My Finished Farm Girl Vintage Quilt

Finishing My Farm Girl Vintage Sampler Quilt!

Farm Girl Sampler Quilt   made by Susie's Sunroom

At Bee In My Bonnet Blog

Yippeee!  I finished sewing my  Farm Girl Vintage Sampler Quilt this past week!

What are the ingredients for making this fun quilt ...and having a marvelous time  sewing , learning and improving my techniques ?

The Book:  Farm Girl Vintage   by Lori Holt   at  Bee In My Bonnet blog

                                                     

****   This book is excellent... with exceptional directions and diagrams !        I highly                                      recommend it!****                Thank you, Amy!!

                     My Fabric:    

Fat Quarter bundles of 30's Playtime Favorites  and Aunt Graces's Classics

Kona Cotton   Snow  -  background
Line Dried  Flowery Check in Shamrock for outer border
Back and Binding-  Canopy  Rose  by Timeless Treasures  "the pink/rose checks"Happy Go Lucky    Bonnie and Camille   Moda
Aunt Grace Classics    Judie Rothermel  
Aunt Grace Christmas  Judie Rothermel  
Hannah Bella   by Robyn Pandolph  SSI
DS Quilts Collections    Denyse Schmidt
Lazy Daisy Baskets Small    Darlene Zimmerman  Robert Kaufman
Paula Barnes  Marcus Fabrics
Mirabelle  Fig Tree & Co.    Moda    charm packGinghams  from my stash

   Stash  ***   anything that reminds me of 1930's fabrics, small flowery prints, or  make- me- happy prints!   ( I am not excluding anything that makes me smile!)  And I am "finding" charm packs I have hoarded  lovingly stored away!
Batting-  Warm and Natural

Happy Note:  The binding and backing gingham fabrics are a "SCORE !" for me....
Shortly after I learned to sew bags and totes, I went to a fabric store and found a great deal... I bought a whole bolt of this rose colored Timeless Treasures gingham.  I didn't realize how much fabric 11 yards is!!!!  I have looked at that bolt for years and years ... and finally found a good way to use a lot of it!!


How to do it:

 Read the book,   Sew two blocks a week, and look at everyone's beautiful and creative blocks on  Instagram!  #FarmGirlFridays    Measure carefully,  cut wisely and mix up all the fabrics!!

The Result:

Farm Girl Vintage Sampler Quilt   by  Susie's Sunroom
a 59 " x 73 1/2 " quilt

Quilt Stats:          Size  59 " wide  by 73 1/2 " tall
                          Flying Geese:   102 in the border
                          48 blocks at 6 " square size
                          Thread:  Aurifil # 2026    Cream
                          Quilting:  FMQ in the outer border
      I used a basic leaf and stem design in the wide outer border,  for texture
      I used a large zig zag stitch for quilting in the sashes around all of the blocks and the flying geese borders  ( using my walking foot)

And here is the Back of my quilt:

The Backside of my Farm Girl Vintage Sampler Quilt
These barns are also in the book!!

I decided to make the back "another mini quilt" from more of the Vintage Farm Girl patterns!
I made two each of the larger (14 inch) barn blocks... Silo Barn and Quilty Barn,  and added animals to each barn (6 inch size).    I just love this design!  The 9 patches were so fun to make for the borders.

** Animal block notes:   The Pig is a newer design, not in the book, but avail at the Fat Quarter Shop  {here}
                                   This  patchwork cow is designed by The Patchsmith, and is avail at The Patchsmith Pattern Shop  {here}

How fun to use black gingham in this sashing!!  (on the back)

I also made a British Union Jack block...   and put that on the front of the quilt.  (It is another The Patchsmith design. )
                  

 Union Jack block by The Patchsmith   available {here }

"Hey Mom!  I found a thread here!"  

I got a great tip from my friend, Geta, from Geta's Quilting Studio {here}:
Use washable magic markers to mark the design for your FMQ.  (Test it first!!)
This gave me some more confidence to try to do the free motion quilting in the outer borders.

You can see the FMQ  Leaf and Stems on the border.  And the zig zag stitches
 in the sashings

I am lucky to have the room  to put a few tables, plus my ironing board, together to create a larger surface to keep my quilt level while sewing.  This is how it looked:

After washing the quilt  ...  it left a nice crinkly texture to the border !  I thought this design would fit in nicely with a Farm  themed quilt!

The borders were FMQ with a leaf and stem pattern

I'll close with more photos of the quilt.

                                                 

 Lori Holt has already created a Barn Cat to add to the farm.  You know I'll want to make that!  

" There must be a cat SOMEWHERE in this quilt...." 

I will miss making the weekly blocks from this Sew Along.  And,  I will definitely make more projects from this book! 
That's what I call a successful project!



Linking up at:       Can I Get A Whoop Whoop!  @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict    and

                         And Sew We Craft Together  @ And Sew We Craft      and
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I'm off to my sewing room!

