Farmers wife quilt

It has been a long, long wait from the start of my Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt, and you have stuck with me the whole way. Now, after we...

Hey everybody!! I finished the Farmer's Wife Quilt this past week! Here it is in all its giganticness in my driveway, being held up in -20 degree weather by my husband (6 feet, 1 inch tall) and my 19 year old son (6 feet, 3 inches tall) and standing on blocks of wood. This quilt was conceived in 2011 while on a trip with my sister to Seattle. We stopped in a quilt shop, we stopped in a book shop and I found a jelly roll of Kansas Troubles Perennials and a copy of The Farmer's Wife Sampler…

My new pattern class called The Farmer's Wife Quilt Revival is a 12 month journey based on The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt book. You can join anytime...beginning with Class One and each class is $8.50/month Each class offers cutting and piecing instructions for roughly 10 Farmer's Wife blocks each month using MODERN quilting methods. Yes...MODERN! 12 months offering 111 quilt blocks and includes putting it all together. No hand piecing and very very few templates used. Here's a snapshot…

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…

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...

I have to admit this is turning out to be even more awesome than I thought it would be! The Farmer's Wife 1930's Quilt-along started on the last day of September and we're now two weeks and 5 blocks in. Its been so much fun! Week One had the sweetest little blocks. All three were

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 …

The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilts are iconic bucket list quilts in the quilting community. They’re a great introduction to traditional...

If you've been following along on Instagram, you know I recently pulled all my Farmer's Wife blocks out again. I have 29 left to go to make the twin size version. Yay! (In case you aren't familiar with Farmer's Wife,...

Thank you for purchasing The Farmer's Wife Homestead Medallion Quilt, by Laurie Aaron Hird. Please click here to download the PATCHWORK templates to complete this quilt. Or, click here to download the FOUNDATION PAPER-PIECING templates.

The biggest quilting event of the year is just about to kick off! And I am super pumped that I have been invited to be one of the official guest bloggers for this awesome quilt-along! This is the book that we will be quilting along to: The Farmer's Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird. This quilt along is being hosted by Gnome Angel in conjunction with Fat Quarter Shop and From Marti Michell. A super-impressive list of bloggers have been asked to join the party, you can see them all…

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…

It is over a month since I posted any Farmer’s Wife 1920s blocks so, without further ado here are another three blocks. Block 48 – Homeward Bound Block 48 - Homeward Bound This was a really simple block so I patched it rather than paper-pieced it. It turned out just fine. Block 49 – Honeycomb Block 49 - Honeycomb If I was English paper-piecing this I would combine all the yellow pieces into two diamonds (centre two) and four half-diamonds (side units). I cannot, for the life of me see why…

Today marks the final post featuring my marathon project called, The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt! I'm so in love with this quilt and happier with the final product than I've probably ever been with any quilt that I've made in the 30+ years that I've been quilting. Cindy Weins (Live a Colorful Life) and I began making the Farmer's Wife blocks together and featuring them on our blogs almost every Friday beginning in June 2011. If you missed it, you can follow along with our comments on the…

Join The Farmer's Wife 1930's Sample Quilt Sew-along and learn to make the blocks in Laurie Aaron Hird's book.

I have so far completed around 77 blocks of the Farmer’s wife quilt sampler. More information about how I am making this quilt. View all the blocks I have done so far. Rainbow Flowers Ribbons Roseb…

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt and the books that go with it provide an exciting glimpse into farm life during the 1920s!

I have always loved the Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilts that I have seen, however I enjoy making simple quilts. The Farmer's Wife quilt ...

Starting The Farmers Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird.

Finished at last, finished at last, thank you thank you, it's finished at last! I began sewing the Farmer's Wife quilt in April of 2011. One of my earliest posts, dated December 1, 2011, was about this quilt. Slowly and steadily, over more than three years, I sewed all 111 of the 6.5" blocks that make up this quilt. More than a dozen, I sewed twice, because the templates that come with the book didn't make the blocks finish at the correct size. Thanks to Karen of High Country Quilts, and…