Farming Duo Block Tutorial

When I was making my Farmer's Wife blocks, I would cut the fabric for a number of blocks for a week or more, and then I'd sit down and sew a few at a time.  One night I managed to sew the pieces of one block wrong and (I think) I invented a new block.  It seems about time to share a tutorial for it.

This tutorial will make a 6" finished Farming Duo block.

• Choose 3 fabrics for your block.  Cut (four) 2 x 3½" rectangles of two fabrics and (four) 2 x 2" squares of the third fabric and one of the first two fabrics.

 

• Draw a corner to corner line on the back of all of the 2 x 2" squares.

• Arrange the rectangles in an alternating pattern.

 

• Arrange the squares on the rectangles (right side to right side) with the drawn lines making a diamond shape in the center of 4 rectangles.

• Pin all of the square-rectangle pairs.

 

• Sew directly on the diagonal lines.

• Trim a 1/4" away from the sewn diagonal seams.

• Press seams.

• Match rectangles in pairs and sew.  Then sew two pairs together, and lastly, sew the final center seam.

• Press all seams and trim the final block to 6½". 

I hope you like it!

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Please let me know if you make a block with this tutorial.  I'd love to see it.