Latest Farmer's Wife Sampler block

Look at all the foundation pieces!! It's a puzzle to put together.

This is Darting Birds...it's a lot of triangles, but with foundation piecing, they are always perfect ( or almost, in my case.)

Back to work on the Farmer's Wife Sampler blocks!!!

Finally, I'm getting time to work on The Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt blocks...it has been awhile since I made any blocks. Today, I printed some of the foundation directions on muslin. I like sewing on it instead of paper...I don't have to rip paper out. I iron the muslin on freezer paper and it goes through my printer. I tested the first one I did to be sure the ink would not run. Time to get sewing. Yay!!!

More Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt blocks made

Contary Wife

Cut Glass Dish

At last...I have gotten time to make two more of the Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt blocks. Cut Glass Dishes has lots of triangles!!  I wonder why the book didn't have some instructions to aid in constructing the blocks...like use half square triangles, etc.

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt Block

Birds in the Air is my latest block. I had to redo one of the sections.

I was ready to sew the sections together and saw I had 2 of the

triangles using the wrong side of the fabric...DUH!!

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt block

Today was the annual "Corn Day" at our house!! It is usually 3 days because we do 30-35 dozen ears of corn....Yep!! we're hogs!!!  This year we decided to do only 12 dozen as we have eaten less at home and still have some in the freezer. I did get to make one square...it's callled Cup & Saucer. If you want to see all the others, checkout the slideshow at the bottom of my blog.

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt Blocks

 Checkerboard and Churn Dash are my two latest blocks.

I think they turned out nicely.

FWS

I received my Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt CD ( companion CD for EQ6) today. It got here in just a couple of days. I am excited...I think it will be easier to use than the templates were. It was not as easy to install as the directions said it would be...as a matter of fact, I could not do it the way they said. I had to go in and link it to EQ.
I am still battling cold and chest congestion...went back to the doctor today and got antibiotics this time. I hope I'll be in the sewing mode again soon!!

Learned Something New!!!

This afternoon I learned there is a CD for Electric Quilt 6 for the blocks in The Farmer's Wife Sampler.
I ordered it immediately. Some of my blocks were coming out 7 inches instead of 6 1/2  inches. There is also a Farmer's Wife Sampler group on Yahoo! ... I also joined it. There is also a blog  The Farmer's Wife Quilt by the book's author. (www.thefarmerswifequilt@blogspot.com

Another 2 Blocks Completed

This is Buckwheat and Birds at the Crossroads. As you can see Buckwheat is a half inch larger than it should be...so it looks like I have some ripping and adjusting to do. I have not seen the Buckwheat block before, but I like it. I think at some time in the future I will use Electric Quilt and enlarge it .
     Still battling chest congestion but went to church anyway...it's just not Sunday without church. We had Children's Day...everything was done by the children under 6th grade age. What a lot of talent! I'm thankful to their leaders.

Two More Blocks

Broken Dishes and Broken Sugar Bowl are the next two additions to my completed Farmer's Wife Sampler blocks. I hope I get more done quicker than I did these two....I have fought a cold all week...and boy, did it get me dragging!! I have done some hand quilting this week...it has been a while since I picked up that PhD (Project Half Done) ! I hope that I finish it in the next two weeks...I'm not a fast hand quilter.

Farmer's Wife Sampler

I have been cutting out more blocks...I wanted to have 15 ready to sew. One block has 38 pieces...that's a lot for a 6 1/2" block!! I don't know how people use to cut out everything with templates...I'm so thankful for rotary cutters & mats.  I can see I need to speed up if I plan on completing it. I need to plan the class project for the next sewing class that I teach at the local Community College. The new class starts mid August.  I plan on taking the one for this session to the long armer soon.  It will be the first time I had one done by someone else. I have told my husband that by next spring I plan on having a midarm...I just have to find room for it!!!

Problems

I have sewed this section 3 times. It does not want to turn out correctly. The pieces match the templates. Time to do a little rethinking here.... I'll show the results when I get it done correctly. I did spend some enjoyable minutes looking at the patterns I bought Wednesday...and picking out some fabric for one. It says it is very easy. Let's hope so.

Finally had time to complete 2 more of the Farmer's Wife sampler blocks. Pictured is Basket and Basketweave..

This is some of the fabrics I will be using from my
 Stash for the blocks.

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

I printed the templates. I do not understand why only one template per page. I have completed the first two blocks.

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

Today, I am beginning a new project....The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt. It consists of 110 (6 inch) blocks. In 1922,The Farmer's Wife magazine held a contest asking, "Do You Want Your Daughter To Marry A Farmer?" This book contains 68 winning letters. It is enjoyable reading.

I have not set a deadline for myself. I will be using my stash to make the blocks.