Farmer’s Wife Quilt Along Month 10

This month we are adding the final outside border and making the binding.

You will need 2 metres of large floral fabric in your choice of Pink or Aqua.

Cutting the Outside Borders.

Lay the folded fabric down on your cutting mat with the fold on the right and the selvages aligned on the left.

Measure across, from the inside edge of the selvage and start cutting an 8’’ strip along the entire edge of the fabric to give you 2 x 8’’ border strips. Use a second ruler to help keep your cutting line straight.  Proceed slowly smoothing the fabric as you go.

Come back to the start and repeat with a second pair of 8’’ border strips.  This should leave you with 5’’ to the fold. 

Flip the first border, keeping the edges even, measure 8’’ from the cut edge and cut off the selvages to give you 4 x 8’’ strips 2mtrs long.

 

 

 

Cutting the Binding Strips.

Come back to the start again and cut a 2 ½’’ strip along the length of the 5’’ fabric strip.  Open up the remaining strip and cut again along the fold to give you 4 x 2 ½’’ x 2mtrs binding strips. 

Cut the ends of these binding strips on a 45d angle.

 

 

Sewing the Outside Borders.

Measure your quilt top through the centre from top to bottom and cut one pair of 8’’ strips to this length.  Pin and sew these evenly to each side of your quilt. You may have to ease these along as the large #71 triangles do tend to stretch a bit. Press seams towards the borders.

Repeat this process measuring from side to side for the top and bottom border strips.

Now your Farmer’s Wife Quilt top really is finished!  We really love this beautiful quilt and hope you are as in love with it as we are! xxx

Sewing the Binding.

Join the binding strips end to end with a ¼’’ seam, keeping the edges even.   Press these seams open and press a ¼’’ hem on one end.

Fold the long strip in half, with wrong sides together, and press to make a long doubled over strip of binding.  Neatly roll up ready for finishing off your quilted quilt.

Farmers Wife Quilt Along - Month 4 Instructions

We will be making Blocks, 39, 19, 56, 48, 7, 105, 90, 61.

Templates for month 4 are, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 19, 20, 21, 45, 52, 94.

Before starting spray a light coating of starch on the wrong side of all the fabrics.  Iron and cut as usual.  This range of Flower Sugar fabrics are printed on a beautiful, fine base fabric, great for most sewing but not for small triangles.

Week 13

                                                            
Use Templates 7, 8, 13, 20, 21 and 45.

Template # 21 measures 1 15/16’’. If you place the fabric against the inside of the thicker 2 inch line, on your ruler this seems about right, most rulers only mark the 1/8’’. If you are worried about this cut a 2’’ square and trim using the template.

Friendship. Using the White small roses, trace and cut 4 #45. Trace and cut 1 each of #7 and #8 from each of the 4 medium rose fabrics, 1 in Red, Yellow, Pink and Aqua. Arrange and sew together as per book.

Checkerboard.  Using the White small Rose fabric, cut 4 x 1 15/16’’squares for #21.
For rotary cutting, cut 2 x 1 15/16’’ squares and 4 x2 ¼’’ squares, cut these on the diagonal to give you 4 # 13 and 8 #20.

Cut 9 x 1 15/16’’squares, 1 in Red and 2 each in Pink, Yellow and Aqua in the Medium roses and then 2 in the Green small roses to give you 9 #21. Arrange and sew together as per book.

Week 14

Use templates 1, 3, 7, 19, and 52.

Maple Leaf. From the Green small roses trace and cut 1 #52 and 1 x 2 ½’’ square for 1 #1.
Cut 1 x 2 ½’’ square and 1 #3 each in Red and Yellow Medium roses then, cut 1 x 2 7/8’’ square in Pink medium roses and cut on the diagonal for 2 #3.
Using the Aqua Spot cut 1 x2 ½’’ square #1 and 2 x 2 7/8’’ and 1 x 2 3/8’’ squares, cut on the diagonal for 4 # 3 and 2 # 7. Arrange as per photo and book.

