Gorgeous use of those batiks, Jan.

Honchey, I hope we can keep chatting in the main thread. After all, we'll need a place to show our finished quilts, once we have them all together.

I am going to try and discipline myself not to start another sampler until I get the 1930's one all put together and quilted.

I been checking out all of the beautiful blocks that you ladies have made and if you don't mind can I as a couple questions? Wow, what a long sentence. lol. What sizes are the blocks ? Where do you get the patterns? are they paper pieced? Will you be posting pictures of your finished projects? I think they are so pretty. You have all done fabulous work. Mary

Mary, Honchey is leading us thourgh the third book of Laura Aaron Hird's quilt books. This is the third one that we have done together called The Farmer's Wife 1930. It is available at most quilt shops or Amazon. It is collected stories and quilt blocks from the reading of stories in the Farmer's Wife Magazine from 1919 to about 1933 that she has put together. Most are using the reproduction fabric of the era, but a few wild cards like myself are using what ever I want too. Yes, we paper piece most of them...but not all, depending upon the block. The book comes with a CD with; the blocks, templates and paper piece patterns. There are 99 blocks, so we are three weeks from the finish line, but you can began anytime and access this site by week that we did two per week. Hope that clears up the story behind what we are doing. Ask whatever questions you want and someone will answer them. Our main 'chat' site is the Pony Club discussion page that we have almost finished with. Mine is at the LA place waiting its turn to be quilted. That was the second book of Ms. Hird. The first was the Farmer's Wife Sample Quilt.

Such bright, colorful blocks this week. QNS, it wouldn't surprise me if Givio has some of that fabric! I enjoyed making these two.
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Thanks NinaSue. They are just so pretty. What size are the finished blocks or are the different sizes?

Mary, the are six and half inches, finish at six inches. Ms. Hird can really cut a lot of pieces into that six inches for sure. first book used six inches also; the second one she used 8 inches. Her fourth book will be out this fall, called Bible verses, or something like that. We have all refused to consider the four book, moving on into the Gypsy Lady, starting in September lead by Honchey again or that is begining discussed at this time.

Hi Mary,

I joined this group late... they were over halfway! So I have been trying to keep up weekly and also work from the start of the book too-- on my 'catch up blocks', LOL. If you want to make this quilt with us, there are some of us who are behind the others and will not quite finish in three weeks. We go to the thread for the week's blocks and post them in their proper thread when we are done making them. Then there is a main thread where we chit chat a lot. I hope all the ladies still visit there when they are done. I will miss everyone if they don't!

I paper piece all my blocks using the 1930's repros, and most of mine come out at about 6.25" square. Some are 6.5". I'm sure I'll be doing some adjusting when it comes time to put them all together.

THanks again ladies. For now I'll just sneak along in the background Bonnie. I have really enjoyed seeing all the pretty blocks.

They are fun to do. Some are hard... a real sense of accomplishment when you get one done.

Yes, We need to keep the original Updated thread going...Where else would we show our finished tops/quilts??