And the winner of the charm pack is....
legato1958, Congratulations! Please email me so I can get your information.
legato1958, Congratulations! Please email me so I can get your information.
As promised, this week's block is the first block in the Farmer's Wife Quilt Sampler. I used scraps and charms that I had lying around and I was not disappointed.
As I looked for the block name called Attic Windows. I found many blocks with the same design and the same name but they did not look in any way like the one in the Farmer's Wife Quilt Sampler.
The above pattern is what I found in countless places and when these blocks are arranged in a quilt, well, they have that three dimensional look like you are looking out a window. Some of those examples are here.
This is the one from the book.
When I searched Attic Windows Farmer's Wife Quilt Sampler, then I got the samples below. Well, it's definitely a prettier window, I think.
I really like this one by A Cherished Life, that orange!
This is how mine began. Remember each block has templates that you have to print out one by one and NOT in order necessarily. First I chose some really pretty fabric, can't go wrong with that.
For the outer triangles, I just used a charm square and cut it diagonally in half, then trimmed as necessary. I kind of did the math except for the pink parts I used the templates for that and the red parts.
The one I made was perfect at 6 inches you can tell because there is a scant 1/4 inch at the triangle corners.
As you can see below, I had a little trouble stopping. I made several of them all day Saturday. Did I mention it was like therapy and free of charge?
**More measurement discoveries. If the block has "outside" HSTs (half square triangles) the corner seam allowances are lost when trimming to 6 inches. When I used the math method adding a 1/2 inch for seam allowances then the blocks equal 6 1/2 inches. The solution is to put all of those that are the same size in the same row of the quilt. ; ) Yes, and some blocks are troublesome so the templates are handy, I just feel like it's an extra step. But then you don't have to make 2 blocks because the size is not "fixable."
So tell me, are you in or out for the FWQA?
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ReplyDeleteI love this Attic Window. I will have to try making it...I do have the book. And I will do some of the blocks with you along the way... I have tons of scraps!!
Thanks for the giveway prize!
susie