Homeward Bound. Using the Aqua Spot fabric cut 1 x 2 ½’’ square, #1 and 4 x 1 ½’’ squares for 4 # 19.
Cut 1 x 2 ½’’ and 2 x 1 ½’’ squares each in Aqua, Pink and Yellow medium roses and Green small roses. Then cut 4 x 1 ½’’ squares in Red medium roses to give you 4 #1 and 12 #19. Arrange as per photo, sew corners into 2 ½’’ squares and sew together in rows.

Week 15

Use templates 8, 13, 20 and 94.

Birds in the Air.  Note that I have reversed the position of the light and dark fabrics in this block.

Using the Aqua spot cut 12 x 2’’ squares, cut on the diagonal and trim to give you 24 #13. Trace and cut 3 #13 each in Green, Pink, Yellow and Aqua small roses.

Note: I didn’t Fussy Cut my #8 for this block but they looked so pretty with the roses in the centre in week 16 that I suggest you do. There is enough fabric to do so. Just check, the Green Check fabric, to ensure that you can still fit #94 BEFORE Fussy cutting the 3 #8.

Trace and Fussy cut 3 #8 in Pink, Yellow, Green and Aqua Check roses. Save 2 of each colour for blocks 90 and 61.
String piece the Aqua and coloured # 13s together, press and trim to 1 ½’’ squares. Arrange in place, sew together in rows adding the Aqua spot #13s to complete the triangle.  Sew together with the matching Check triangle, press and trim to 3 ½’’ squares and sew as per photo.

Wild Goose Chase.  This is a quick and easy way to make Flying Geese Blocks.  It makes 4 at once, as we need 12 that number is just right.

Using the Aqua Spot cut 12 x 1 7/8’’ squares. Using a sharp pencil draw a diagonal line across the wrong side, or press a crease as per week 3.
Then cut 1 x 3 ¼’’ square from each of the Pink, Yellow and Aqua Small rose fabric.

Follow the photos for this:
Pin two Aqua squares, right sides together, to opposite corners of the bigger coloured square, overlapping the corners in the centre so that the line or crease runs from corner to corner.
Stitch ¼’’ either side of this line and cut apart on the line. Press seam towards the coloured side.
Pin two more squares as before to the remaining corners, sew cut and press as before, trim to 1 ½’’ x 2 ½’’ rectangle.  Repeat with the other squares.  Now you have your 12 Flying Geese. Arrange as in the photo and sew the Geese units together in two rows of six.
Cut 1 # 94 in Green Check Roses and sew this between the Flying Geese.

Week 16

Use Templates 4, 8, 13, 20 and 21.

Storm Signal.  Start with your four Fussy Cut #8, two Yellow and two Green.
Using the Yellow small roses cut 3 x 1 15/16’’squares, cut 1 of these on the diagonal to give you 2 # 21 and 2 #13. Then cut 2 x 2 ¼’’ squares.  Repeat this with the Green small roses.  Using both coloured 2 ¼’’ squares make up 2 x ½ square triangles as per week 3.  Make up centre square using the four #13. Sew together in rows then add the corner triangles.

Northern Lights. Start with your 2 Aqua and 2 Pink check Fussy Cut #8s.
Using the Pink small roses cut 4 x 2’’ squares. Repeat with the Aqua small roses, to give you 8 #4.  Sew these in pairs and press towards the aqua.  Pair up again into 4, sew and press.  Sew the check triangles together, press and trim to 3 ½’’.  Sew these together as per book and press.

Wow that’s month 4 done. Aren’t they just so pretty! I hope you are enjoying these as much as we are!

Debby & Eve x

Farmer’s Wife Quilt Along - Month 3 Instructions

Templates for month 3 are, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 33, 34, 38, 48, 16, 16R

We are making blocks, 64, 74, 34, 103, 31, 51, 45, 101.

We have supplied extra fabric this month for Fussy Cutting. As so much is cut this way I haven’t provided a cutting guide.

Week 9

Use templates 7, 16 and 16R.

Using the white/small floral fabric cut 16 x 2 3/8’’ squares.
Then cut 2 x 2 3/8’’ squares each in Pink Cherries, Yellow, Red and Green.
Use 8 white squares together with the coloured squares and construct ½ square triangles as per block 11, trim to 2’’ squares, for 32 template #7. Arrange as shown in the book and photo.

