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

The quilt is finally being used! It has taken over 2 years to complete all the blocks in the book and it feels like an achievement for sure. This is the largest and most complex quilt I’ve ev…

This Quilt-Along is taking the blogging community by storm. Hosted by Amanda from MsMcporkchops and Angela from Fussy Cut it’s week one and there are first blocks popping up everywhere …

Quilt Kisses: Modernizing the Farmer's Wife Quilt: Introduction

My Grandma's 90th Birthday is November 1st, and I wanted to do something really special for her. She has been one of my favorite people for a long time -- she used to fix the holes in my worn out teddy bear, over and over. She always choose the Old Maid card that my brother and I wanted to get rid of. And I still wish that she could make me a peanut butter sandwich every night for a bedtime snack, like she used to do when I slept over at her house. She makes the best peanut butter…

The following is a list of all the block tutorials for Farmer’s Wife 1930’s Sampler Quilt Sew-along. Click a link to see the tutorial. Tutorials are listed in numerical and alphabetical order as per the book: Addie – Click here for tutorial Aimee – Click here for tutorial Alice – Click here for tutorial Ann...

Farmer's wife style sampler quilt

I seriously considered ditching the templates and working out the math for each block as I go along. I love math, and I know that my work is more accurate when I rotary cut my pieces. But I wanted to keep in the spirit of this project, so I'm using the templates from the book. I hand pieced and quilted my first quilt using templates, so this process isn't new to me. This time around, I am using my rotary cutter to cut around the templates and I'm machine piecing my blocks. I thought I'd…

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...