Farmer's Wife Blocks 38 Four Winds - 68 Postage Stamp - 106 Wild Rose Square

 

Block 68 - Postage Stamp

No paper piecing this week! Yeah!  Just a lot of little squares.  Tedious, but not unpleasant.  

On Friday after work, I needed a break, so I started picking bits and colors from the scrap pile and cutting them into 36 separate 1-1/2 inch squares for the postage stamp block.  It came together faster than you might think.  When it came to stitching it all together, I did it by chain piecing and then nesting seams to keep things reasonably square, and limit the wonk factor.  It went better than I thought it might.  ;-)

 

 

Block 106 - Wild Rose & Square

The hardest part was cutting the squares an odd-ball size: 1-11/16th inch.  When it came to trimming the HSTs, I finally cut a square to the correct size and used it as a template.  It was too hard to line up that odd-ball in-between (just a hair past 1-5/8) measurement on the ruler.  The template worked better for me in that respect.  

 

 
Block 38 - Four Winds

I will admit that when I saw this block, I considered skipping it.  Just "too many sh**n little pieces," as my Gramma would say.  But when you break it down, it's just squares and half-square triangles.  Tedious, but not impossible, and not unpleasant to work through.   But it took a while.  

The light blue and the purple were the abiding colors in the blocks this week.  No greens (not counting the postage stamp scrappy block).   

 

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