Product Description

Be Inspired by the Stories

In 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at that time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired.

Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt:

• 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with construction diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions
• Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king
• CD with easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams
• 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer’s Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country’s past

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16671 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780896898288
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Laurie Aaron Hird has been quilting for over ten years and enjoys working with reproduction and 1930s fabrics. Laurie and her family live on six acres in the country of southwestern Wisconsin, complete with animals, gardens, woods and orchard.

Customer Reviews

No instructions for the CD
I received this book yesterday after much anticipation and it is not what I expected. Unlike the Civil War quilt book, the patterns are not diagrammed full size and there are no measurements so it is impossible to make the blocks unless you get the templates from the CD. However, as yet I have not had any luck getting the CD to load. I cannot find any instructions on using the CD anywhere in the book. Also the paper used for the pages is not good quality in my opinion. That being said, this is a beautiful quilt and the letters are wonderful to read. I would still like to make this quilt but unless I can figure out how to load the CD, I will have to redraft every block! If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

Added 10-19-09
The CD is fine now thanks to suggestions from many people. It is not a program but just a file of the templates, one per page. Most of the blocks are very easy to redraft and that is what I am doing as I make the blocks. This is really a beautiful quilt and book. I do wish there was a file to print out ALL the templates on a few pages as this would save lots of paper. I also would have prefered the CD to include the full size diagrams of each block. That being said I would still highly recommend this book to any quilter.

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt
I LOVE this book. The stories are charming and I find the templates easy to work with. While maybe not a good choice for a first-time quilter (there are no instructions on how to assemble each and every block) I found it easy to put the blocks together (that I have done to date) based on the layout provided on each page.

I would highly recommend this book! Especially for those who enjoy piecing (hand or machine). This book differs from similar type books in that this is a book that you can piece together each block easily from the samples or with the templates rather than having to foundation piece the blocks to get them to work. This would be typical of the era.

I loved the fact that the quilt was pieced in reproduction fabrics!

Yes, I did find the fact that I could only print one template on a page a bit of a bummer, but that's a fix for further editions. It sure did make it easy to print templates quickly as each template was clearly marked.

Overall Satisfaction
Laurie's new book is delightful to look at and, the finished quilt is beautifl even though the fabrics do not reflect the era.

The biggest problem with the book no where does it state the actual size of the template pieces. All 106 templates are one to a page and therefore, you need to waste paper and ink to print these out. Laurie and the publisher should get on board with today's quilter. With effort and patience you could locate these public domain blocks in BlockBase and print from there.

I would hesitate to purchase another one of Lauie's book without seeing it in person.