Farmhouse Lane quilt is quilted!

I finished my Farmhouse Lane quilt, by Lori Holt!

I have been wanting to make this quilt since 

Lori's book "Vintage Farmgirl" came out.

I'm pretty excited about how my machine quilting turned out.

I machine quilted swirls with petals.

I used the same fabric for my binding 

as I did for the little pink border.

I used a crosshatch machine quilting pattern for the border.

Unfortunately, I was trying to sew one direction

and then tug at the quilt and pull it so that 

I could go the opposite direction.

I didn't realize it, but by tugging at the quilt, I bent something on the needle shaft and had to take it in for a $150 repair!!!

It usually costs $120 for a Bernina update, oil and clean, etc,

but this one cost more.

On the bright side,

 it was repaired in two days instead of two weeks!

When I was sewing the crosshatch design on the border,

on my newly oiled, cleaned and repaired machine,

I just went one direction, cut the threads and

moved it over 1 1/2" to sew the next line.

I bought this fabric about 3 or 4 years ago, and it's very pink, 

not the corral that it shows in the photo.

My next quilt to work on at Farm Girl Chicks,

is the Scrappy Haystack Sampler quilt.

I've got all the Haystack blocks sewn, just

need to sew 13 12 l/2" blocks from the book

Farm Girl Vintage.

Thanks for following :)

Quilt Top Finishes

Here is my Stellar Star quilt.

I love all the jewel toned colors.

The blocks and the flying geese are all paper pieced.

Each of the large (12") blocks had about 24 pages of instructions.

Needless to say, this is an advanced level pattern.

I used fabric from my stash which makes me really happy!

Since I've been going to Farm Girl Chicks, 

about a year and a half, 

I've been working on this Farmhouse Lane quilt.

I finally finished it, yay!

I tried something new, I taped the back fabric to the floor.

It was so much easier the straighten the batting 

and then gently lay the quilt on top.

I safety pinned all three layers together.

I dont think ther are any creases in the quilt back.

 I've been spending my free time machine quilting my

Farmhouse Lane quilt.

I'm excited to see the quilt finished!

Thanks for following along :)

Farmhouse Lane quilt, under construction

If you have been following along on my blog, you know that we are moving, a half mile down the street, twice!

We are moving in with our son and his family this week.

Our new home build will be finished the middle of September.

We moved to Arizona a year ago, I met my friend Nedra, 

and joined Farm Girl Chicks.

At our Farm Girl Chicks quilt group, we can only work on Lori Holt projects, that's the rule!

I began my work on Farmhouse Lane, the quilt pictured below.

Here's my stack of "welcome" blocks.

I seem to only be able to sew two of these per meeting.

Between sharing time, laughing and lunch, just two blocks :)

Last meeting, I didn't go out for lunch and was able to sew four!

I have 14 blocks made, only 2 more to go.

Before I attended my first Farm Girl Chicks meeting, I cut all of my blocks out and labeled them, clipped them with a clover clip and tucked them into a ziplock bag.

Each clip holds a "welcome" block in one bag and the background squares with another clip in the other bag.

I have two left and plan to finish them tomorrow at my meeting, 

on my birthday :)

Each of these ziplock bags represents a farmhouse.

I've made 5 and have 4 to go.

Unfortunately, the other farmhouses are packed...

Lots of people ask me how long it takes to sew a quilt.

I've never calculated, but I know it takes hundreds of hours!

According to my calculations, if you sew two blocks every two weeks, it will take a year and a half to finish this quilt.

Have a great week :)