Farmer's Wife - Week 18

This week our blocks all use foundation paper piecing, but also with a few simple cut pieces, a few HST's, and an hourglass thrown in just to keep things interesting.

• Block 8 - Bouquet
• Block 23 - Country Farm
• Block 24 - Country Path

Farmer's Wife - Week 16

We are back from vacation, all caught up, and ready for another week of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-Along!  This week we'll be making three more blocks, but these all have something in common.  Each block includes Flying Geese Rectangle blocks.  I posted information on the Flying Geese block here, so read up on that before getting started.

Our blocks this week are:

• Block 15 - Buzzard's Roost
• Block 31 - Evening Star
• Block 87 - Star Gardener

Farmer's Wife - Week 15 - Our Blocks

For Week 15 of the Farmer's Wife Quilt-Along, we completed three more blocks.  Block 18, Century of Progress, was by far the most difficult.  All of the points that needed to be matched up were challenging.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 18 - Century of Progress

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 18 - Century of Progress

Farmer's Wife - Week 13 - Our Blocks

We have been on a short break and getting caught up!  Here are our results from Week 13 of the Farmer's Wife Quilt-Along.

Block 19, Checkerboard, wasn't too hard, but lining up those corners was the most tedious part; looks like we did a good job there.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 19 - Checkerboard

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 19 - Checkerboard

Farmer's Wife - Week 15

Our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along continues with three new blocks that will use a variety of techniques and are of varying degrees of difficulty.

• Block 18 - Century of Progress
• Block 46 - Hill & Valley
• Block 109 - Windows

Farmer's Wife - Week 12 - Our Blocks

We've finished our blocks for Week 12 of the Farmer's Wife Quilt-along, and they look great!  I so enjoyed doing the applique on the handle of Basket Weave, I think that I may have to dig into some of my books on applique and do some dabbling.

Here are our Block 3, Basket, blocks.

Beth's Farmer's Wife Block 3 - Basket

MJ's Farmer's Wife Block 3 - Basket

Farmer's Wife - Week 13

Our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along continues with three new blocks for our lucky 13th week.  This week we'll work on:

• Block 7 - Birds in the Air
• Block 13 - Buckwheat (lucky 13)
• Block 19 - Checkboard

Continue reading for instructions.

Farmer's Wife - Week 11 - Our Blocks

Our blocks for week 11 of the Farmer's Wife Quilt-along present very nicely!

Beth enjoyed making Block 9, Box, because she got to use a larger-scale print that is often too fussy for the more complicated blocks.

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 9 - Box

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 9 - Box

Farmer's Wife - Week 12

For week 12 of the Farmer's Wife Quilt-along, we are using a variety of techniques, including one we haven't used on a previous block, appliqúe. The blocks for this week are:

• Block 3 - Basket
• Block 14 - Butterfly at the Crossroads
• Block 63 - Ozark Maple Leaf

Continue reading for instructions.

Farmer's Wife - Week 10 - Our Blocks

Week 10 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along included three blocks that were all assembled using foundation paper pieceing.

Block 94 - Tall Pine Tree - presented a challenge in getting the color placement and block orientation just right.  See my post about how many ways you can mess this one up!  I think Beth did a fantastic job with her fabric/color choices.

Beth's Farmer's Wife Block 94 - Tall Pine Tree

MJ's Farmer's Wife Block 94 - Tall Pine Tree

Farmer's Wife - Week 11

We are on to week 11 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt Along and we'll be working on three more blocks, one foundation paper pieced and the other pieced using more of our favorite half-square triangles.

• Block 9 - Box
• Block 12 - Broken Sugar Bowl
• Block 104 - Wild Geese

Continue reading for this week's instructions.

Farmer's Wife - Week 9 - Our Blocks

Finishing week 9 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along, we are, essentially, 20% of the way to completing all 111 blocks.  Very exciting!

This week we took on three more blocks using a variety of techniques.

Block 29, Economy, was foundation paper pieced and a very clean looking block.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 29 - Economy

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 29 - Economy

Farmer's Wife - Week 8 - Our Blocks

We were falling behind, so this week included two blocks, Silver Lane (Block 79) and Waste Not (Block 97).  We have now finished 19 blocks!

Block 97 - Waste Not

Here is the simpler of the two blocks for this week.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 97 - Waste Not

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 97 - Waste Not

Farmer's Wife - Week 10

For week 10 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along, all three blocks use foundation paper piecing. The blocks are:

• Block 58, Mother's Dream
• Block 75, Rosebud
• Block 94, Tall Pine Tree

These three are of equal difficulty, each broken into 3 or 4 sections.

Farmer's Wife - Week 7 - Our Blocks

Week 7 was all foundation paper piecing.  Our blocks turned out beautiful!  Here is Block 5, Batwing.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 5 - Batwing

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 5 - Batwing

Farmer's Wife - Week 6 - Our Blocks

Three more blocks to share!  Here are our Farmer's Daughter blocks (Block 32) from week 6 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along.

MJ's Farmer's Wife - Block 32 - Farmer's Daughter

Beth's Farmer's Wife - Block 32 - Farmer's Daughter

Farmer's Wife - Week 9

For week 9 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt-along, I'm going back to three blocks.  They are:

• Block 107, Windblown
• Block 92, Streak of Lightning
• Block 29, Economy

I would classify Windblown as difficult, but only because there are so many pieces. Economy and Streak of Lightning are straight-forward.

Let's go...

Farmer's Wife - Week 8

We are falling behind!  But we will catch up, and to help us along I'm only posting instructions for two blocks this week.  One is pretty hard and the other is easy.  This week we'll be making:

• Block 79, Silver Lane (pretty complicated)
• Block 97, Waste Not

Let's get started...

Farmer's Wife - Week 7

Well, I'm behind on Week 6, but don't want to hold up anyone else!  So, here is the information for Week 7.  We'll be doing all foundation paper piecing this week and they are all different levels of difficulty.  The blocks for this week are:

• Block 5, Bat Wing
• Block 49, Honeycomb
• Block 83, Spider Web

Farmer's Wife - Week 6

Week 6 of our Farmer's Wife Quilt Along introduces three more blocks that involve a small amount of foundation paper piecing and the rest efficient standard piecing.  This week's blocks are:

• Block 67, Pine Tree
• Block 32, Farmer's Daughter
• Block 61, Northern Lights