Showing posts with label the farmer's wife quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the farmer's wife quilt. Show all posts

Oct 24, 2012

The Farmer's Wife quilt

After almost two years, I finished "The Farmer's Wife" quilt!
I wrote about it here and highlighted each of the blocks.
To see the quilt before it was machine quilted, go here and scroll down a little.
My friend did a beautiful job with the quilting!
I am going to add jumbo rick rack.


I wanted the rick rack to be next to the binding.


I had to cut the ricks off the racks so that I could attach the binding.


Here is my little pile of jumbo ricks.


Originally, I wanted to use a little black print for the binding.
I looked at a few quilting shops and couldn't find one that I liked.
I needed a color that matched the red border, the yellow jumbo rick rack, and the lavender back.  Finally, I settled on mint green.


I think the jumbo yellow rick rack looks really good with the 1930's Aunt Gracie prints that I used in the quilt.


It's easier to show you corners of the quilt...


.....because it's difficult to capture the entire quilt with my camera!


See what I mean?  I laid the quilt on the floor and stood on a chair.


This shot is a little better but not great.


I found this fabric on clearance, it is Sarah Jane's Children at Play, which is a favorite of mine.  


There is a lot of lavender in the blocks, so this fabric was perfect for the back.
"The Farmer's Wife" quilt was a labor of love.  I was going to give it away but I don't think anyone would appreciate it as much as me!


Thanks for sharing my journey with me :)

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Sep 5, 2012

Row Along and the Farmer's Wife Quilt

I am participating in the Bee in my Bonnet Row Along.  You can read about it here.  Anything Lori does is just too good to pass up!
She told us to choose 7 colors, about 9 prints in each color. I went to my stash and began pulling out colors and prints.  I made a discovery....I have so many polka dots!  I am going to make a conscious effort to choose more ginghams, plaids and little flowers. I have been caught up in the big, modern designs, and had forgotten about keeping my stash replenished with little prints.
These are the colors and prints I chose.


I am really excited with my choices :)

I cut out my squares as instructed, and Lori had the coolest method of sewing and cutting the squares.  You will have to take a look at how she did it.
Two squares out of each color, times two.


Here is my first row, I love the colors!!!
It's scrap happy :)


Over a year and a half ago, I began the Farmer's Wife Quilt Along. 
I showed you my blocks in a former post, here.
I finally finished sewing the sashing between the blocks.  I have never sewn blocks on point before, and had to redo quite a few of the yellow triangles.  I had cut off the seam allowances and it would have looked terrible so I bit my lip, ripped out the yellow triangles I had sewn, cut larger yellow rectangles, and had enough fabric for seam allowances.  I attached the border and now I just need to find some fabric for the back.


The border is red with what else, teeny little white polka dots! 
Remember that I said I have a lot of polka dots!!! 
I can hardly believe that the top is finished :)


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