Farm Girl Vintage - Week 6

Hi Everyone :)

It's week 6 for Farm Girl Vintage Fridays.

I decided to make the Scrappy Haystack Sampler on page 133, because I have over a hundred Haystacks blocks that I've been sewing as leaders and enders.

The quilt requires 144 - 6" Haystack blocks, and 12 - 12" blocks.

I was on my way to sewing my favorite 12" blocks.

I quickly realized that it's a lot of fun participating in the QAL if I make all the blocks, so I'm also going to make the Farm Girl Sampler quilt.

I showed you Week 1 here.

These are the blocks from Week 2.

This is my Autumn Star Block.

Here's my Baby Chick Block.

I think she's really cute with the heart and her embroidered legs :)

Moving on to Week 3, here's my Baking Day Block, I love red and aqua in my kitchen!

This is my Butter Churn Block.

I'm also trying to use mostly Lori Holt fabrics.

Here is Week 4.

This Canning Season Block was really difficult to sew in a 6" size because the pieces were so little!

They look a little distorted, that's just because of my lack of "photo cropping" skills.

I have 2 jars of strawberries, one of cherries to make my husband his favorite cherry pie, a can of dill pickles, a can of orange marmalade made from our orange tree, and have you ever heard of canned cakes???

Here's my Chicken Foot Block.

I made this one a long time ago, when Lori was doing her Quilty Barn Alongs on her blog :)

Week 5 is my Churn Dash Block with a twist, a quilty little heart borrowed from the Baby Chick in Week 2.

I especially love this one!

The colors are bright and happy :)

Here's my Cool Threads Block, I'm not really crazy about the color I chose for the spools, there isn't enough contrast and it's a little dull.

I'm sorry for the puckers and the loose threads, but it's too late to take another photo.

I'm all caught up now, here's Week 6.

I love my Corn and Tomatoes Block, especially with the large "Sew Cherry" red gingham on the corners!

What a perfect name for this block, I had no choice but to sew it in red and yellow :)

Finally, there is the Country Crossroads Block.

These are all of my 12" and 6" Farm Girl Vintage blocks, so far.

Have you joined the Farm Girl Vintage QAL?  

It's so much fun posting on Instagram and seeing everyone else's blocks and how they've designed them :)

I'm beginning to wonder what I'm going to do with all my quilts?

I like to give them to family members, but don't really know if they need or want any more quilts.

I can't stop now, I have too much fabric in my stash, lol!

If you want to join the QAL, you can find the info here, on Lori's blog.

Farm Girl Vintage

This is my little 6" apron strings block.

I made it into a cute pincushion, just like Lori taught us on her blog, here :)

I made a 12" Apron Strings block, using scraps from my scrap bin.

I quilted my 12" block into a pretty table topper.

The orange back is so happy! 

The fabric is Lecien Flower Sugar.

I really love the Autumn Star block, I used  Lori Holt's Vintage Happy fabric. I didn't use her fabric, I bought some of my own, lol!

I also baked a chocolate mint cake for my grandson Bridger who will be turning 10 years old this month. 

I tried to make it as masculine as I could.

Do you think it looks suitable for a boy?

The backing fabric is by Michael Miller, but I don't know the name of the line of fabric because it was a fat quarter and there wasn't a selvage.

The little vintage bit is baking a cake with his puppy's help.

Here's a closeup of the jigsaw quilting, for the birthday cake banner.

I'm visiting my mom in Montreal right now, so next week I'll share some photos with you :)

Farm Girl Vintage Fever!

Have you heard of "Farm Girl Vintage"?

Well, I have the fever!  The Farm Girl Vintage fever!

If you are on Instagram, I'm sure you have caught the fever :)

The Farm Girl Vintage sew along begins on Friday, May 1.

I will be traveling that day, so I did some sewing of my own!

I've only shared one block (the 6" strawberry) on Instagram so far.

I'm hoping I can share them when the sew along begins and it will feel like I'm sewing along on that day too!!!

I forgot to mention that you can find the 
Farm Girl Vintage sew along  on Lori's blog here.

This is my Scrappy Strawberry block, a teeny little 6" one.

All the rest of the blocks are 12".

This is the Postage Stamp block.

I turned the Postage Stamp block into a Farm Girl Star!

This is the Milking Day Block.

The Milking Day block reminds me of my daughter Rebecca.

She owns 1/14th of a cow named Patience, and milks her once a week.

You can see the post I wrote about milking Patience  here...

Patience just birthed a bull calf.
 Here are my grandchildren, Maisie and Benjamin with him.

This is my Scrappy Strawberry block.

I really like using low volume backgrounds to mix things up a little,  and add more interest.

This is my Canning Season block.

This is my Baking Day block.

The spoon is backwards as compared to the pattern, but I made it my own :)

I love Jadeite bowls, and my daughter gave me a blue one which I love!

I put the red trim on the blue Jadeite bowl simply because I love the color red.

Cherries are my favorite fruit, I can eat them all day long...
This is the Pie Cherries block.

All of the blocks have such cute vintage farm names!

There are so many ideas for quilts to make in the book, and ideas of quilts to create :)

I've made so many Haystack blocks completed, when I sew using Leaders and Enders, that I'm thinking of making this quilt first.

It's kind of hard to see the whole quilt, but there are 4 Haystack blocks sewn together to make a 12" one.

There are 12 - 12" farm girl blocks sewn on the quilt too, tied up with block posts and sashing.  I only have to make a few more 12" blocks and then I can begin assembling my quilt!

I hope you buy the book and join the sew along, it will be loads of fun!

I'll see you in another week, yeehaw!!!