of the bag and add some broderie perse. This is a pattern only and all requirements of fabric and papers needed to complete the design need to be purchased separately. Full instructions for making up the bag are also provided. You could also add some of your own shapes, just have some fun !
This is just a black and white PDF pattern, the beginning of a quilt top that you can have fun with and design yourself with Margaret Sampson George Free Wheeling is a number of blocks that will be supplied every 3 to 4 weeks for you to make a quilt top from of maybe the answer to a border or corner square on something that you already have and wondering what to do next This first package available for you to download straight away, once payment has been made, on your own printer which needs to be set on actual size and will print on A4 paper The first pack contains 5 x 8inch blocks, some of Marg’s favourite corner blocks or as I did used one as a border on my ‘Not the Levenshall’ quilt and I love how it works with the secondary pattern it creates This pattern is number one in the series of Free Wheeling blocks Other size blocks and a centre idea will follow every 3 to 4 weeks
Margaret Sampson George Quilt Exhibition 2015 Raffle Quilt pattern. This quilt was designed by Margaret and stitched by hand by Margaret, Jean Stevenson and Elizabeth Wright and Trish Harper. The completed quilt was raffled and won by a Melbourne girl here in Australia, and raised money that was donated to 'beyondblue' our chosen charity. Here is your chance to purchase this much loved quilt that we handpieced and appliequed and hand quilted. The pattern includes all instructions and 4 x A3 size sheets of elements to complete your own, it is a paper pattern and is NOT available in digital form. All mail out of Australia is sent by airmail. The fabrics we used are all cotton and linen and various methods of appliqué are discussed within the pattern. The quilt is approx 2 metres square. Pattern only.
Syncopation is another newly released pattern in April 2021 by Margaret Sampson George Syncopation is Margs version of an old antique pattern and is featured in her book Take an Element published by Quitmania It is a wonderful medallion style quilt featuring paper piecing and appliqué and a wonderful mix of colour and elements
On Saturday the 21st of July 2012, Margaret Sampson George spoke for the Quilt Study Group of NSW about Medallion or Frame Quilts. There were 68 in the audience in the Target Theatre at the Powerhouse Museum who came to hear Margaret Sampson George talk about her introduction to sewing and quilting, her love of medallion quilts, examine some quilts in detail and then to see examples of her work and her students’ work. Margaret discovered quilt making through her contact with the craft magazines that her US service wife friends read when living in Alice Springs. After making her first quilt, a log cabin, and then moving to Penrith, she and a friend enrolled in a patchwork class run by the Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW. The teacher, Audrey McMahon, allowed them to make 4 blocks, instead of a glasses case, and introduced them to Avril Colby’s “Patchwork” (her bible still) and the Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts magazines and the Quilter's Newsletter Magazines. A year later, she started teaching but saw there was a need for commercial suppliers of metal templates and quilting frames. She encouraged a local company to make these – thus beginning the successful start of JH Bonwick & Co’s quilting products manufacture. Now Margaret teaches whatever people want to do – “repeat blocks are not me”, she said. This is why medallion quilts have interested her – they are quirky, eccentric and traditionally are not made from a pattern but evolve. Her detailed examination of Joanna Southcott’s quilt (http://www.rammtimetrail.org.uk/#/period-17//object-1011) which was stitched in the centre with her own hair, best exemplifies what attracts Margaret’s interest. Margaret then discussed the historic reasons for the popularity of medallion quilts, the development of fabrics from the 1500s onwards (especially the quilt centres based on pastoral, floral, military or commemorative panels) and the importance of medallions for commemorating important dates in the makers’ lives (such as the New Zealand Martha Quilt – see the story of this wonderful quilt at - http://roxborogh.com/Marthasquiltimages/565K%20Martha%27s%20Quilt%201%201%2007.pdf). She finds it wonderful that there are no two identical frame quilts yet found and loves the odd ones – those that are not “oversized mathematical behemoths”. She doesn’t believe that there is a mathematical formula applicable but can see how the Fibonacci principles could help when designing the width of the frames. She now loves renovating her centres to take advantage of new, brighter fabrics. Margaret then took us through her quilts and those of her students. She started with the One Day Quilt she made in 1992. This is her 'Not the Levens Hall' quilt. Here are 2 centres inspired by the Jane Pizar Irish medallion quilt which is held at the Cheltenham Museum. The original can be viewed at http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_text=pizar&x=0&y=0 (Barbara Brackman has a more detailed examination of the quilt on her blog). Marg discovered the quilt when she saw an ad for the museum in an 'English Country Living' magazine. The first example was made by one of Marg's students and the second one is Marg's version. And this is the medallion quilt she made from available fabrics and sewed under the curfew during the coup when living in Fiji. Margaret then shared a number of quilts her students have made including some made by Gay Drummond and Maree Spencer, who were in the audience. Thank you for letting us see your wonderful quilt tops. And this is the last quilt Marg showed us. A group of her students made it for her. She never uses Visoflex, so for fun they used it when making the blocks.
