Random Farmland Blocks

 

Several of my readers asked me what I was doing with the batik fabric strips that I was cutting back here:

http://quiltedtimeposts.blogspot.com/2014/03/cutting-cutting-cutting.html

The strips are the makings of more random farmland blocks.

I started making these about a year ago but became stuck when my project got too large for me to manage.

Fortunately, Suzanne threw down the gauntlet and announced the challenge for us San Joaquin Valley quilters at the 2014 Best of the Valley Quilt Show. It was just the opportunity I needed to make a smaller version of where I was going with the larger project. I was able to solve some construction and design problems on “Fields of Bounty”, which I posted here:

http://quiltedtimeposts.blogspot.com/2014/02/fields-of-bounty-2014.html

Now I have more confidence and enthusiasm for finishing the larger version.