The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired

by Laurie Aaron Hird

Be Inspired by the Stories

The 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 the 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008DVWOWA
• ISBN13: 9780896898288
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Krause Craft
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Download access = a CD Rom

It's 2022. When I buy a book with "download access" to the templates I'm expecting a website and code, not a CD Rom. I can't even open the thing. There are no measurements given in the book except that you're supposed to end up with six inch blocks. If the piecing diagrams in the book are traced directly you'll end up with roughly 3.5 inch blocks. It's all workable if you're familiar with how they made quilts in 1920 and fair to good at math, but I wasn't expecting that level of authenticity from the experience. Two stars for the slice of history provided by the letters from the farmer's wives, but there are dozens websites where I could have pulled this much information about traditional quilt patterns for free.

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

The narration is nice but please note there are NO measurements for each quilt block. Instead, templates on 106 pages are provided. At least 10 to 12 templates fit on one page but they chose to put each template separately. I think this is a major waste of paper. The templates also do not have measurements, of course.