In Nantes, I love meeting quilters in their "house" and admiring the quilts from their books. Brigitte Giblin and Margaret Sampson...
Afgelopen zondag hadden wij een hele bijzondere bee met de collega's uit Zutphen en die van Amsterdam, in Amsterdam. Er was geen verkeer, zo vroeg op de ochtend, de trein reed op tijd, hadden we zelfs een trein eerder, en om nu ver voor half 11 de winkel in te stappen...... Dan maar aan de koffie! Heerlijk! En voor wie het weten, de winkel is niet zo ver van het CS Amsterdam. De Dodecagon (do-dec-agon) hangt al in het raam...... Snel naar binnen, naar de collega's naar de Dodecagon, mallen, i spies, aai bare lapjes, slagroomtaart, kopjes koffie/thee, heerlijk soepje. Dan kiezen, kiezen en nog meer kiezen. Is Gerda al klaar terwijl ik nog aan het knippen ben! Het is toch wonderlijk hoe zij met een wieltje, plakstift, aan het werk is, alles in een hand, hup, hup, en klaar! Is er zelfs tijd voor een show en tell van antieke quilts. Waar de hoogte in de winkel zich prima voor leent. En zorgt voor de nodige hilariteit! Sta ik zelf met mijn neus, letterlijk, bovenop de quilt. Wat een idiote foto! Maar als je er dan met je neus bovenop staat, zie je dit! Broderie Perse uit begin 1800, wonderschoon. Aanvankelijk dacht ik dat het een border was, zo kundig is dit gemaakt. Dit is broderie perse 8.0, zo knap. Er is meer moois in de winkel, zoals deze prachtige sterren uit het boek van Willyne Hammerstein. Dan terug naar onze eigen Dodecagons! Wordt er geleerd, gekeken, bestudeerd en gefilmd. En is er nog een klaar! Ook ik kies repro's, maar klaar? Nee, echt niet! Maar niet getreurd, Het begin is er. Juud remember; Better finished than perfect
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, fruit, flowers, baskets, crowns and hares. This was the raffle quilt 'Out of the Blue' which raised money for Beyond Blue. You can purchase the pattern from Liz's Broderie etsy shop. We can't post photos of whole quilts so here are some snippets. I'll just let the pictures do the talking... It was an over-whelming experience to see these quilts en masse, it made me feel as though my own quilts are quite boring. Really makes you think about fabric and colours and how everything can be combined from repro to Kaffe Fassett to Aboriginal prints. Thanks to Linda and her helpers; and Margaret Sampson-George and her students for this wonderful opportunity. Wishing you a safe and peaceful Easter.
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, f...
This year QITB featured the quilts of Margaret Sampson-George and her talented students. The Barn was overflowing with hexies, birds, f...
Gentlewoman’s Sampler is just as the name says, it’s a lot of bits and pieces, some treasures that may be away in a safe place or a draw, pieces of embroidery that you’ve forgotten you’ve done or you haven’t finished maybe Margaret Sampson George has created this lovely piece for all of those reasons and added to the pattern blocks of fabrics and some appliqué to make the eyes find just something else to love Combination of piecing and appliqué and some embroidery
The See-Saw pattern from Margaret Sampson George This is the digital version of the pattern and your printer must be set at 100% before printing, please check
A quilt called Grace from Margaret Sampson George named after her mother Using diamonds with parallelograms as the joiners is a great scrappy quilt with some order within Marg is using epp to make hers
