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!