Farmer's Wife—a Challenging Week 4

Okay. This week's blocks pushed me a little!

First, "Birds In the Air." The piecing wasn't terribly challenging here, but all those tiny pieces and the insane amount of seam bulk on the back did cause problems for me. Even pressing seams open, my block isn't lying totally flat and some of the seams are a bit wavy. Also, I wish I would have picked more contrasting fabrics. Note to self: Next week's blocks should really pop!

Second, "Bouquet." Definitely the toughest block I've tackled so far. Has anybody been rating the difficulty of these? Because I would love to know how this one stacks up. It really doesn't look like it should be that hard, and there are plenty of blocks that appear to be much more complicated than this one! In the end, I think my block looks pretty good—corners are relatively lined up, nice straight seams, etc., right? Well, it better be, because this was the second one I did! The first one is so eye-searingly bad, for a variety of reasons, that I debated not posting it at all, but in the interest of keeping it real, I'll go ahead and show you. Are you ready?

Yeah, I know, right? This has to be one of the worst things I've made in a long while. And I wish I could tell you what went wrong here so you could avoid it, but I have no idea myself! This block actually turned out too large, so I seriously debated just trimming it down, but the fabric choices are pretty poor also, so I decided to scrap it and just start over, LOL. The second time around, the block came together beautifully—no clue how or why it turned out so much better, but I'm not complaining!

Fortunately next week's blocks look much easier. : ) Whew!