Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Way West: Blazing a Trail

Way West: Blazing a Trail by Barbara Schaffer

Barbara has finished her Westering Womne sampler!
She used traditional fabrics with the nontraditional set.

See more photos here:

I've been collecting pictures of innovative sets for samplers. Maybe one will inspire you to get these blocks on the road.

Whose? Set for 12 blocks: simple and balanced.

Cotton & Steel. Vice Versa, 2016 set for 16 Blocks.

Irelleb posted this Instagram picture of her
set of Elizabeth Dackson's Lucky Star BOM
12 Blocks

Flying Squares set for 13 blocks from

See a few more innovative sets at this post:
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2017/01/way-west-set-for-westering-women.html

7 comments:

Wendy Caton Reed said...

Kudos Barbara Schaffer! These are all great settings. Thanks for sharing.

Chantal said...

These quilts are all very beautiful and inspiring. I am at that stage; to settle on a layout so I appreciate this post. Thanks for sharing. ;^)

Danice G said...

Oh they are all so beautiful. I am almost finished with my Way West set, and will be posting asap :)

Barbara said...

Thanks, Barbara! I really enjoyed making your Way West set :)

RodFleck said...

Love seeing these. I have a movement set almost all pieced...and if I can get a bit of time at the machine this month, I should be able to post the top if nothing else. Thanks for sharing Barbara.

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Unknown said...

I was following the westerning woman block of the month and then we moved. In the move I lost several of the patterns. Is there a place I can get the directions all of the blocks in this quilt? Thanks.