Farmers’ Wife 1930’s Tutorial — Block #63

It’s been a while since I’ve done a tutori­al for The Farm­er­’s Wife 1930s Sew Along  Angie from Gnome Angel is host­ing so hi, and wel­come, to every­one who has joined in since my last post.    Truth be told it’s been a little while since I’ve sewn any Farm­ers Wife blocks.  I I am abso­lutely determ­ined to fin­ish this quilt though so there will be more.   On the bright side I’m over half way with the blocks I’ll need which is kinda nice.

This week’s block is #63 Mol­lie.   The won­der­ful folks at Mar­ti Michell thought Mol­lie looked a bit flat so they’ve kindly provided an altern­at­ive, and very pretty, block called Lor­na.   I’ve made both, but for today’s tutori­al I will be work­ing through Lor­na using the Mar­ti Michell tem­plate sets.

First things first… head on over to Mar­ti’s blog to grab a copy of the con­ver­sion chart and your B & D tem­plate sets.  You’ll need those to go with the tutori­al.    You will also need to select four dif­fer­ent fabrics.

Start­ing with the centre unit for each side of the block cut your fab­rics using the B14 and D29 tem­plates.   The con­ver­sion chart will show you the easi­est way to cut using the tem­plates.     I like to lay the pieces out as they will appear in the block right beside my sew­ing machine.  I find it makes sew­ing them a little faster and, I’m less likely to acci­dent­ally sew things in the wrong place!   Use pins to align each piece cor­rectly and sew  them as shown in the pic­tures below.   You will need to make 4 of the centre units.

Next, cut the pieces for the corner units using the B13 and D29 tem­plates and a 1 inch strip.     Press the 1 inch strip in half with wrong sides togeth­er and then arrange the pieces beside your sew­ing machine again.  Just like the centre unit you can fol­low along with the pic­tures below and you’ll be fin­ished all four corner units in a flash.

All you need to do now is arrange the centre and corner units and one B12 square.  Sew them togeth­er into rows and then join the rows. Easy!

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.

Happy sew­ing,