Kona Buttercup
Kona Carnation
Ayumi Takahasi for Kokka, Lighthearted, Kitchen floral
Block 88, Rosemary (p.247, letter 104) takes a while to construct but it is well thought through with lots of nesting seam intersections when the sections are put together.
Fabric Credits
Kona Corn
Kona Melon
Heather Ross for Wyndham, Tiger Lily, brown butterflies
Darlene Zimmerman Mother's Melodies Chocolate spot
{For both blocks, I link to sponsor shops for fabric bought from them and elsewhere for other fabrics}
Rotary Cutting
These are for foundation piecing so are cut larger than needed
- Yellow centre square: cut (1) 1¾" square
- Yellow small squares: cut (4) 1 ⅜" square
- Yellow quarter square triangles: cut (1) 3" square; sub-cut each square into quarters along the diagonals to yield 4 QSTs
- Brown butterflies A 1, B1, C1, D1: Cut (4) 1 ⅞" x 3 ¼" rectangles
- Brown butterflies half square triangles: cut (4) 3 ¼" squares; sub-cut each square in half along the diagonal to yield 8 HSTs
- Melon half square triangles: cut (4) 3 ¼" squares; sub-cut each square in half along the diagonal to yield 8 HSTs
- Melon small rectangles: cut (8) 1 ¼" rectangles
- Brown grid small rectangles: cut (8) 1 ¼" rectangles
- Brown grid quarter square triangles: cut (2) 3" square; sub-cut each square into quarters along the diagonals to yield 8 QSTs
- Pre cut all pieces
- Use a water based glue stick e.g. Sewline, to stick the first piece of fabric on each section
- Chain piece where possible; there are lots of repeated sections
- For F1, G1, H1 and E1, add a larger than needed triangle lining up the pint of the triangle with the centre seam between the first two sections. When you trim the new section to size use the paper on the rest of the sections as a guide line for your quilt ruler. The 45 degree line should line up on the seam between the first two sections
I love how this block turned out, I used some of my favourite fabrics and colours and I like the bird/plane shapes!
I've added two more nine-patch blocks my collection, (you can see the original idea for this quilt in that link) 19 in total so far.
- You can share your farmer's wife quilt blocks with the hashtags #fw1930sqal and for these blocks either #Prudenceblock or #Rosemaryblock as well as #fw87Prudence, #fw88Rosemary
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- There's a Flickr group you can add to here. All my Farmer's Wife 1930s blocks can be seen in this album and my 9-patch blocks in this album.
Jo Avery is back as a guest blogger next Monday. See you next week x
Two lovely, but complicated, blocks!
ReplyDeletePrudence was a nasty one, but I got it on the second try! I feel like there should be a medal or something!
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