Now for a quick tutorial on making your wacky farm blocks:

First, draw two lines vertically on the embroidered block on either side of the center embroidery; making sure the lines are straight but not necessarily perfectly perpendicular to the embroidered image:

Second, using the cow block as a foundation, place your seam of your border fabric, right side facing the animal block with the edge lined up with the line you drew and sew into place.  Do not worry about cutting off the excess yet and do not worry about having a border piece be the exact size you need.  Just cut about 4″ to 5″ strips of your border fabric.  Then press your border fabric out toward the edges of the block:

Third, draw two more wacky lines, this time horizontally above and below the embroidered center:

Fourth, using the same technique in the second instructions, sew and press your border fabric to the top and bottom of your block:

Finally, square up your blocks by cutting away the excess border fabrics and foundation embroidered block so they are all square (mine were 12 1/2″ square when finished).

To Win this Set of Eight (8) Custom Embroidered Blocks From Crooked Brook, please leave a comment with your email address.  Deadline is 5 pm CST on Thursday, February 9, 2012.