Farmer's Wife Blocks: week 41 (I think!)

Lots of blocks

Block #99 W.C.T.U  (what?)

Block # 74 Ribbons

Block # 38 Four Winds

Block #48 Homeward Bound

Block: Honey's Choice

Well, I got super busy with these little pesky blocks this weekend and I made a whack of them.  The end is so close, I can taste it!

I am well on my way to 111 blocks.  I think one more blitz next Saturday and I will be done!!!!  Then comes the task of sashing and arranging.  I am really wondering if I should stick with white or try something a little out of the box.  I was actually thinking of a yellow pin dot or something.  Nothing super whacky but different nonetheless.  All of these blocks were fine to put together.  There were just way too many little itty bitty triangles for my liking. 

In my ideal world, I would have this finished in time to enter it into Rachel's scrap attack linky party a the end of the month.  It would totally fit the bill since the whole shebang is made with bits and pieces of scrap-tacularness.

On a completely unrelated note, I am obsessed with tracking the shipment of my new iPad.  It has been parked in Louisville, Kentucky, of all places, since last Friday.  Get it moving, Apple!  Apparently they cannot allow people to have them before stores have them, so I wait.  Impatiently.

Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Winner!!!

Thank you to all of you who stopped by to enter this little giveaway!  I am delighted to have followers.  I really am.  It was really interesting to hear about all the fabric you are wishing for.  It made me look some fabrics up to see the lovelies.  Without further ado.  The winner is.... Yippee!

Mr. Random Number picked comment number 4 and that is none other than Jan-Maree!!!!!!!!!  Jan-Maree lives all the way over in Australia but I will pop her an email and send out as soon as I can get myself to the post office!

Jan-Maree said "Congrats on 200! Now I am drooooooooling over your give away fabric - I should be heading out the door but I am entering your give away first!"

Design Wall Monday... Granny Squares!

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I have been working away at more scrap busting.  Not only am I using scraps for the Farmer's Wife quilt along and I made my Wonky Scrappy Little Star quilt but now I am busting those scraps into Granny Square blocks.  I love these blocks!  They make me smile when I look at them up on the design wall.  Isn't that what a quilt should do?  Make you smile?  


This is a super easy block to make and it can be as scrappy as you like.  There are lots of great tutorials out there in blog land and Dana at the Old Red Barn  is hosting a granny square quilt along on Flicker.  


Have a super happy Monday.  Only one week until spring break for me.  Cannot wait!  And the spa day with my bestest card ladies was a blast.  My toes have never looked so lovely!  I almost had a quilting moment when asked to pick a polish colour.  I was thinking hmmmm, what would scrappy look like on toes??????


I am linking up with Judy's Design Wall Monday.  Do check out what all the quilty people are up to.  It is just so interesting!  

Sunday Stash

Fun fat quarters... can you name them?

Really not coordinating roll ends... can you name these ones?

I am really getting a lot of sewing related fabric.  

I popped into my favourite and fabulous local quilt shop yesterday after the thrift stores failed to deliver.  I was looking to see if they had any scrap bags.  I just so love scrap bags.  No scrap bags but I did pick up a couple of roll ends and fat quarters were buy 2 get one free.  Yummy!

I am off to the spa with the card ladies this afternoon.  So seriously exciting.  We play Whist for money (not much money... not like we are wild gamblers!) and have saved all the money from the last year and a half and now we are going to blow a big chunk of it on the spa.  Wahoo!  Then dinner and cards afterwards.  I love my card ladies!  They are just the best!!!

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Saturday sewing...

Thrift stores were a bust today.  I have not had good luck lately at all.  (Scowly face)  I did, however get some sewing done today.  My Farmer's Wife blocks are piling up and the end is so close, I can taste it!!!  The pile numbers 100 blocks as of today and I am going to try to make a few more today.  Yippee!!!

I took this picture of one of the Farmer's Wife blocks in progress.  Just to show the absolute insanity of the little bits that these are made up of.  Good grief.  A bazillion and a half little triangles sewn into half a bazillion little squares which are then sewn together.  Who thought this up?  And what crazy quilters are doing this for fun?  Oh...  me.  He he he....

Don't forget to enter my giveaway to celebrate 200 followers!  Open until Tuesday, March 13.  Good luck everyone!!!

Thank Goodness It's Friday!

(from Denyse Schmidt's website)

A couple of things.   There is some serious fabric shopping going on around the globe as so many of us crazies (and I say that with fondness) try to get our paws on the legacy reprint of Flea Market Fancy.  Squeal!  Winging it's way to me as we speak is a lovely pile of fabric goodness from the Fat Quarter Shop!  Squeal!!!  

I was not able to get everything I hoped for as some of the line was already sold out and I have some of the original Flea Market Fancy so did not pick any repeats.  I am just so excited!  I cannot believe how quickly some online shops have sold out.  

And check out the modern mini winners over at Ellison Quilts!  Fabulous stuff!!!

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Farmer's Wife Quilt Along: Week 40

Block #64  Peace and Plenty

Block #  Strawberry Basket or Husband called it Fish on the Bank

Block #78 Shooting Star

Block # 62 Old Windmill

Week 40!  Amazing!  This week I made 4 blocks!  I can almost taste the finish line!  I used very similar colours for the shooting star block as they did in the book.  I did this on purpose because I really did not want to tax my brain anymore than I needed to as this block had all sorts of reversed pieces.  Anyway, I am perfectly content with it.  I fussy cut strawberries for the strawberry basket.  So cute!  And I put on my big girl pants and did the 2 blocks with many half square triangles.  Phew!  So I think I must be very close to 100 blocks and that means the countdown is really on to 111!!!!!!!

Husband likes to guess the names of the blocks when I made them.  As I love sharing (showing off) the blocks as I make them, he has become strangely creative with coming up with block names.  This is why the strawberry basket block is on its side not on point.  He says it should be called Fish on the Bank.  So silly.  But it does sort of look like that!

Other than farmer's wife blocks, don't forget to enter my giveaway to celebrate 200 followers!