Mon Oeuvre ~ Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt progress: Block #5 Anne

It's been awhile since I've looked at the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt I'm doing, May, to be exact. Time sure flies. It was fun to sew with my 1928 Vintage handcrank Singer again. This is the machine that I've designated to use for this quilt.

Anyway I looked and saw that I was on block #5 "Anne". I printed out the foundation paper piecing (FPP) pdf templates and the Gnome Angel tutorial. I then chose the fabrics and began cutting and attempting to FPP according to the piecing template. I ripped out my stitches a few times as I saw that I wasn't getting the pattern to look the same as the finished block in the book, but I just couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. I thought, I'll just do it this way and at least it will be done but my brain wasn't satisfied with it so I decided to do some studying. I remembered that on the previous blocks I'd  had difficulty with the "mirror image" concept that goes with foundation paper piecing, so I studied the tutorials and info. yet again. I gave it another try and remembered how to do it. after I sewed my fabric onto the paper, trimmed and flipped it horizontally, each "triangle
 wedge template did match the finished block in the book!

The photo below shows my "take two" version. The pattern is correct in this one. Tada!!

The photo below shows my "take one" version. As you can see the "pinwheel" in the center is different from the second version. I also had to sew around the squares in this version as the seams wanted to come apart.

I didn't want to do a "take two" as the first one was so trying for me, but I'm glad I studied the technique and figured it out. I'm very pleased with my "take two" version!

Cranberry lake kayak

We haven't been kayaking much this summer, so we made a plan to paddle Friday. When we got up it was a bit windy. I don't enjoy kayaking when it's windy, so we planned to go to Whidbey Island's Cranberry lake.

We got lucky, just a breeze when we started that died down as the day went on.

It was in the low 70's, a perfect day for an early fall paddle. The ocean is just around the corner from the lake and it was strange to hear the surf crash on the shore as we started. There were a few lily pads around the lake. 

I took a few photos as we made our way around, so you can enjoy the view I had. 

In the photo below I'm looking back towards where we had come from.

The lily pads were beginning to die back so they were beginning to shrivel up and had a brown cast to  them 

My husband spotted an Eagle in a tree top.

Here he is just a bit zoomed in, if you still can't see it you can zoom in a little more.

I love Madrona trees and was happy to see it's red bark on the shore.

A closer view of the Madrona tree.

I really enjoyed our paddle, the air was warm and the lake was like glass.

Garmin stats:

total miles - 3.55