Quilt Notes: Two versions of FARMER'S DAUGHTER are illustrated in Rhoda Ochser Goldberg's QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, with full graph and piecing diagrams. It was published in 1922 by the Ladies Art Company, according to Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS.

The quilt column by Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 21, 1934, traces the design back to Ohio in the 1850s, and described as "a beautiful coverlet pieced in colors of soft lavender, gold and white; all colors most expressive of a quiet, sensitive person." For "sensitive" designs, compare at this site with BIRDS IN THE AIR, also HOMESPUN BLOCK and DANCING CUBES.