Farmers wife quilt

The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilts are iconic bucket list quilts in the quilting community. They’re a great introduction to traditional blocks and sampler quilts and they’re the quilts that got me hooked on samplers. There’s 2 Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt Books: This is referred to as the 1920’s Farmer’s Wife Quilt and it is the...

Here are my tips for planning for the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sew Along. I'd love to hear your tips!

It has been a long, long wait from the start of my Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt, and you have stuck with me the whole way. Now, after weeks and weeks of nothing but individual blocks, I'm so excited (so, so excited) to show you the finished quilt top (minus the borders). Please excuse all the pictures. There are alot of them! My design wall (aka - a plastic picnic tablecloth) worked great and kept the un-sewn blocks from being tramped on through this process. I set the blocks on…

In January 2011, a blog named Fussy Cut , was doing a quilt along based on the book, The Farmer's Wife. The goal was to complete two blocks...

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My new pattern class called The Farmer's Wife Quilt Revival is a 12 month journey based on The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt book. You can join anytime...beginning with Class One and each class is $8.50/month Each class offers cutting and piecing instructions for roughly 10 Farmer's Wife blocks each month using MODERN quilting methods. Yes...MODERN! 12 months offering 111 quilt blocks and includes putting it all together. No hand piecing and very very few templates used. Here's a snapshot…

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This was an easy block, squares and half square triangles are a safe harbour. Railroad But I like it very much. It’s so inspiring to see what you can make out of two “simple” forms. Next up will be…

The biggest quilting event of the year is just about to kick off! And I am super pumped that I have been invited to be one of the official guest bloggers for this awesome quilt-along! This is the book that we will be quilting along to: The Farmer's Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird. This quilt along is being hosted by Gnome Angel in conjunction with Fat Quarter Shop and From Marti Michell. A super-impressive list of bloggers have been asked to join the party, you can see them all…

I have to admit this is turning out to be even more awesome than I thought it would be! The Farmer's Wife 1930's Quilt-along started on the last day of September and we're now two weeks and 5 blocks in. Its been so much fun! Week One had the sweetest little blocks. All three were