Farmer's Wife- ready to quilt

I got the borders on and figured out how to get a straight on picture outside today.  I made it LARGE so you can all see it.  The sun was a little bright, I'm not complaining! I'm so glad I can take pictures now without waiting for someone to hold up my quilts and quilt tops now. My Farmer's Wife Quilt is about 10" too long for a good picture without it dragging the ground.  I put a 6" border all around.  Something easy- BLOG- O- Border so I can do feathers there.  I am thinking of a simple Baptist fan for the center part. Gotta hold all those little pieces together.

In case you are wondering I bought a piece of metal conduit for $2 and used some large open hooks and drapery clips to hang my quilt top. I had to cut 8" off the end of the conduit with a hacksaw. Paul wasn't home and the neighbors wondered what I was doing.  They were leaving when I was out trying to figure it out and when they came home a bit later I was done.   TM said I used my Pioneer Spirit. I see that I might need to buy another pack of the clips. 10 wasn't enough. I got the clips at Ace Hardware with my rewards card, I had $5 to spend.  So they were almost FREE.

1/2 day late - Farmer's Wife Flimsy

 At Guild last night- I was pretty Lucky.  I bought one ticket for this Basket and WON.  Dummy me, didn't write my name on the back and when they pulled the blank ticket out, I remembered I'd forgotten. LOL They gave it to me anyway.  A MOVIE night in Basket.  Now I get to fill the basket for next month.

 

Gifts from my Secret Pal- she wrote on the card- Scarey Mary.  I have called myself that before. More 30's type fabrics to make a new project. Maybe the Row-Along Lori Holt has going.  She posted row 4 today.

This is how my Blocks looked after Monday nights long sewing session. Auditioning the Dark Brown Setting Triangles on two sides.  It still seems dark but it frames the block ok. Some sashings are already on and rows connected here.

I used the Row marker pins I won from Kathy in Canada a few months ago.  

I had to un-sew the Blue part of this block and fix it. The block right next to it had the same blue in it.  TOO close to leave it in.  I found a couple more blocks that have similar fabrics in them that are close to each other in the quilt, but they are staying the way they are.  The blocks that are turned differently than the book diagram are staying that way too! I've stayed up until the wee hours the past two nights.  I had about 5 long seams left to sew when I had to leave for my guild meeting.

 I had to take a Picture of the quilt just before I sewed those last few seams.  Paul came home in time for me to sew that last seam.  He had a migraine coming on...he's stretching out.

Here is the FLIMSY Farmer's Wife 

I won't have to put it on the Design wall/floor ever again. I will add another border, to be chosen later.

I thought I'd take a picture from the back to show all of the Paper that needs to be removed before quilting. I can hardly believe I'm DONE with it. I can hope to have it quilted in time to use it this year on my bed.  

Mama said: "Be careful what you wish for." I swore my whole teenage years that I would not want to marry a farmer, but 36 years ago I became a Farmer's Wife in November of 1976.  He's not a Farmer now, it only took 10 years to get him off the farm...This quilt is MINE!

Design Wall Monday- October 8, 2012

I hope that I don't have this same Quilt on my Wall next week.  I have those two final Paper-pieced blocks to make, but I wanted to make my Setting Triangles decision.  In the book it looks like they are the same fabric as the cornerstones so this is what they would look like. This is the upper right corner. On the left are the next two rows to add to it.  This wall isn't big enough to spread it all out. Guild is tomorrow and I'm still hoping to have it to the Flimsy stage in time to show it there. The brown is a bit dark to me.  

 Judy L chose the UFO for October- # 6. Unlike last month, I thought I could at least get it out of the tote.
I counted the Friendship stars =7, and Christmas Stars= 20. I'll have to use the name squares somehow too.  I hope to play with them in EQ7 this month and use the Tutorial that Marlene (kissed quilts) shared last week to import the pictures of them. Wish me luck.

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Stitching in September

I have tried to sew a bit each day since this is National Sewing Month.   I don't sew at all on Sunday, it is my Sabbath Day.  The Project I'm mostly working on is my Farmer's Wife and Sylvia's Bridal Sampler.  They both are made from my 30's Stash.  Here is my Farmer's Wife on the wall at Lynn's this week.

 This is how it was after Tuesday.  I forgot and didn't take out the blocks from Month 9 or 10 that I have done.

Wednesday, I sewed more sashings on and we put it up with the bottom on the side. I turned the picture so the bottom corner is the same in both pictures. Putting this quilt on point isn't as easy as it looks.

  Lynn is smart and is adding a sashing and cornerstone to two sides of each block.  Her quilt won't be in the same Placement as the Book has.  I'll be working on finishing the last of my blocks and try to get this to Flimsy before the Farmer's Wife Class this month.  Happy Sewing/Quilting my Blogger Friends!