The Farmer's Wife block addition continues.....

You could say that I obviously haven't had enough to do at this time of year when everyone else is rushing around preparing for the silly season!! My excuse is that is it really my fault that I haven't had much proper work and also had such a bad cold and cough that for a few days or so (!) all I really felt fit for was sewing and whatever silly film was on C5 in the afternoon.

So I have been amusing myself doing variations of the blocks we have already been given in class. I think I am up to about 42 blocks now, so there is definitely another monster in the making. Part of the inspiration is that Graham has taken to wanting to choose colour combinations with me. That means that I end up with blocks that I probably would not have chosen myself but it seems that the beauty of these little blocks is that none of them is so different that you can't find a home for it amongst the whole collection. I am also constantly surprised at how different the blocks look with some simple variations.

So here they are:

 

Notice that there is only one each of Geese and Corn and Beans - those are blocks that I won't be replicating!!

I found a block called Card Tricks which I liked because it has a 3D effect until I realised just how many triangles and squares it took. Then I found a simpler version of it called Card Games in an older book by Janet Kime called Quilts To Share that I discovered through Silve. This time the pattern needed scaling down but then, I realised that FW template 4 (a little square) was just the right size for the squares and all I needed to do was double it for the rectangles and half it for the triangles. The corner triangles I created as I needed them and then ..... a bit later ..... spotty Card Games was born!

 

I really like this one ... I suspect it will spawn some lookalikes in due course. In the meantime I have found some more inspiration from a traditional quilt referred to in one of the US blogs I follow. I have captured pictures of half a dozen of the blocks that look at though they will fit into the Farmer's Wife universe - and using the same templates. So in due course, off I will go again.................!!

Happy sewing!!