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Monday, May 28, 2012

Super Mario Brothers QAL YES Please!!

I just saw that Angela Pingel of Cut To Pieces might host a Quilt Along and is trying to see how many people would be interested. It's going to be SUPER MARIO BROTHERS Quilt!! :) I really hope more people want to do it!! Pop on over and let her know.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day!

Thanks to the men and women who give their lives serving us. We remember you!

Monday, January 23, 2012

Farmer's Wife Quilt Block

So this week on the farm I did Blocks 3 and 4.

I changed them up just a bit. It's my quilt and I think I can do that right? So Block # 3 is Basket and that's great, but I'm just not really into the basket handle look. So it got nixed. Then came Block #4 and I like it a lot, but it just reminds me of a swastika. With the red, black and cream/white color it's all I can see. Has anybody else thought this? So I turned them a bit.

The lighting I have is horrible at night and doesn't make for good pictures. Sorry :(

I'm really enjoying these little blocks, they are a lot of fun to put together and really don't take up that much time - So far. I hope your having fun putting your blocks together too! Oh is anyone having any trouble with how to press the seams?
Oh and I linked up with the fabulous Megan from Canoe Ridge Creations for Modern Monday. It's so fun seeing what everyone is working on. Go check it out if you haven't already :)
Talk to you soon.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

I'm A Farmer Now!

GGGGRRRRR!!!!!!

I wrote a whole blog post like three days ago and posted it and then the stinky thing disappeared! Of course I didn't figure that out until today :( That is a little irritating!! Oh well here we go again.

So I'm sure most of you have seen The Farmers Wife Quilt book and all the buzz about the Quilt alongs. I have been cyber stocking the lovely ladies over at Fussy Cut and Ms Mc Pork Chop Quilts for a long time. I have wanted to join in, but since I was overloaded with a million projects and still pretty new to quilting I thought I would begin with the new year. I think a lot of people have had this idea. Over at Make Something she started a quilt along last week.

I have seen a lot of different ways to do the blocks: Standard templates, paper piecing, printing on freezer paper and figuring out the math. I tried printing on freezer paper and almost broke out printer. My husband didn't think it was such a good idea. I would love to just do the math, but I'm afraid of messing up something. I never thought that I would need math/geometry in anything that I would be doing. If only I could have seen quilting in my future :)

Anyways I decided to do the templates and will aim for at least 2 blocks a week. I started with Block 1 and Block 2 and really loved them. Can't wait to get hoppin on next weeks!

I really loved this block, it was super fun to put together.