It struck me funny, as I've actually been thinking a lot about triangles lately. I've noticed that a lot of quilts I have made in the past have taken on similar triangular patterns - but I didn't know I was doing it at the time. I've also been learning a lot about the Pyramids in Egypt...(if you don't have the Gaia app and are looking for some interesting things to watch, I highly recommend it). And I even have a favorite tower that I drive by on the road from time to time that I like to call my "triangle tower" because of the way it has a bunch of increasingly smaller triangles all pointing up to the sky.
What can I say? It has three sides. Three is the magic number. Must be good. Ha!
Well I've also been thinking a lot about planting seeds and starting a garden too. So in looking for inspiration for this quilt, I thought I would check out my Farmer's Wife Quilt book, and I came across this little gem:
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| star of hope |
And then I quilted them, cut them in half, added some decorative stuff on one of the edges of each triangle, zig-zag stitched the edges, punched some rivets in them for hanging, and VOILA:
A fun little string of triangle flags full of stars and hope.
They make me kind of happy.
Another thing that makes me happy is the letter that goes along with this block in my book. You see, in 1922, a magazine called "The Farmer's Wife" had a letter-writing contest among farm women and asked them if they would want their daughters to marry farmers when they grew up. From my understanding, it was these letters that inspired the Farmer's Wife quilt. Here is the one that goes with Star of Hope:
I think it's just lovely.
And I suppose that is all for now.
Tah-tah!
xoxo,
erin
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