Farmers Wife week 4 Blocks 7&8 photos
08-30-2010, 08:28 PM
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FW block is gorgeous. I looked it up earlier and thought it was interesting in its colorless BlockBase format. Love your colors.
Not Aunt Grace. I just took my AG prints out today. So, it's one of the seven other fabrics I've used. I'll add them to my siggie (as I remember them) because I keep forgetting them! Definitely Toy Box II and... something or other.
Edit: Cheated and looked where I wrote them in the book. The other fabric is Canning Day. It's my fave Connecting Threads fabric.
Not Aunt Grace. I just took my AG prints out today. So, it's one of the seven other fabrics I've used. I'll add them to my siggie (as I remember them) because I keep forgetting them! Definitely Toy Box II and... something or other.
Edit: Cheated and looked where I wrote them in the book. The other fabric is Canning Day. It's my fave Connecting Threads fabric.
08-30-2010, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Rosyhf
I finished the Farmer's Wife block. Isn't she pretty? and the block does look like a woman doesn't it. It was hair of dog to put it together tho. More than half of it was set in.
This is how it looks RWQuilts. The entire block was templates. I don't make the plastic templates or the freezer paper either, well sometimes I do.
I just printed out the pattern, cut out the templates, pinned with two pins to the fabric and layed my ruler on the 1/4 inch line and cut wherever there was a straight line. On the curved pieces I cut with sissors.
I can't see going through all the work of plastic templates if I am only going to it once or twice. I did sew all the tempates together to the back of the pattern page and filed it.
This is how it looks RWQuilts. The entire block was templates. I don't make the plastic templates or the freezer paper either, well sometimes I do.
I just printed out the pattern, cut out the templates, pinned with two pins to the fabric and layed my ruler on the 1/4 inch line and cut wherever there was a straight line. On the curved pieces I cut with sissors.
I can't see going through all the work of plastic templates if I am only going to it once or twice. I did sew all the tempates together to the back of the pattern page and filed it.
08-31-2010, 05:54 AM
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[quote=sew cornie]......BTW, I began quilting 20 years ago, so I've had lots of practice. My goal is to make this my most accurate quilt yet and potentially show-worthy.
Potentially show-worthy was my goal with this too! And then we went to the MN State Fair last Saturday and I saw the quilts there.....oh dear, show-worthy may be a goal set too high! The winning State Fair quilts were absolutely gorgeous. Many of them were so much applique! Of course there are various categories of quilt submissions but those applique ones were the most beautiful. Lots and lots of work went into them!
Potentially show-worthy was my goal with this too! And then we went to the MN State Fair last Saturday and I saw the quilts there.....oh dear, show-worthy may be a goal set too high! The winning State Fair quilts were absolutely gorgeous. Many of them were so much applique! Of course there are various categories of quilt submissions but those applique ones were the most beautiful. Lots and lots of work went into them!
08-31-2010, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by sew cornie
That's a really pretty block. What size is it? I can't imagine doing that one in 6" size and you're right, it is easy to see why it wasn't included. lol. Nice work!
08-31-2010, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Rosyhf
Originally Posted by sew cornie
That's a really pretty block. What size is it? I can't imagine doing that one in 6" size and you're right, it is easy to see why it wasn't included. lol. Nice work!
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