March WOOFA ....

.... I have a finish!!!   yay!!!!

I finished my Farmers Wife Quilt - finished at approx 60" square, 61 blocks

I am very pleased with the way it turned out :)  I used a mixed selection of fabrics in tonings & colours that I like :)  Mostly Fat Quarters and most collected over a 12 month period.  The backing heart fabric was a great find at a Market  :)

Quilting was done on a vintage domestic Janome - but there was a casualty :(

Partway through adding the binding, there was a metalic sound, then a sort of a clicking that didn't sound good :(  I opened the bobbin drawer and that little curved piece of metal was lying on the bottom - I don't know where it came from :(  (thanks to the internet, I was able to determine that little sliver of metal has come off the bobbin case - not sure it can be 'fixed' but I have another bobbin case, so I can continue using the Janome :) )

I love the binding, Kansas Troubles by Moda.

Many thanks to the lovely Cheryll for hosting

WOOFA :)
I am newly motivated to get onto the next UFO!

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FNwF yay!!!!

I finally got my act together and did some Friday Night with Friends Sewing :)

I have given up on making my Farmer's Wife quilt a King size quilt - we haven't even bought the new king size bed yet, and it may be a while until that happens.  So ....... I need a new quilt to snuggle under while watching TV, so this is going to be it!

... and because it is a long weekend here in Adelaide, I spent Friday Night doing a bit of 'un-sewing' so that the quilt will now be a 6 x 6 layout, on Saturday I rearranged the setting triangles, then Sunday I added another row ....  wooo hooo !!  progress at last.

Many thanks to Cheryll for the FNwF sign-ups and for the WOOFA challenge - that's one project on my WOOFA list closer to being finished!

And because I was on a roll, I did some 'mindless' piecing and made up a scrappy block

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Time to start farming again :)

I was tidying up the sewing room, and decided to put up my Farmers Wife quilt on the 'design wall' in the hope it will motivate me to commence 'farming' again :)

This was my last 'progress shot' from 2016.

We are looking at buying a new bed in the very near future, and have decided to upgrade to a 'king size' bed, so I will have to make this quilt a little bit wider now :)

let the farming begin!

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Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt progress

Here is where I am at with my Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt




53 BLOCKS MADE, 58 LEFT TO GO :)

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OMG - Farmers Wife Quilt Revival Lesson #4 ....

.... finally completed!  Better late than never!





















53 down ............ 58 to go!

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OMG - May & June ........ not quite there

Well, I did get to do some sewing this last two months ............ not as much as I would have liked, but at least I got a few things off my sewing list done!

My goal for May was to complete Lesson 4 of FWQR - got some blocks done, but did not complete the lesson.

During May, I also completed the Bee Block for Do Good Stitches - Single Wedding Ring block in pink - a big 13" block!

Now into the June Bee Blocks for Do Good Stitches - scrappy strips - 8" x 11"

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OMG - May - Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt

just putting it out there to make me more accountable  LOL

I intend to get back into the habit of regular sewing time each week and complete Lesson 4 of Farmers Wife Quilt Revival by the end of May!

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OMG - another fail

well that, was a big fail ........................ I intended to complete Lesson 4 of Farmers Wife Quilt Revival by the end of March!

I only got one block done :(

Block 33 - Farmer's Puzzle

Time to take a breath, and make a new goal for April :)

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OMG February - Big Fail :(

well that, was a big fail ........................ I intended to complete Lesson 4 of Farmers Wife Quilt Revival by the end of February!

I didn't even get one block done :(

Time to take a breath, and make a new goal for March :)

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On a positive note, this is my 600th Post :)  yay!!!

I did however, complete one swap - a Fat Quarter for Fat Quarter Swap

Received from Judith

Sent to Judith

I also completed a card swap, and that can be seen on my other blog.

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OMG - Farmers Wife Quilt Revival - Lesson 4

just putting it out there to make me more accountable  LOL

I intend to complete Lesson 4 of Farmers Wife Quilt Revival by the end of February!

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Farmer's Wife Progress

I have completed another row on my Farmer's Wife Quilt :)  it is looking so nice!



ofcourse, after some suitable preparation


another row completed!

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Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt - FWQR Lesson 3

I have been working on my Farmer's Wife Quilt through January - it was my goal to complete Lesson 3 before the end of the month.





















I actually made the following block using the templates


It really makes a difference using the rotary cutting instructions, and the magic 8 method of making the HSTs :)

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