The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt | Feed Sack Fabrics & Fabric Choices

[@Kim-tl4wz]

Thank you so much for taking us down memory lane of stories we heard from our families. My great grandma lives during the depression and she had quilts that been covered and recovered and recovered with fabric as the fabric git worn out. Those were the best! So heavy that you felt comforted. It would get cold during the night but would be warm under grandma's quilts. ❤️

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I love the way you view those precious quilts, Kim!💕

[@homesteaderfiftywmartha603]

My favorite time in history . People were very resourceful!

[@dianawilson9326]

I, too, remember stories of the Great Depression from my mother and grandmother. The depression/feedsack reproduction fabrics are my favorites, I have quite a collection. I’ll be following this as it is right up my alley!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm so happy to hear that, Diana!

[@BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu]

I loved this video. One of my very favorite things is what I call “playing with my fabric,” doing just what you’re doing here-auditioning, choosing, planning. SEW much fun! Plus, I adore 30’s and feedsack reproductions. Thanks for this fun post!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Beverly! I use a lot of precuts where the coordinating is done for you, so sometimes I forget how fun it is to see what you can come up with within your own stash. When I don't have a project in mind, I tend to get a fat quarter or a half yard of a fabric I really like. When those fabrics "play" well with other fabrics I like, it's so satisfying! :)

[@cassieplayford634]

I just bought the book and will be watching your videos on this quilt! 💕

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Yay! I'm so glad you'll be watching, Cassie!

[@131dyana]

Loved all the beautiful material you received.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thank you so much!

[@SandyLancaster-q2m]

I have bunches of 1930's fabrics and The Farmer's Wife book. I want to give this a try! Thank you for the video, and I can't wait to see the next one.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I would love for you to join in too!

[@jancox399]

I’m excited to follow along and see the quilt that you are going to make with these beautiful fabrics! 1930s fabrics are my favorite! ❤️

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm so glad you'll be watching, Jan!

[@virginiacollis4580]

I was born during that era and my Mom used to make dresses etc for my sister and me. I remember her going to our local mill and getting the feed sacks while we anxiously waited in the car to see what she got. What a great memory. I've been wanting to make a quilt of feedbacks. Guess I should get on it now I know more is available. Thanks.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Virginia, I love hearing people's recollections from times I didn't get to live in. Thanks for sharing your memories!

[@kathykline3436]

I started making Farmer's Wife blocks several years ago. I need to get them and the book out from the closet and make a quilt! Thanks for the reminder!

[@CrisTheBeginnerQuilter]

Me too

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm happy if this inspires you to get that project out again. :)

[@nancysharon931]

So delightful hearing about your great aunt's telephone story. ❤

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@GrandmaD2024]

What a lovely idea! Those prints and solids are such beautiful colors! I use kona solids all the time! That will be so whimsical and lovely ❤

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm thinking this is going to be a beauty too! The colors are so fun together. :)

[@janemeyer794]

My son gave me this book! The letters are incredible. I'm so glad I found your series on this sampler. I'll be following!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Wonderful, Jane! Yes, the letters are so beautiful.

[@scarmack37]

What a great project. I am so happy to follow along.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm happy you'll be following! Thank you!

[@shaguirre]

Such a lovely video. I appreciate all your knowledge and emotional connection to the subject. Peace

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Ah, thank you so much!

[@magdaherbert]

I also have made several of the Farmers Wife blocks and really enjoyed picking fabrics for the different designs. I’m looking forward to going on this journey with you

[@aquiltingtale6230]

That's awesome you've made some! So happy to have you come along! :)

[@fatimalima542]

Love your inspiration for quilting and your colors are beautiful thank you for sharing 👍😊🕊🇵🇹

[@aquiltingtale6230]

My pleasure, Fatima! Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@annetteellis4188]

I just ordered the book and going to sew along with you. I love the idea of the farmers history of the blocks.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Awesome, Annette! Let's have fun!

