Ebook The Farmer Wife Sampler Quilt Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird 9780896898288 Books
Ebook The Farmer Wife Sampler Quilt Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird 9780896898288 Books
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Be Inspired by the Stories
The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired.
Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt
- 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions
- Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size lap, twin, queen or king
- CD with easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams
- 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past
Ebook The Farmer Wife Sampler Quilt Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird 9780896898288 Books
"I would have given it 5 stars except the CD is worthless!
I have been quilting for quite sometime now and call myself an intermediate to advanced quilter. I have never made a sampler before and this one looked like it had a large selection of blocks (111 to be exact) so I bought the book and I had read that there were two versions, one with and one without the CD, I made sure I bought the one with the CD.
I, like everyone else, was disappointed to see that there was just one template per page, but knowing that I was not going to be using the templates, it really wasn't of to much concern to me, other than I wasted the extra money for the now useless CD.
I agree with everyone, there are no instructions to tell you how to put the blocks together, but if you study the exploded pictures, anyone should be able to figure out what goes next to what.
Now I am also an avid Electric Quilt user, I decided, because as everyone else has stated, there are no measurements for the blocks other than the unfinished size.. (This is where the beginning quilter would get lost, frustrated and passably loose interest in quilting all together!) I decided to draft each of the blocks in Electric Quilt so I had all of the measurements and I could play with fabric placement and all the other wonderful things that you can do with EQ. I was able to print out a picture of my blocks, in the fabrics that I chose and then using the book as a reference tool, figure out how to assemble the blocks.
As for the historical inaccuracies... not my thing, I just wanted to learn how create these blocks, now when they were 1st made and by who, but that's just me, but if you are into the historical thing, read the other reviews that address that issue and you decide.
Would I recommend the book? Yes
Would I recommend the book with the CD? No
The Yahoo group that is spoken about does have a document that has all of the templates combined on 15 sheets of paper, but it is in numerical order. You still have to print all of the pages to get the templates you need instead of making a grouping of templates for each block. Nice try.
With the EQ program, you can also use it to create paper piecing patterns, something that should have been included on the CD but was not.
Bottom line, would I recommend the book? Yes. Do I recommend finding a teacher with block part sizes? Yes (and there are several out there) Do I recommend using EQ to draft for the perfect measurements? Yes Can you Paper piece every block? No, Is every block beginner level? Oh....*#&% NO!
So yes, buy the book, have it spiral bound and use it as a reference to lessons, if you are going to do this on your own with no help from anyone or any group, don't buy the book."
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The Farmer Wife Sampler Quilt Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird 9780896898288 Books Reviews :
The Farmer Wife Sampler Quilt Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird 9780896898288 Books Reviews
- Don't you love reviews? I look at them for almost every purchase that I make. You can always count on someone very easy and laid back to have a review, and you can always count on someone who is very picky to have reviewed something as well. That's the point. You read the reviews and you decide where your line is, the deal breaker, what you can accept and not accept.
With this book, I am with the laid back group. The book cover clearly states (maybe it didn't in previous additions?) that there is a CD with templates. I have experience with that, so when I got the CD and looked at the files, they were what I was expecting. Others say, "Well, there are no dimensions!" Well, it is explained in the front notes that the blocks are 6" blocks, so from there, I can get any dimension that I need. The instructions for the CD and templates explain how to use the templates and I have a ruler, so.... I guess as a new quilter I don't get what the fuss is about. Maybe I haven't quilted long enough to have higher expectations. I, in fact, appreciate that the templates are one to a page. I will trace off of these and keep the originals in a notebook. It just seems more organizationally sound to me to have one template per page. I have my own printer; most of you do as well, don't you? If Mrs. Hird had chosen to sell templates for these blocks, well, talk about added expense. And some of the dimensions would be so difficult to explain. I get lost in patterns that ask me to cut 15 2.5 by 8.5 inch strips, then cut 42 2.5 inch triangles using a specific angle cut ruler that I don't have. No, I'd rather have the template. There are some ellipsis in these patters that can only be done by pattern and maybe by paper piecing. I love paper piecing, don't you? Also, as one of those bothersome historian-type people, the templates are historically accurate to the time. How many of you remember quilt patterns in the newspaper or in a magazine. You had to cut out the pattern and make your own templates. SOMETIMES, you had to get your graph paper out and ENLARGE it!! I don't remember those, but I've seen them in back issues of newspapers at the library. There are 50 different ways to make one block. Every quilter is different. We all have different styles and ways of doing things. If you are a busy, exacting quilter, this may not be for you. If you are up for a fun adventure, then I think you'll like this. Most reviewers have agreed that it is a gorgeous book and it is a gorgeous book.
