Livro/Book: The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

Há dias descobri uns blocos de patchwork enquanto navegava no Pintrest e ao seguir os links encontrei este grupo no Flickr o qual tem como objectivo completar os blocos existentes no livro The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt. Resultado: Encomendei o livro!!! (que por acaso chegou no dia do meu aniversário - belo presente, não é?). Podem ler um pouco da história por trás deste livro aqui.

A few days ago as I was wandering around Pintrest I found some adorable patchwork blocks and through the links I got to this Flickr group which goal is to, week after week, complete all the 111 blocks in the book The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt. As a result I had to buy it!!! (which arrived  on my birthday - what a nice present, wasn't it?). You can read here a bit of the story behind this book.

No início dos anos 20 a perspectiva da vida no campo não era a melhor e de modo a contrariar esta opinião, a revista "The Farmer's Wife" lançou o desafio e pediu às suas leitoras que respondessem à seguinte questão "Permitiriam que as vossas filhas casassem com um agricultor?". Havia prémios para as melhores respostas e houve 7000 cartas recepcionadas na sede da revista, das quais se publicam neste livro alguns excertos. As cartas vencedoras estão na base de inspiração do quilt deste livro.

In the early 1920s the perspective of a life in the country was not the best and in order to proof that that was not right, "The Farmer's Wife" magazine asked their readers to answer the following question "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in the light of your own experience, want her to marry a farmer? ". There waer 7000 letters received and a small part of it received several awards. This book has some of this letters which were the inspiration for the quilt shown in this book