Farmer's Wife Friday-Progress Is Our Watchword

Century of Progress and Hovering Birds are the two blocks accompanying the farmer's wife's letter this week in the Farmer's Wife Quilt-along. The author, from Montcalm County, Michigan tries hard to convince her readers that "The farmer's wife does not have a monotonous life. Every year, every season, every month, every week, every day, every hour she has something different to think of, so her mind ought not get rusty."

 Apparently, she has been told that her city sisters have pity for her and she asks her fellow farmers' wives to straighten their backs, throw up their heads  and shout, "Don't pity me!"

 Lastly, she announces, "Progress is our watchword, so watch out, for we're going on as fast as we can. This world must be made safe for the farmer's wife. Let's-start-now!"

 In the same vein, I can attest to progress made on putting my blocks together a little more safely this week by, again trimming down larger half-square triangles for the one, and using paper-piecing techniques for the other.  Here's how I made my world safer for creating  the Century of Progress block.....photo copy machine, rotary cutter and ruler, plus glue stick .......

 They all came together to make the 8 segments used to make up this block of odd shaped triangles.....

 Add in some strips of fabric in three contrasting colors and an altered color placement....

 Paper-pieced and joined together to create a block that went together relatively painlessly.

I hear the farmer's wife say, "We are no longer hayseeds. We are of some account now, so we are glad, glad, glad to work." Hopefully, like me, some of her work involved creating some fun quilt blocks like these! Cindy's blocks look fun as well....check them out!