But, what I'd really like for you to experience is the letters. They are marvelous!! These women are serious, funny, strong, sensible and erudite. Oh, what dreams they had, not only for their daughters, but for their communities, and this country as a whole. In some ways, I feel like we've let them down, and I'm sorry. These women were the ones who raised the so-called "Greatest Generation" and they were strong and everything that we should be today. If you do decide to buy this book, and I hope you do, don't just rush into the quilting without reading the book. Take the time to read the letters of these remarkable women. Think about who they were and how they lived. I know as I make this quilt that I will be thinking of these women who lived simpler, harder lives than I have to live. I'm going to think about how they lived it with grace and strength and see if I can match their drive and determination while living my more complicated simpler life. - I was very disappointed when I received this book. There are over 100 templates required to make this quilt. The templates are on the CD which came with the book. However, each template is on a page by itself!!! This means you would have to print out over 100 pages. There are no patterns for foundation piecing or English Paper Piecing. There is a website that just started offering the pieces for EPP, but it will cost about $200.0l0 just for the paper pieces. If you plan on machine piecing this quilt, then the book is for you. However, if you planned on foundation piecing or EPP (as I did) then this book is useless.
- I would have given it 5 stars except the CD is worthless!
I have been quilting for quite sometime now and call myself an intermediate to advanced quilter. I have never made a sampler before and this one looked like it had a large selection of blocks (111 to be exact) so I bought the book and I had read that there were two versions, one with and one without the CD, I made sure I bought the one with the CD.
I, like everyone else, was disappointed to see that there was just one template per page, but knowing that I was not going to be using the templates, it really wasn't of to much concern to me, other than I wasted the extra money for the now useless CD.
I agree with everyone, there are no instructions to tell you how to put the blocks together, but if you study the exploded pictures, anyone should be able to figure out what goes next to what.
Now I am also an avid Electric Quilt user, I decided, because as everyone else has stated, there are no measurements for the blocks other than the unfinished size.. (This is where the beginning quilter would get lost, frustrated and passably loose interest in quilting all together!) I decided to draft each of the blocks in Electric Quilt so I had all of the measurements and I could play with fabric placement and all the other wonderful things that you can do with EQ. I was able to print out a picture of my blocks, in the fabrics that I chose and then using the book as a reference tool, figure out how to assemble the blocks.
As for the historical inaccuracies... not my thing, I just wanted to learn how create these blocks, now when they were 1st made and by who, but that's just me, but if you are into the historical thing, read the other reviews that address that issue and you decide.
Would I recommend the book? Yes
Would I recommend the book with the CD? No
The Yahoo group that is spoken about does have a document that has all of the templates combined on 15 sheets of paper, but it is in numerical order. You still have to print all of the pages to get the templates you need instead of making a grouping of templates for each block. Nice try.
With the EQ program, you can also use it to create paper piecing patterns, something that should have been included on the CD but was not.
Bottom line, would I recommend the book? Yes. Do I recommend finding a teacher with block part sizes? Yes (and there are several out there) Do I recommend using EQ to draft for the perfect measurements? Yes Can you Paper piece every block? No, Is every block beginner level? Oh....*#&% NO!
So yes, buy the book, have it spiral bound and use it as a reference to lessons, if you are going to do this on your own with no help from anyone or any group, don't buy the book. - I was never a very big fan of the "Dear Jane" quilt phenomenon. I looked at this book so many times and passed it over "for next time" and then when I saw people working on the blocks online, I really fell in love with this book. When I first got it, I read all the letters first. Its a wonderful history of farm life for women at the turn of the century. Most of the women seemed very happy with their lives and the writing is just really enjoyable. Then I enjoyed looking at each and every block. The fabrics that were chosen to make the blocks were so perfect. They were all reproductions and you could tell the artist knew how to work with this fabric really well. I've seen people make these blocks in modern fabrics too if reproductions aren't your thing. I feel fortunate to have included this in my library before the book went out of print.
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