The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired
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- ISBN13: 9780896898288
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Be Inspired by the Tales
In 1922, The Farmer’s Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: “If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?” The magazine at that time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired.
Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and make your own sampler quilt:
- 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with construction diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions
- Perfect instruction for building a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king
- CD with simple-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams
- 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer?s Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country?s past
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This book has wonderful ancient patterns that are simple to follow within the book and a CD. If you like quilting, you’ll like this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
It’s ok. The letters were appealing. I would have liked some photos of the places that they lived and conditions & farms of the time period. After all, that was part of the focus of the book! Has a nice selection of blocks, and it really is a sampler. No two blocks are the same. It is a book of blocks, not a “how to” quilting book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I like the thought of this book and am currently making a Dear Jane quilt. When I saw this book, I thought it would be right up my alley. I was so excited that it came with software—-what a deal! Then I received the book/software combination….the software was less than ideal. It’s in pdf format and has just one template outline per page. Printing off all the patterns would be about 106 pages then you’d have to figure out which pieces of the 106 go with which blocks and transfer your cutting template. It’s disappointing at best.
Luckily somewhere along the way, I learned about EQ and have invested in some of their software, so when I establish out that The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt – A Companion CD for EQ6, I ordered that as well. If I’d have known yet to be of time, I probably would have just ordered the CD but the book is nice to have, to read up on background tales and envision the blocks before printing them off. Have fun and order the CD. You can thank me later. =)
Pleased Quilting!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
To start: Yes, I have read everything related to the CD problems, but I did not find a solution to the problem I had, which is that merely inserting the CD caused Windows to immediately shut down. You can’t simply read template documents if you can’t use your computer. Over and over this happened, because I could not eject the CD while Windows was shut down, and it took awhile to forcibly remove the CD so that my computer would again boot. As the book is constructed in such a manner as to be utterly useless lacking the templates, this is a serious shortcoming.
In a comment to one of the reviews, I learned that you can download the zipped files at
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at least for now. But what about later? Will the templates be there in a couple of years? And templates are not the most accurate or well-organized method of constructing most of these blocks. Measurements would have allowed an veteran quilter to produce many of the designs in a superior fashion, avoiding the handling of lots of microscopic pieces. (These 6″ blocks can have more than 30 pieces.)
If you know anything at all about quilting, I reflect that you are better off with Jinny Beyer’s new book, The Quilter’s Baby book of Patchwork Patterns: 4050 Pieced Blocks for Quilters. If you know very small about quilting, I would suspect that you would get quickly frustrated at the tediousness and difficulty of template piecing with such tiny pieces. The absolute minimal thing that should have been done is including measurements. Then veteran quilters — the ones most likely to end the entire quilt — could then choose the cutting and piecing techniques most well-organized and accurate for each block. (For example, Triangulations 2.0 makes constructing the copious half-square triangles a breeze, and does them very accurately, too.)
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Awesome book. Fantastic thought for a book, gorgeous letters and blocks, takes you back to another place and time.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5