Farmer's Wife - Blocks 108 Windmill - 17 Cats & Mice - 81 Snowball

 

Farmer's Wife - Block 17 - Cats & Mice

I really like how this one came out, even if those hour glass blocks didn't stay where I put them!

We started with oversize hour glass blocks with the idea that we'd cut them down to the required size.  All fine and dandy in theory!

Tutorials from Handmade Karma for Week 5  [Yup, I'm doing them out of order, but I think I'm back on track now].   See Handmade Karma's full set of Farmer's Wife blocks and tutorials.

Here's the back of the Cats & Mice block, so you can see the paper piecing.  

Looks very orderly, doesn't it?

Farmer's Wife Block 108 - Windmill

This one was paper pieced, but otherwise a pretty simple block to render. 

 

Farmer's Wife - Block 81 - Snowball

This one was NOT paper pieced, but simple enough to make the half-square triangles and piece it together like "normal." 

Started out with 1x 2-1/2-inch square for the center.

4x 2-1/2-inch squares for blue center blocks

3-1/2 inch squares (2 blue; 2 white) to make the HTS in the corners.