Best-selling author
Laurie Aaron Hird
of
The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt
shares the next installment of this beloved series.
A few years before Ada Melville Shaw's death in 1937, she wrote—and
The Farmer's Wife
magazine published—a seven-part series of articles about her homesteading adventures. It is this series of articles that come to life in
The Farmer's Wife Homestead Medallion Quilt
.
Master of traditional quilting, Laurie Aaron Hird has used Ada's writings to inspire the 120 classic quilt blocks that surround a stunning center medallion. Full instructions for sewing this queen-sized sampler quilt, featuring 64 six-inch and 56 eight-inch blocks, are included.
templates for paper-piecing and rotary cutting are provided in a ready-to-print, easy-to-download PDF, available through url provided.
Travel back with Laurie and Ada to 1910s Montana where a homesteading pioneer woman inspired a contemporary quilt for the modern age.