The New Farmers Wife '30's Quilt-Along
#21
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Hartford, Mo
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This one is colorful and delightful...but you can use any fabric you choose to use. Its scrappy, so us who have done Laurie's quilt books before are buying fat quarters in solids and 1930 print fabrics...but you can use any dark, medium or light colors that you favor. Or choose as you go along. The pace is just two 6 inch blocks per week, so its very doable.
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I am in!! I am super excited to start this quilt along from the very beginning!!!! One of my besties is coming this week from Florida so the 3 of us are starting to cut fabric. Yay!!!
#23
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Central Jersey & Calabash,NC
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I am so happy to see all of you being so excited to come along on the ride..We will have lots of fun...H.
#24
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: western Pa
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Looking forward to another ride with yinz! I'm going to use my stash so this one will coordinate with the other two FWS quilts we did so it will be very scrappy. I promise not to whine about the y-seams--I'm just NOT doing them LOL! When I first started quilting one of the first quilts I did was a Tumbling Blocks--I swore I'd never do another y-seam after that.
#25
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Camarillo, CA
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I have my book, so am in on this quilt too.
Angelina - I have done the previous two Farmer's Wife quilts with this group. I usually piece my blocks. I am not fond of paper piecing, so usually use the templates and the blocks come out just fine.
Angelina - I have done the previous two Farmer's Wife quilts with this group. I usually piece my blocks. I am not fond of paper piecing, so usually use the templates and the blocks come out just fine.
#26
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lumby, British Columbia
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Well I am intrigued. Don't have a lot of reproduction fabrics, but I do have a lot of civil war. Think I'll order the book as well.
#27
No one has to feel like they have to use 1930s reproduction fabrics for this quilt. You can use any thing you want...batiks, civil war, or just any scraps you have on hand. I have decided to go with just a few coordinating fabrics this time. For the Farmers Wife Pony Club quilt I used all (or most all) Kansas Troubles fabrics.
#28
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Columbus, OH
Posts: 362
I just ordered the book and I look forward to the quilt along. I will try to keep up! 30's are my favorite fabrics and I have a bunch, but I will be looking for a few more on my quilt guilds annual bus trip. I'm trying to finish things this year, so this will be my only new project!
#29
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Florida
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I'm In too! The book just went on sale at Quilt and Sew Shop for $19.50. How could I resist, looking forward to tagging along with y'all.
#30
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Central Jersey & Calabash,NC
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Welcome aboard!!! Seeing new faces brings a smile to my face!!!
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