The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt Coloring Book: Color 70 Classic Quilt Designs from Your Favorite Sampler Collection

When quilting meets coloring, beautiful things happen!

The nostalgic beauty of Laurie Aaron Hird's bestselling Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt series has been captured in this commemorative coloring book designed around time-honored blocks and inspired fabric motifs. Laurie's traditional blocks, inspired by actual letters from 1920s and 30s farm wives, give quilters a glimpse into this country's rural roots and commemorate the strength and hope of women of the Great Depression. These coloring pages depict many of the same beautiful blocks reinterpreted in line-art illustrations, creating coloring pages to delight quilt-lovers everywhere. Also included are 7 patchwork designs that capture the American quilting spirit. The perforated pages include highly detailed fabric designs to color, offering you the simple joy of creative expression.

Laurie Aaron Hird is a wife, mother, homemaker and author. Having home-schooled her eleven children, she doesn't just know quilting and embroidery, she knows coloring. Laurie, her husband and younger children live on a small acreage in the Wisconsin countryside. She is the author of three books: The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt (2009, KP Craft) The Farmer's Wife Pony Club Sampler Quilt (2011, self-published) and Farmer's Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt and is currently working on The Bible Sampler Quilt Book (BIH 10/14/16) Laurie has a blog where she posts letters and photographs from her extensive collection of Farmer's Wife magazines. She has been a guest on the PBS television series, "Sewing With Nancy.".