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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along Finish from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome back to Melva Loves Scraps and the final instructions for the Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along.

Layout your blocks in an arrangement, as you desire. I chose to keep the blocks in the order of the books... 1 through 9, in a way that the log cabins formed furrow rows diagonally. If you want to choose to change the order (or layout) for any reason that's up to you.

Cut five 2-1/2" wide strips of a background fabric. Join strips together to be able to cut 2 strips 48-1/2" long and 2 strips 52-1/2 ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Prairie Rose - Block #9 from Melva Loves Scraps

We have nearly reached the end of the journey with Laura and the Little House Sampler Quilt. The writing of book The First Four Years is in a very different style - in the third person. It was an unfinished piece found amongst other papers and documents in the late 1940s. After Laura's death in 1957 it sat hidden away until after Rose's passing when it found its way to Harper & Row.

The scene from prologue tells of how the night was sweet with the strong, dewy fragrance of the wild prairie roses that grew in masses.

Laura was ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Heart Block - Block #8 from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome back! This week's book is #8 of the Little House series - These Happy Golden Years... the story of Laura and Almonzo's courtship and marriage. Laura was not yet 16 years old when she took a teaching job 12 miles from home.

Pa was driving her to the small, drafty shanty she was to be staying in when she asked, "Do you think I can, Pa?" Pa replied with encouragement... "Of course you can. You've never failed yet at anything you tried to do, have you? You've tackled every job that ever came your way. You ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Kitten in the Corner - Block #7 from Melva Loves Scraps

Thanks for coming back to the Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along! Block #7 of 9 represents book #7, Little Town on the Prairie. The long hard winter was finally over, and the people of DeSmet were interested in getting out and began social life again. They held church socials, dances and "literaries." The Ingalls family had moved from town to their homestead claim, the garden was growing and, after spending the winter together in tight quarters, the entire family enjoyed the extra space the homestead offered, as well as the opportunity the get outdoors.

Pa had planted corn, but ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Snowflake - Block #6 from Melva Loves Scraps

I am so pleased that you have come back for another "Chapter" of the Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along! If you're new here or just learning of the sew along, every two weeks I release a new block pattern for the Little House Sampler Quilt. All of the previous blocks can be found at the tab above labeled Little House Sampler Sew Along.

Book 6 of the Little House series is The Long Winter. The Ingalls family is in De Smet and have claimed their homestead. The winter they endured in the previous year was mild, though they ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Rails - Block #5 from Melva Loves Scraps

Thanks for coming back for another chapter of the Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along! This chapter of the sew along is all about the book By the Shores of Silver Lake.

The Ingalls family had many challenges while in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt because of the grasshopper invasion destroying their crops. Mary was now blind. Pa had to leave his family for work in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as $50 a month. He sent for his family. They traveled by train to meet him. They became the first settlers in the new ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Shoo Fly - Block #4 from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome back to the fourth "chapter" of the Little House Sampler Sew Along! The 4th book in the Little House series is On the Banks of Plum Creek. When the Ingalls family was forced to move from the prairies of Kansas they headed north to Minnesota.

They first lived in a sod house until Pas was able to build a clean new house beside Plum Creek. Pa purchased the materials on credit with the intention of paying off the credit with the fall wheat harvest.

Just before the harvest, a strange glittering cloud suddenly blocked out the sun. Millions of ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Harvest Basket - Block #3 from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome back! It is time for block #3 of the Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along.

Book #3 is the story of Almonzo Wilder's childhood. Unlike the other books, which follow Wilder’s own life growing up on the American frontier, Farmer Boy tells the childhood story of Almanzo Wilder, Laura’s future husband. Set in 1866 in upstate New York, this book offers a vivid and detailed look at what life was like for a prosperous farming family in the post-Civil War Northeast. Farmer Boy is structured around the calendar, offering readers a month-by-month account of life on ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Native Star - Block #2 from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome back to Melva Loves Scraps and the Little House Sampler Sew Along. The second book of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series is probably the most popular, favorite and familiar to LIW fans, thanks the television series... Little House on the Prairie.

The adventures of the Ingalls family continue as they leave the little house in the big woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of Kansas Territory. They were feeling settled with the completion of a cabin and small barn. They were planting and plowing, hunting wildlife and gathering grass for the animals... and ...

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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Maple Leaf - Block #1 from Melva Loves Scraps

Welcome to Melva Loves Scraps and the Little House Sew Along. The first block is the Maple Leaf block representing the first book of the Little House series - Little House in the Big Woods.

In the Big Woods book we are introduced to Laura's family - Pa (Charles), Ma (Caroline) and their children - Mary, Laura and Carrie. They lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin in a little gray house made of logs. Laura said there were no other houses or people that lived nearby in the woods... only wild animals such as bear, huge wild cats, muskrats, mink and ...

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