While I showed you the Woody Woodpecker yesterday, it was only one of my excitements for that day. Yesterday afternoon, I finished the last blocks I need to fill out my Farmer's Wife quilt. Trust me, that was huge!
This particular quilt was started in the fall of 2009, and a group of us worked on it together as a club. Since I was one of the leaders of the club, I had to make the blocks (assigned by me) each month. By the time we all agreed to end our endeavor, the few of us left (ask someone about that quilt and the patterns for the blocks; I bet the story you hear won't be a happy one) had made quite a few of the 111 blocks in the book. Many of them more than once! I would imagine some of those ladies were able to complete the size quilt they determined they wanted to make.
Not me. I had made 110 of the 111 blocks for which there were patterns (one never would go together correctly for me, "Night and Day"), but I had decided I wanted to make this a king-size quilt. That meant I needed 145 blocks. There was no way I was going to make more of the blocks from the Farmer's Wife book, so I designed some of my own, used a few that didn't make it into my "Daisy Makes Do" wall hanging, and turned to Judy Hopkins book for the remainder.
Here they are:
Here's a test.
- What color do you think I want to feature in my quilt?
- What color combination/s do you think I like best? There several possible correct answers.
- How many of the above blocks would you rate as Beginner? Intermediate? Challenging?
- What is the significance of the answer to question #3?
The next time I see you, if you have the correct answer to question #5, you'll win a prize!
duh -- can we write BLUE !!!! I love the blue and green combo. As far as beginner blocks - certainly NONE of the Farmer's Wife. But of the ones you did, I'd say log cabin, the salmon and blue, and the dk blue/light blue HST's. The others, I'm not so sure about. I personally found the card trick to be tricky - but that just might be me. Is that the sashing material? Guess I'll find out on Friday!! Oh, and if I knew what question #5 was, I'd have a chance to win the prize. Oh, wait -- the prize is you and me at Quilt Camp!!
ReplyDeletecongrats my dear! This is quite the accomplishment (and still does not make me want to revisit my abandoned blocks- just yet!) and I love, love, love the additions!
ReplyDeleteWon't answer the quiz- I'd feel too much like a "ringer" lol...I do however concur with Mary Ellen- not one single block of the Farmer's Wife should be attempted by a beginner (or maybe even an intermediate?) quilter who values their sanity! You however...well what can I say other than I can not wait to see this one when it is finished.