Originally Posted by Quilting Nonnie

The book is The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird. So far as a group we've found the best price either on Amazon or Connecting Threads has it at 40% off right now.

We started on August 4th. We are doing the blocks in numerical order: 2 blocks per week.

The book comes with a CD that has the templates, but they only put one template per each print page. After you have bought the book, you can go to the Farmer's Wife Sample Quilt site and there you can download the templates. In this version, there are multiple templates on each page.

There is a large message thread that started when AkAngel asked for people who were interested in doing the FW quilt. You can find all the threads for the quilt in the BOM/BOW Topic when you click on Home.

The basics are that you have to buy a book, or borrow from the library. We could get into trouble as a board if we were sharing/using/copying patterns when we haven't bought a book.

Laurie Hird, the author, joined our board just to be able to cheer us on and answer questions.

AkAngel (Muriel) posts the threads for the blocks on Wednesday. There will be a FW Discussion page for the blocks each week, plus a picture page. You can discuss specifics about the blocks in their appropriate discussions. For general discussion, the main thread, which is titled: I Want to Know if Anyone is Interested... (link below)

At the same time, Honchey posts the rotary cutting directions for each block.

There are also ways to do the blocks by paper piecing either using Quilt Assistant, Block Base or EQ. You definitely need to read the threads to find out more about making blocks.

At this point, the group has "worked" through blocks 1-8. Not everyone is going at the same pace. When someone gets done with a block, they post it in the appropriate space for the block number.

There is an "official" slackers club. People are vying for being Queen, etc. But we're always drawn away to rest or go putter around aimlessly! ;-) Just to give you an idea, I've down the first two blocks and have great plans of getting some done tomorrow.

There are also people who have just gotten their books and are starting.

This is just a nutshell. The main discussion is the best place to start and read while you wait for your book to arrive.

Here are the links:

General Discussion:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-52690-1.htm

Discussion Block 1&2:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57750-1.htm

Rotary Cutting Directions 1&2:
dunno where! :oops:

Pictures Block 1&2:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57749-1.htm

Discussion Block 3&4
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-58839-1.htm

Pictures Block 3&4:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-58840-1.htm

Rotary Cutting Directions 3&4:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-58814-1.htm

Discussion Block 5&6:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-60014-1.htm

Pictures Block 5&6:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-60015-1.htm

Rotary Cutting Directions 5&6:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-59950-1.htm

Discussion Blocks 7&8:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-61214-1.htm

Pictures Blocks 7&8:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-61215-1.htm

Rotary Cutting Directions 7&8:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-61190-1.htm

Hope this helps!

Terri

Originally Posted by AkAngel

Sorry all I've not been online the last couple days, will be on a bit more tomorrow, haven't even looked at blocks 7&8 so I am definately sitting on my throne this week and not budging an inch and considering I have 3 workshops coming up in less than 2 weeks that I still need to get all the pre-cutting stuff done for I probably won't be looking at them til after the mid of Sept.
geez, barely started and already behind.
Muriel

Originally Posted by auntjo

Got my book yesterday finally. Now have all my scrap bags & bins on my cutting table. Here's my #'s 1 & 2 - now to go find something for 3 & 4...