Farm Girl Friday - Week 2 -Simple Farm Girl Pillow and Scrappy Happy Hearts Mini Tutorial!

Good morning and welcome to 

week two 

of  

Farm Girl Friday's!

Brought to you by 

Bee in my Bonnet

and

Farm Girl Vintage

Today I have a 

few more things to 

show you that you can

 make from my book.

But first let's talk about

 which Farm Girl blocks 

that we will be 

playing with this week!

We will have two 

from now on and

 first one up is

Autumn Star 

on page 9.

As I told you in my last week

I'll be making 6" blocks

from my upcoming 

fabric collection

Modern Mini's

This is my Autumn Star:)

I also made a 12"

Autumn Star block.

I'm using 

Feed Company by Sweetwater...

And making another 

Square Dance Quilt

from page 18.

I'll be making the

same version

as this one...

 I'll be sewing each 

farm girl block

that goes in 

the Square Dance

mix and match setting

 as we come to that

 particular block

 during our sew along:)

The other block is of course

Baby Chick

on page 10.

Here's my 6" 

Modern Mini's block:)

This is my Farm Fresh

mix and match setting

on page 108 of the book.

I love the sweet yellows

paired up with the pinks.

I think this would be

so fun for a baby girl quilt:)

After I made my 6" block

I decided to 

whip up a 12" Baby chick block

and make it into a 

quick and easy pillow:)

I'm showing you 

how I made my 

Simple Farm Girl Pillow

 just in case

 you want to make one too!

After I sewed my block

I cut 2 - 2 1/2" x 12 1/2" 

strips and sewed to the sides.

Then I cut 2 - 2 1/2" x 16 1/2" strips 

and sewed to the top and bottom.

I ended up with a 16" square.

I marked the lines for embroidering

and decided to do them by machine 

instead of by hand …

just to show you another option.

I used brown thread

(to match the beak)

and did a small zig-zag stitch.

I set my stitch width at 2 

and 

my stitch length at 1

 on my Bernina.

I also backstitched 

where I stopped and started.

I quilted my pillow top…

but my picture turned out fuzzy:)

For the back of my pillow

 I cut 1/2 yard of fabric in half…

so basically I used 2 fat quarters.

I folded them each 

in half with 

wrong sides together

(18" tall x approx 10"wide) 

and pressed them like this…

folds meeting in the center.

Overlap the folds over the center

 of the quilter pillow top.

Your back should be

 larger than the pillow front

all the way around.

Pin into place.

Flip over and sew 1/4"

from the edge of quilted pillow top... 

Remove pins and trim backing even with

the front of pillow edges.

Now you can turn it 

right side out through the

 pocket opening in the back.

Use the opening to insert

a 16" pillow form.

I put the pillow in my

 sunny cottagey kitchen.

Now it's keeping 

company with my 

"Sew Hexie Cushion"

This Simple Farm Girl Pillow  

will work with any

of my 12" Farm Girl Blocks:)

If you make one…

use the hashtag

#simplefarmgirlpillow

After I finished with the pillow…

I thought it would be fun to sew a

 "Scrappy Happy Hearts"

mini using my heart pattern

in the Baby Chicks block… 6" size.

It finishes at 10" x 10" 

I cut the strips for 9 hearts

 from my scrappy stash…

and from background I cut:

36 - 1" squares

and 18 1 1/2" squares

for the easy corner 

triangles on the hearts.

For sashing I cut 6 - 1" x 2 1/2"

for in-between the hearts

and then Cut 2 - 1" x 7 1/2"

for in-between the rows.

Then I cut 2 - 2" x 7 1/2"

and sewed to the sides and 

2 - 2" x 10 1/2" and 

sewed to the top and bottom.

Then I layered it with

 batting and backing

and quilted it.

I cut 2 - 2 1/2" strips of

 red gingham for the binding.

Now I have a cute little

"Scrappy Happy Hearts"

 mini to add to my collection:)

I hope you make one too!

If you do…

use the hashtag

#scrappyhappyhearts

on all social media:)

READY-SET-SEW!!

P.S.If you don't have time to sew

with us today…

no worries!

You have the whole week

to catch up.

The most important thing is

 to have fun with it …

no stress allowed!

Hashtags are important!

When you use them…

 your post will go on 

the same page as everyone else's.

That way we can all see it

and know you are 

part of our sew along! 

 So when you finish your blocks…

don't forget to use the 

hashtags

#autumnstarblock

#babychickblock

and always

#farmgirlvintage

This past week I have loved 

seeing everyones

 #apronstringsblock 

on the hashtag page

on Instagram:)

So many adorable

 scrappy happy fabric combinations!

Keep up the good work/play:)

CLICK HERE

to see the remaining schedule

 and list of our guest bloggers

for this week…cute stuff!

In other Farm Girl Friday news…

I'm happy to announce that

Kimberly has listened to

 all of your requests

to cut more of the

Farm Girl Vintage FQBundles.

YeeHaw!!

Isn't she awesome?

They will be available at

Fat Quarter Shop

in a few weeks:)

Click Here

to be notified by email

as soon as they are ready!

Thank you Kimberly:)

Thanks "sew much" for tuning in for  

week two of our sew along!

Until next week…

have a quilty kind of day!

xx

Lori