"Mooooo-ore " Farm Girl Vintage Blocks

Moooooo-ore Farm Girl Vintage Blocks Made

Lori Holt's Book "Farm Girl Vintage"
Sew Along here

I've been keeping busy sewing a couple of Farm Girl Vintage  blocks every week.   This is such a scrapy, happy project!  I have been making the smaller, 6 1/2 inch , size blocks, and enjoying every minute of it.
(You can see them as I make them:  on my Instagram-   @SusiesSunroom on your IG app or at the instagram button on the right of my blog page. )

Here are my latest Farm Girl Vintage blocks:

Out to Pasture Block:

Patchwork Pumpkin Block:

Peas and Carrots Block:

I added yellow , like Lori Holt put in  hers,for some yellow squash

Pie Cherries Block:

Pinwheels Block:

Postage Stamp Block:  

This picture is closer to the true colors

Scrappy Maple Leaf block:

Scrappy Strawberry Block:

The little squares in the pumpkin , postage stamp and strawberry are  just 1 1/2 inch in size!

Oh, and there's one moooooooooo-re block I want to share with you...  

It's a Patchwork Cow Block,   designed by Amanda, The Patchsmith!  { here }
She just knew our Farm Girl Vintage quilts needed a little cow block, too !

Patchwork Cow Mug Rug   Design by The Patchsmith
photo courtesy of The Patchsmith

Isn't her Daisy cow so cute! Amanda's directions tell you exactly how to make a 6 inch block, or a 12 inch block , or this adorable mug rug!!

After I got my Patchwork Cow pattern,  I decided that I wanted to make my cow a " purple cow."  (Technically , she is purple with orange spots.  I think she is a  Holstein cow.)

Did you learn the little "Purple Cow" poem when you were young and first learning about the beautiful imagary of poetry?


The Purple Cow                          by Gelett Burgess        published in 1895 (Wikipedia)

I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!

I think these two will get along fine!

I am beginning to think about the sashing , borders and the  backing for the quilt finish!
I can't wait to see them all together.  

I'm off to my sewing room!

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Pillows

Barn blocks and more Farm Girl Vintage Blocks

Sewing up 2 blocks every week
 with Bee In My Bonnet on #FarmGirlFridays

I have so enjoyed making a few blocks per week, along with the sew along at Bee In My Bonnet's Farm Girl Fridays!  We use the book , Farm Girl Vintage , by Lori Holt.  I just love these patterns!!

The Old Red Barn Block   Farm Girl Vintage book

Last week, we had a family reunion.  I was in the middle of making some of the barn blocks, and had an idea to make a pillow as a thank you gift  for my aunt and uncle.   ( My aunt and uncle live on a farm, and have hosted reunions for many years in the past.  We all watched our first Evening Primose open up to bloom, before our very eyes, at a reunion in the year 2000. Many of us now continue to grow these ugly weeds, that create a beautiful and delicate  yellow flower. The Evening Primrose has become the unofficial symbol of our reunion. )

Evening Primrose blossoms from my back yard... they only last one evening

This is the pillow that I put together with a barn block from the Farm Girl Vintage book:

Silo Barn Block  and an appliqued Evening Primrose blossom

I used some black denim for the back.  And the Covered Zipper back  ( using Amy Made That! 's  easy tutorial!  { Get the tutorial Here}

The Covered Zipper Backing 

My pillow beside the Evening Primrose blossoms from the night before.  They will be gone by afternoon.

Isn't this a fun barn block?

I also made a second larger barn block...the Quilty Barn Block:

   by Susie's Sunroom

I like this red ticking fabric.  I tried to make it look like barn boards.  (It was a scrap that found a home with me!)    I looked around and found a paper pieced pattern  that looks like a Evening Primrose.  { Claudia's Quilts blog- Flower Power block 3 )  And that's a   FGV Milking Day block beside it!   This will be made into a pillow for me!


I also made two pillows for another two special aunts, who have hosted past reunions, and arranged for the revival of the 2015 family reunion.  They live in historical towns, so I made them a tall house block to go along with their Evening Primrose blocks.

Evening Primrose pillows      by Susie's Sunroom

I have more Farm Girl Vintage blocks to add to my finished block page (in my Flickr Group .)

Apron Strings block:

Autumn Star block:

Baby Chick block:

Baking Day block:

Butter Churn block:

Canning Season block:

Chicken Foot block:

Churn Dash block:

Cool Threads block:

Corn and Tomatoes block:

Country Crossroads block:

Crops block:

Egg Basket block:

Farm Fresh Flower block:

Farmhouse block:

Feed and Seed block:

Fresh Pears block:

Furrows block:

Gingham block:

Grandma's Quilt block:

Haystack block:

Kettle's On! block:

Kitchen Window block:

Mama Hen block:

Milking Day block:

Old Glory block:

Old Red Barn blocks:

Out to Pasture block:

Patchwork Pumpkin block:

Here's the connections for my blocks:   My Flickr Group { Here}
                                                        #FarmGirlFridays
                                                         #FarmGirlVintage

I hope to work on finishing up the quilting on a baby's quilt this weekend!


Linking up at:     Can I Get a Whoop Whoop! @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict  and

                                Fabric Frenzy Friday @ Fort Worth Fabric Studio

I'm off to my sewing room!