[@teresajasmer1358]

VERY interesting! I do like all the color/ prints. I grew up in Otter tail Co. MN. My Dad is 96 yrs. Old. I will show him your video!❤ Thank you, Shalen!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Ahh, that's so sweet to share this with your dad. I hope you both enjoy it! I'll bet he has some great stories from growing up. So much changes in 96 years, I'm sure!🩷

[@suellencarey-clarke7917]

I have fond memories of dresses my mom made for me to start school in. Mom would tell dad how many matching bags she needed for whatever she wanted to sew. I am pleased to find your channel! I’ll be a regular…

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm so happy you'll be following! What sweet memories to have. 💕

[@Auntie7024]

Great fabric selection. This pattern looks like it will be a great project. I am excited to see your progress. ❤😊

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks, Auntie! I'm excited too! :)

[@stefwild3322]

Great choice of fabrics.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thank you! 🩷

[@LisaBreton-z5d]

Very nice selection!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks for watching!

[@amyarmstrong2376]

Hello! I just discovered your channel because I was looking for feed sack videos. I'm really interested in vintage/feed sack fabric. I just got the feed sack book for my birthday earlier this month. I'm really enjoying it. I love all the fabric you chose and also loved the story about your great aunt. I'm really excited to see your quilt.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm so glad you found my channel, Amy! Thank you for the kind comment!

[@jennrea4275]

So excited to hear of your project💕love the prints you chose. I spoke a lot with my grandmother of when she was a child and she told me about the first time she ever seen an airplane in the sky on her five mile walk to school in the prairies of central Alberta Canada. It must’ve been so quiet back then. One cannot help but feel, especially now that we would be smarter if we adopted the resourcefulness of the 1930’s era. Things were made to last. I too have the 1930 farmers wife book, at Christmas I was gifted the Farmer’s wife Homestead medallion quilt which is also by Lori Aaron Hird. (It was a good read as well)🇨🇦

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Your comment really got me thinking, Jennrea. Seeing an airplane for the first time must have been something, and yes, I bet it was very quiet compared to now. I think the resourcefulness of the Great Depression era is so admirable to me because I've only ever lived in a time of abundance, which I'm absolutely thankful for. But I think you're right about it behooving us to be more resourceful, as abundance and waste often go hand-in-hand.

[@teach672]

So pretty!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thank you! :)

[@lorettahenderson8979]

Thanks so much...I wore a dress made from feed sacks...best wishes❤❤

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thank you for sharing that, Loretta! Best wishes to you too!

[@rachelqstitches]

I love reproduction fabrics. I have a ton of the original Aunt Grace fabrics that I need to use I have the original FW book. I ordered it, so I think I’ll join you.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

That's so cool, Rachel! Yes, please join me! 🩵

[@frontofficed.burnell-power6288]

So fun. Thanks for sharing with us. Did I miss your finish on Sparrows? Not checking up on you....just making sure I am seeing all your videos.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

That means so much that you don't want to miss a video.🥰 I'm actually taking my finished Sparrows top to a long-armer tomorrow! I only made two videos for it. Once I get it back, I'll do a progress video of what I've finished and have been working on the first few months of the year. I'll be sure to show the finished quilt then!

[@malvina1952]

I bought the Farmers Wife book. My goal is to make every block in the book. I also love reading the stories in the book.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

That's a great goal! You'll have a beautiful project with those blocks, for sure. :)

[@May-su8xv]

How you put together your colors nice the book was interesting. But we all have fabric we’ve put together and I for one have read the book my question is what did you do with the fabric if anything how did you make it you own

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Those are great questions! So far I have been choosing a print and coordinating solids that compliment the color(s) in the print. I'll either match the print colors with the solids, or I think of the color wheel and do complimentary colors (red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple). So if the print has a purple background, I would use a yellow solid with it, for example. You could also stick to all cool colors in a block (blues/greens/purples) or warm colors (reds/oranges/yellows). I actually randomly picked up some fabrics that were next to each other after digging through my bag and really liked the combo of the three together because it reminded me of citrusy sherbet. They all happened to be prints, but I loved the three colors together so much, I made a block out of them and am so happy with the results! Ultimately, the charm pack I showed in the video focused my color palette, so I figure as long as my 30 blocks don't stray far from those colors, they'll all look nice together in the end. :)

[@rethalittle6347]

Would love to make a quilt from patterns from the 30’s !

