In The Boon Docks

  Week 5 Hello Everyone! I was really running late in week 4, I have it written but I don't want to get further behind! . Sorry, I didn't get my post up! I really enjoying the linkups each week and she is going to start doing giveaways! So many beautiful blocks in all kinds of fabric combinations that you can view if you join the Facebook Group or follow the link to the Link Up Party. There will be (4) weeks over the next year when I will be a Blogger of the Week. Week 5 - Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Sew-along Link Up Party - GnomeAngel . This week tutorials and From Marti Michell Quilting Blog: Chart 9: Granny, Farmer's Wife 1930s Sew-along , From Marti Michell Quilting Blog: Chart 10: Jenny, Parallelograms 101 , conversion charts were released for blocks 41 and 45. I have linked to each Blogger's Farmer's Wife post so if you need the tutorials later they will be here. The Bloggers for Week 5: Peta of She Quilts Alot - Farmer’s Wife 193...

The other day I made a list of In The Boon Docks: Tools In My Toolbox - FPP and today I will show you what I use each for when doing FPP. If I am printing a digital fpp pattern from a CD or off the internet on my home computer to my printer I use Carol Doak's Foundation PaperC&T Publishing #10985 (it is thinner) and then other times I print on out of a magazine and I use copy paper.   Clover Regular Wonder ClipsClover #3156 to clip the pieces together. But you could use a large paper clip. The pattern below shows you light/dark but the patterns we are using in the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt are not. To give you an example of what to have on hand find some colored pencils or crayons and mark your blocks to remind you what fabric goes in which place. Honestly, most of my mistakes happen by sewing the wrong fabric in place. Giving each fabric a color and marking each block is worth the time. Better than ripping seams out. Sewline Fabric Water Solub...