I'm a farmer's wife

Yep, you've seen it on many of your favorite quilting blogs, I have too.  And I've been sucked in, big time.

What am I talking about?  The Farmer's Wife Quilt along, of course!

 

(Thank you Monica for the awwwesome button)

I had the book on my wishlist for a couple of weeks, and my in-laws gave it to me on my birthday last weekend.  (Thank you in-laws!)  I'm already a gonner.

Angela and Amanda are to blame for starting this highly addictive group, and all my twitter peeps are guilty of sucking me in.  The quilt-a-long is following along the Farmer's Wife book and doing a couple of the 110 six inch blocks each week. Since I'm starting on week 3, I made 6 blocks over the weekend.  

 It was hard for me not to keep sewing, stay up all night, and make 20.  But one reason I am doing this?  To take my time on a project.  I don't usually do that.  Typically, I start a quilt and sew my guts out until the binding is stitched on. This will be a nice change of pace.  

I'm using my scrap stash, which mainly consists of Bliss and Ruby, but will be mixing in some other scraps as well.  I noticed my stash seems to consist mainly of 4 colors.  (Any guesses?)

Block 1

 

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Block 5

Block 6

So, what do you think?  Do you want to become a Farmer's Wife?  If you are already one, or joining now, let me know! I'd love to keep up with you and your farmer-ing.  Wifeing?  Maybe we should just stick to saying quilting...

Maybe quilt-along-ing?

Hmm... I'll have to think about this.

After I finish one more block.

This is super addictive...