Monday, July 7, 2014

Farmer's Wife Redo

When I started my Farmer's Wife project I knew that there would be some blocks I would have to redo. Since I've been making at least two blocks a week and most weeks I've been making more after spending hours on these blocks only to get to the end and find they weren't perfect I knew that redoing the same day I messed up wasn't a good idea. I also knew that small mistakes that bugged me in the moment wouldn't matter after stepping away from the blocks. Last weekend I hit the half way point in my quilt. Okay so the research I've been doing has shown the setting I've selected might require 121 blocks instead of the 111 blocks so the half way point could still be 5 blocks away, but for now we're just going to ignore those extra 10 blocks looming on the horizon. The good thing about the setting I've chosen is I can add extra fabric to the blocks that aren't quite 6.5" so I only had to redo 5 blocks.

Century of Progress was one of the first blocks I made. I was never very happy with how the center looked so after joining the Yahoo Farmer's Wife group and getting access to the paper piecing patterns I decided to try this one again. I'm so much happier with how this block turned out. I'm even contemplating a medallion quilt and using this block as one of the rounds.


#18 Century of Progress

I probably didn't need to remake this one, but I wasn't happy with how the center lined up. It's not very noticeable in the pictures, but in person it stood out a lot.


#30 End of the Day

For some reason I swapped the color placement as I was working on most of these blocks. I'm really not sure how I chopped every single point in the block on the right, but I'm happy the problem got fixed in the new block. 


#80 Single Wedding Star

This is another block that probably could have stayed. I struggled so much with this block. The one on the right is actually my second attempt at it. It still bugged me that my geese looked a bit drunk so I gave it one more try. Not only do I have a flock of sober geese my block is exactly 6.5"!


I have one more to remake today along with this week's blocks. Since these are replacements the count is still 56/111. 

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10 comments:

  1. All the fixed ones do look better but I would have felt so frustrated having to repeat them! Your finished product will be spectacular.

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    1. Thanks. I think I would have been much more frustrated repeating these blocks if I had tried to do them the day I messed up. By saving everything for a dedicated day of fixing it wasn't so bad.

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  2. Wow, you are certainly committed to perfection. All those repeats, although I have got to admit they do look better. Well done you, its looking amazing.

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    1. I'm no where near committed to perfection. I think all of the blocks have minor errors. I've learned that if I let mistakes rest for a while I can live with most of them. These were the ones that were still bugging me and I know my eye would always go to these blocks when I look at the finished quilt.

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  3. Good for you! You'll be glad you've taken the time to do them over. I think everyone who makes this quilt does some of them over.

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    1. Thanks. I'm so much happier with these blocks. I think it's impossible to do 111 blocks (most of which are a bit challenging) and not have major mistakes on some of them.

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  4. I can definitely see the difference on the blocks. You did good! I would have wanted to re-do those, but I'm not sure I would get up the gumption to do it!

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    1. Thanks. It helped that I set aside a day dedicated for fixing. It felt much more productive to see all of the fixes happening at once.

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  5. You did great! The new blocks look fabulous and you were brave to re-do them. Your skills have definitely grown on this project.

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  6. Your black/white/gray color way will make a stunning quilt.

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