Sunday, December 13, 2020

Farmer's Wife - Blocks 7 Birds in the AIr - 13 Buckwheat (Lucky 13) - 19 Checkerboard

 

 Block 7 - Birds in the Air

NOT paper-pieced.  Multiple Half-Square Blocks.  Most of the points came out sharp -- although I see 1 that got nicked off. 

"Lots of sh**in' little pieces" this week, as my Gramma would say, which means extra time to execute.  Up at the ironing board and down at the sewing machine for every little seam.

 

 

Block 19 - Checkboard

Paper-pieced. Scrappy blues and 1 lovely green.

This one went pretty well for paper-pieced.

 


Block 13 - Buckwheat (Lucky 13)

Paper-pieced.  This one must have taken about 4 hours to make.  The colors are not quite where they are supposed to be.  Those dark blues should not be next to each other.  As I was transcribing the color scheme I'd settled on, I must have inverted some of them.

 This block was a royal pain.  I flipped a few things, had to unsew more times than I care to admit because the piece to be flipped up wasn't big enough to cover the area it was meant to,or things were just backwards and upside down. A very frustrating block.  And for all that, not worth doing over again.  I'm not that much of a perfectionist!

      

One neat thing about it is that it looks like a different block if you turn it 90 degrees.

Completely different look and feel with those dark blue points pointing up and down vs. east and west.   Something to do with the flow of this block.

On to next week ... 

Tutorials from Handmade Karma for Week 13.

See Handmade Karma's full set of Farmer's Wife blocks and tutorials.

 

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