[@aquiltingtale6230]

The Farmer's Wife blocks are great because the blocks are small (6 inches finished), but so are a lot of the 30s prints, so they still show up well in the small pieces!

[@manuelashannon1369]

I’m looking forward to this series. I have the book and have made a few. Be nice as a sew along. How often will you post?

[@aquiltingtale6230]

I'm glad you're looking forward to it and would love for you to sew along! I'm going to try my best to post every two weeks. With two kids and a full-time job, it's hard for me to post as consistently as I'd like to, but my husband is going to help me with these videos and he's eager to work on them with me. That should help me get this series out more regularly. 💕

[@DeborahCo-d2h]

I would prune out anything that has a bright white background. Kona snow was the background that goes with 30 s reproductions. Polka dots are also timeless. I would have said your yellow was a little too bright but to each his own .

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks for the tip about the Kona Snow fabric! I agree the yellow I chose isn't quite pastel like the other colors, but it was a good match with the yellow in the 1930s charm pack I brought in, so I'm going to give it a go! :)

[@MargaretMarscher]

I would love to make this sampler as well. Is there an option to make these blocks without paper piecing? I have never done paper piecing before. Will be following your progress. Love your fabric choices!

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks, Margaret! There are not other options explained in the book besides foundation paper piecing (FPP), but there are diagrams of the blocks. Some are just squares, half-square triangles, or could be done with a stitch and flip method if you wanted to try building the blocks yourself. I did that with one of the blocks when I first got the book and hadn't opened the CD that comes with it. Other blocks have uncommon angles that I would find difficult to replicate without FPP. I found FPP challenging at first because it felt backwards to me, but after doing a few, you start to get the hang of it and it goes pretty quickly. I hope my upcoming tutorial on how to FPP will be helpful and inspire you to try it. Either way, I appreciate you watching! 🩷

[@mariajosedeval3304]

🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍😃😃😃 María José 💖💖

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks, Maria!

[@marywoolley-nb7ct]

Hello from the uk. I am thrilled to have come across your YT channel. I am going to enjoy watching and listening all of your previous videos👏🏽 Random question- do you live on a beach as I can hear either water or wind while you are talking?

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Thanks for watching, Mary! So glad you found my channel! I do live near the water, but I don't think you can hear it from in my house. My guess is that it's the white noise/hum of my desktop computer, which is behind the camera when I film. I notice it too, but I'm not sure how to turn the white noise in the background down during editing without turning my speaking volume down as well. Sorry if it's distracting. I might try shutting down my computer when I film next time and see if it makes a difference. :)

[@marilyngandhi8571]

I found some feed sacks among my mom’s stuff after she died. She was born in 1923.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

What a treasure to find!

[@donnakluck9135]

I would not use 1930's fabric with your reproduction fabrics. My 1st quit I added a cute vintage fabric and it fell apart when laundered.

[@aquiltingtale6230]

You bring up a good point, Donna. Perhaps I'll test out my feed sack fabrics with some of my quilting fabrics in something small first, wash it, and see what happens before putting them in my quilt top. That would be devastating if I got the top quilted and then they came apart. I'm hoping the interfacing I'll attach to the back will give it the support it needs, but it would be wise to try it first on a smaller piece. Thanks for giving me something important to consider!

[@AnitaSouthall]

New subscriber, just found you. Love the fabric and history discussion. BEYONDAWESOMEDESIGNS 🇦🇺💜🇺🇲💚❤🇨🇦🪡🧵👍

[@aquiltingtale6230]

Welcome, Anita! So happy you subscribed! ❤️

[@MargaretMarscher]

I would love to make this sampler as well. Is there an option to make these blocks without paper piecing? I have never done paper piecing before. Will be following your progress. Love your fabric choices!