Cut the other 8 white squares on the diagonal and trim, to give you 16 template #7.
Trace and cut 4 x template #16 in Pink Cherries. Trace and cut 4 x template #16R in Red.
Arrange top half as per book. String piece together and trim units into 2’’ x 3 ½’’ rectangles.
Sew together as per book. Repeat with the other half.

Now YOU have a choice! Either sew them together as Ribbons, as in the book OR reverse the lower section and sew them as Chevrons. I like both ways but I thought I should stick to the pattern. You can choose which way that you like best!

Week 10

Use templates 4, 5, 7 and 8.

In the Yellow Roses fabric, Fussy cut a 3 ½’’ square, for template #5, then cut a 4’’ square, for 2 template #8, then cut 4 x 2’’ squares for template #4 and then, 8 x 2 3/8’’ squares, for 16 template #7.
In the Pink Spot fabric cut a 4’’ square for 2 template #8 and then cut 8 x 2 3/8’’ squares, for 16 template #7.
Sew the 4’’ squares together, as per week 3 and trim to 3 ½’’ and then the 8 x 2 3/8’’pairs, 1 yellow and 1 pink, as per week 3, and trim to 2’’ squares.
Arrange the pieces as per book and photo and sew together.

Week 11

Use templates 4, 5, 7, 8 and 12.

These 2 blocks use the floral part of the White Rose Bouquet print.
Using the White Rose Bouquet fabric, Fussy cut, on the roses, a 3 ½’’ square for template #5 and a 4’’ square , cut on the diagonal, for 2 x template #8.
Cut 8 x 2’’ squares in Red for 8 template #4.

Using the Pink floral cut 2 x 3’’ squares, cut on the diagonal, for 4 template #12. Then cut 5 x 2 3/8’’ squares and cut 2 of these on the diagonal for 4 template #7 for block #51. Save 3 for ½ square triangles.

Using the Green fabric cut 7 x 2 3/8’’ squares. Cut 4 of these on the diagonal for the 4 template #7 in block 31. Then make up with the remaining 2 Pink 3/8’’ squares, 3 of each as per week 3. Arrange as per book and photo and sew together.

Week 12

Use templates 33, 34, 38 and 48.

These 2 blocks use the White/Cherry background part of the White Rose Bouquet print.
Template #34 measures 1 5/8’’ but when I used this measurement the block 101 only came to 6 ¼’’ square, so I have cut all mine 1 ¾’’ instead and used a slightly wider seam as I sewed them together. Start by sewing the centre row of block 101, press and measure. Adjust the seams to measure 6 ½’’ and use this seam allowance for the rest of the block. Remember, if you do need to trim, keep all the lines level with the ruler, horizontal, vertical and diagonal!

Using the White/Cherry background part of the fabric, Fussy cut 2 x 1 ¾’’ squares, with cherries in the centre, for 2 template #34, 1 for each block. Then trace and Fussy cut 2 x 4 1/8’’ x 1 ¾’’ rectangles to give you 2 template #48 and 1 template #33 also with cherries. Then trace and Fussy cut 10 template #38 also on the cherry background fabric.

Using the Pink Cherry fabric cut 1 template # 33, then cut 11 template #38, then cut 4 x 1¾’’squares for template #34, then cut 4 x 2 1/8’’ squares, made into ½ square triangles, to give you 8 template # 38.
Using the Pink Floral fabric cut 1 template # 33, then cut 1 x 2 1/8’’ square and cut on the diagonal for 2 template # 38, then cut 4 x 1 ¾’’ squares for template #34 and 6 2 1/8’’’’ squares for ½ square triangles.
Cut from the Green fabric 6 x 2 1/8’’ squares and 1 template # 38.
As per week 3 make up 2 Green and Pink Cherry, 4 Green and Pink floral and 2 Pink Cherry and Pink Floral ½ square triangles using the 2 1/8’’ squares.

Sew the White and Pink Cherry template # 38s together and the Green and Pink Cherry one. Press and arrange in place. These blocks are quite complicated so go slowly. Trim as needed to make your block measure 6 ½’’ square.

Good luck everybody with these last two blocks. 
Remember there are no mistakes just unique handmade works of fabric art. 

Debby & Eve