farmer's wife in your life tea towel

Friendship Star

I have made several quilt blocks from the book

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird.

My sweet mother was a farmer's wife in Oklahoma.  Laurie's book is full of wonderful letters from farmer's wives telling their story about life on the farm, along with wonderful quilt blocks to make a Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt.  

I am using Summer House by Lily Ashbury for Moda to make my blocks. 

I decided to use one of my quilt blocks to decorate a simple tea towel for 

Sunni's Farmer's Wife in Your Life --Link Party.

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First I ironed the quarter inch seam allowance around the quilt block.

Then I machine stitched the block to the tea towel using some green thread.

I added hand stitching in bright green and blue crochet thread, and some white lace.

The Friendship Star is one of the first quilt blocks that I learned to make years ago.

I have more tea towels to play with, don't you think these would make cute gifts! 

piece,

elizabeth

I am linking up to Sew Modern Monday and Fabric Tuesday.