Farmer’s Wife QAL Block 4

It’s time for the Farmer’s Wife QAL Block #4!

This one is called Buckwheat and is #13 in the book

This block is interesting as you have to sew it together diagonally.

I used the 6″ QUBE for this whole quilt, the blocks will be 1.5 times the QUBE size so 9″ in my case.

You’ll need die #4 and #6 (the on point square)

With die #4 cut out 8 in black, 12 in Light Blue and 8 in Medium Blue

With die #6 cut out 2 in black and 2 in Med Blue

If you don’t have a QUBE set, just follow along in the book and make 6″ blocks.

Because this block is a bit tricky or odd, I like to lay out all the pieces in the block like this and then sew the pieces together.

The middle squares can be sew together into twos, the top left and bottom right triangles can be sewn together and then all the black and light blue triangles like they were HSTs but they are not, so again it seems a bit odd, but it works!

Then I laid them out again

and then sewed diagonal rows together, there’s 2 of each row, so the other half of the block is actually flipped!

and Voila here’s block #4 or 13 in the book, the Buckwheat block!

The letter that accompanies this book (and other blocks) talks about a hay ride, have you ever been on a hay ride? I have done stuff here in the US with my kids like to a pumpkin patch, but I doubt that’s what the book means. I do remember going to a friend’s house and playing in stacked hay in a barn and sliding down the hay, ALSO in Denmark we lived in the country when I was teenager, I think we moved there when I was 10, anyways, to heat the house we had to use hay, a barn was filled with hay from top to bottom, then there was a furnace in another room and a sort of huge vacuum thing and I’d help rake hay/straw into it to fill up the furnace, I remember HATING it and not doing a good job, my dad eventually hired a teenage boy to come do it.

If you make this block or made any of the previous ones, link up below!