I finished the Farmer's Wife block. Isn't she pretty? and the block does look like a woman doesn't it. It was hair of dog to put it together tho. More than half of it was set in.
This is how it looks RWQuilts. The entire block was templates. I don't make the plastic templates or the freezer paper either, well sometimes I do.
I just printed out the pattern, cut out the templates, pinned with two pins to the fabric and layed my ruler on the 1/4 inch line and cut wherever there was a straight line. On the curved pieces I cut with sissors.
I can't see going through all the work of plastic templates if I am only going to it once or twice. I did sew all the tempates together to the back of the pattern page and filed it.