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Lots more Farmer's Wife blocks

There is no way my Farmer can possibly still be feeling neglected. Since my last post I have been doing a block a day.






Here they are: The first one was Shooting Star. I got a bit grumpy with all of the random triangles - I'd pin them on, flip them over and they would be going the wrong way, so I'd unpin them, repin them, and they would still be the wrong way. But I got there in the end: some of the seams get a bit chunky, but I like the end result.


After the Shooting Star, I wanted something a bit easier, so I tried Puss in the Corner: really quick and really pretty (and more purple than it looks in the photo!).


Next I did Waterwheel. This is one of my favourites so far and I would love to see it across a complete quilt top. It makes me think of jigsaws.





And finally I did Cups and Saucers in a whacky green and pink batik.




I was getting quite concerned about the amount of fabric I was wasting through foundation piecing. Somewhere on the Flickr group in the depths of a discussion thread, someone suggested using the templates to cut the pieces roughly and then foundation piece. I've now done this on a couple of blocks with virtually no wastage and less agravation from the triangles, so whoever's idea this was - thank you.



I'm home from work on Friday and it's the August bank Holiday - three days of patchwork stretches ahead of me - heaven.

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Kimberlee, The Spunky Diva said…
I am loving those fabrics. The way you used the blues in the waterwheel block is just fabulous. I 'sew' wish I hd three days to spend on this quilt, but... the kiddos would strongly object, LOL!
~ Kimberlee at The Spunky Diva 
26 August 2011 at 19:57
Linni said…
Wow what a quilt this will turn out to be! I am really smitten with the choices you are making, so lovely. I have just done shooting star too and it just about did my head in! I agree that there is a bit of wastage with paper piecing although I have tried to reduce it as much as possible. Most of the time its fine but blocks like the shooting star are hard to not waste on.
Lovely.
27 August 2011 at 10:38
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