Farmer's Wife Friday!

82 Finished, 29 to go! YaY!!!  

Here's #74 Ribbons.  Mine are happy polka dot Ribbons! My favorite strawberry fabric is in this block. 

This is another from my list of blocks I'm dreading: #22 Corn and Beans.  But you know what?  It wasn't bad at all!  I cut my pieces very very very carefully, sewed just as carefully, stoping to measure and check each section as it was completed, and it came together very easily!  I was so so SO happy, especially after the battle I had with the seemingly simple Spiderweb last week.  Fought the temptation to make Corn and Beans yellow and green.  Fought it so hard I ended up with this combination of grey, black, pink and red.  

And here is #104 Wild Geese. Can I just say the colors in this one make me think of a handful of Skittles? 

 I just love my little Farmer's Wife Sampler blocks!
If you'd like to see more beautiful blocks by all the hundreds of quilters working on this quilt, be sure and visit The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt Along flickr group.

I recently discovered a Farmer's Wife Friday linky party hosted by Ellie at Craft, Sew Create! Her blog is new to me.  Here's a fun fact though, apparently we have the same taste in fabric--she is creating her Farmer's Wife Sampler with the same fabrics I am using!

Click HERE!

Happy Stitching!

Solids Along--The Next Installment

I've been building more Solids Along Sampler blocks, and I just love them.
Here's my favorite of the bunch. I love the design and the colors I used.  
(Tutorial Here)

This is the block from Basic Grey.  This is a really fun design. I chose the colors after a several dreary cloudy days.  My mind was longing for sunshine! (Tutorial Here)

This is the Lila Ashbury block.  It was fast to stitch, which was nice after all those flying geese in the first block!

(Tutorial Here)

This quilt along is so much fun!  I'm so glad Sherri from a Quilting Life is hosting this event!

Talk to you later!

Quilt Along--Yeah, another one........

Quilt Alongs.  I'm addicted!  I admit it!
Right now I'm working on The Virtual Bee Quilt Along, which I showed you yesterday, The Solids Along Quilt Along, which I'll show you again in a couple days, and of course, I am still plugging away at The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt Along.  (and we won't even talk about my Made In Cherry Quilt Along quilt that has been finished for months--MONTHS--but still needs the binding hand stitched down!) 

That seems like it should be enough, right?  
I think it seems like enough--more than enough!

But this summer one fabulous quilt along after another has been announced!  Seriously?  Have you seen all the wonderful things going on out there?  And no, I couldn't resist! 

The Impromptu Along sucked me in.  I've loved that pattern every since Rachel of ps i quilt showed it on her blog for the first time almost 2 years ago.  My dear friend made the quilt last year and her version is so darn cute!  Yes, the quilt greed ratcheted up another notch then! LOL!  So, I jumped right into the Impromptu Along flickr pool and joined the group.  Not only that, I finally finally cut into my Nicey Jane fabric.  I've been  hoarding  saving this fabric for years. In fact, for too long.  I'd allowed the fabric to become to precious to use--no pattern was worthy of it's vintage charm, and let's face it, that is just silly!  

Here's my progress on my Impromptu quilt so far:
First there was the cutting.  Lots and lots of cutting.  Lots. 

For this quilt I've opted for the pink/orange prints from the Nicey Jane collection. (Still hoarding the blue/green for another day!) Here my little squares are displayed on my background fabric. This is actually a pale pink, Baby Pink Bella from Moda.  I want this quilt to have a very soft feminine look to it, so I went very low contrast with my background fabric.

Nicey Jane by Heather Bailey for Free Spirit Fabrics.
Baby Pink Bella by Moda.

Impromptu has 2 types of blocks, a dozen very large blocks...

and 13 disappearing 9 patch variation blocks.  Right now my 9 patches are all stitched up, ready to be sliced and diced.  I think I got carried away and actually made too many of these!

This quilt is really coming together FAST!

So, are you a quilt along junkie?  What are you working on?

Happy Stitching! 

PS--I'm going to do another quilt along....  I'll show you that one soon! =)