Farmers’ Wife 1930’s Tutorial — Block #96

Some­times plans def­in­itely do not go accord­ing to plan!   I had hoped to be waaaayyyy fur­ther down the track with my Farm­ers’ Wife 1930’s blocks by the time I pos­ted this tutori­al but I haven’t man­aged it.  Still, at least this is one more block done and, for every­one sew­ing along with the Farm­ers’ Wife 1930’s Sewalong hos­ted by Angie from Gnome Angel  I have a quick  tutori­al show­ing you the easi­est way I could think of to make Block 96 — Tizrah.   I’m feel­ing par­tic­u­larly fest­ive so mine is a little bit Christmassy 🙂

Righto… on with the show…

The first thing you are going to need to do is print out the tem­plate sheet you got on the CD with your book.   Meas­ure the size of each tem­plate piece (includ­ing the seam allow­ance).     Don’t worry about the little tri­angles (96E & F) and, you only need to meas­ure across the width of the funny look­ing dia­mond piece (96D).   Make a note of the meas­ure­ments you’ll need them to work through the tutorial.

Lets make the middle pieces for each side first.   I cut long strips rather than a whole bunch of ones the exact size I needed to save a little time and make things easi­er.   Sew a dark­er fab­ric strip to either side of the light fab­ric strip.

Press the seams open and then trim into 4 pieces the same size as tem­plate piece 96A.

Next, from the light fab­ric cut four squares about 1–1 ¹⁄₂″ lar­ger than the 96A tem­plate.   Cut the squares in half diag­on­ally to make 8 triangles.

You will also need to cut some strips of dark­er fab­ric the same size.   Tip: When you meas­ured across the width of tem­plate piece 96D you prob­ably noticed that it’s 1/16th short of a nice round quilty num­ber (e.g. 1 ¹⁄₄″).   Feel free to cut the strips at a round num­ber at the round num­ber if you find that easier.

Sew a tri­angle to either side of the dark fab­ric strip and press seams towards the dark fab­ric.   Trim in half and then repeat, in the oppos­ite dir­ec­tion with anoth­er dark strip.

You’ll end up with a corner unit much big­ger than you need but that’s fine.  Using your cut­ting matt lines and a ruler line up the centre of the cross and trim to make a unit that is the same size as tem­plate piece 96A.   Make 4.

Lay out all of your com­pleted units and sew them into three rows of three.   Press seams in altern­ate dir­ec­tions.   Sew the rows togeth­er and press seams open.

Much easi­er than paper piecing or try­ing to fiddle with those teeny tem­plates right?!?  I can­’t wait to see all of yours!

If you haven’t joined in with The Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt Sewalong yet you can get all of the inform­a­tion you need, includ­ing how to join the Face­book group, over on Angie’s site by click­ing here.

The book by Laurie Hird, Farm­er­’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt: Inspir­ing Let­ters from Farm Women of the Great Depres­sion and 99 Quilt Blocks That Hon­or Them (Fons & Porter/F+W); RRP $28.99 – Click here to pur­chase.