Farm Girl Friday - Week Nine!

Good morning cute people!

Welcome to week nine of 

Farm Girl Fridays:)

We have sewn 15

 Farm Girl blocks so far

and number 16 block is 

"Feed and Seed"

Grab your book 

and turn to page 30

for the pattern and instructions for 

both the 6" and 12" Feed and Seed block. 

I made so many quilts for my book

 and I just had to include a scrappy quilt

 with red gingham sashing.

After all...that just says Farm Girl!

I knew that my 

Feed and Seed block would 

be the perfect choice

and look great against my

 favorite red solid for the background.

("Pepper" by Riley Blake Designs)

The red gingham sashing is from

 one of my older fabric collections

called Polka Dot Stitches:)

I used a good mix of 

scrappy happy prints and colors...

And made 9 blocks

 for this quilt!

If you are wondering which setting I used…

turn to the Table of Contents on page 3 in my book.

In the section titled

"Mix and Match Setting Quilts"…

you will see listed the different settings

 that you can use to make your own unique quilts

 by putting in whichever of my 

45 farm girl blocks your heart desires:)

"You are the BOSS 

of your own QUILT!"

I used the Square Dance Setting 

on page 118 for this one:)

This quilt looks great in my kitchen!

Very Farm Girl Vintage:)

Next up is my block called

"Fresh Pears"

I LOVE pears!

We have a pear tree in our cottage garden

and I always look forward to

the end of summer when they are in season.

Our tree gives us plenty of 

pears to eat fresh

 and to bottle as well:)

I made a big stack of 12" blocks

because I am making a few pear projects:)

I made 16 total because I need 12 to make the 

County Fair Quilt Setting on page 112...

And I'm using the remaining 4 to make

 a pillow for the bench in my kitchen:)

I haven't decided how I'm setting the

 blocks for the pillow yet

but I'm sure that when I finish it 

I will be posting lots of pics on my

Instagram!

Thank you so much for 

joining me for this weeks episode:)

I am once again away at one of my 

Farm Girl Vintage Workshop/Retreats

but I prepared my post early 

just for you today.

I hope you are visiting the

 guest bloggers that

are posting each weeks blocks…

they are all making

 super cute blocks and projects!

CLICK HERE

and go see the schedule to visit.

Have a super fun 

Farm Girl Vintage kind of day!

xx

Lori

Farm Girl Friday - Week Eight!

Hello cute people!

Today is week eight of 

Farm Girl Friday's

If you are just joining us…

click here 

for my very first blog post about

our Sew Along:)

Every week we are sewing two blocks

from my latest book

Farm Girl Vintage

Click here

if you want to join us!!!

For this weeks blocks we are starting with

Farm Fresh Flower

Cutting and sewing instructions 

are on page 26.

This block is one of 

the easiest in the book to make.

Easy cutting…

Easy layout…

Easy construction:)

It would make a super cute 

super simple quilt.

Looky how fun it would be to add

borders around each block

and then just sew all

 of the blocks together!

I really like how a border 

 frames the flower.

Well I'll just go ahead and add that 

to my ever growing list 

of scrappy Farm Girl projects:)

So onto our next block…

Farmhouse

on page 27 -29

Here are a few of the blocks on my design board 

back when I was making the quilt…

That turned into this one.

Farmhouse Lane

on page 128:)

This is during the inside photo shoot.

We just hung up the quilt and I was

deciding what I wanted with it for the photo.

I chose to put some of 

my green depression glass:)

I also like how cute and tiny the 

6" Farmhouse block is…

The perfect size for little mini quilts

or my Farm Kitchen Potholders

on page 120.

When sewing this weeks blocks

please use the hashtags

#FarmFreshFlowerBlock

#FarmhouseBlock

and 

#FarmGirlVintage

Click here

 to see the schedule of

 this weeks guest bloggers:)

Thank you so much for sewing along with me!

Right now I'm at my second week of 

Farm Girl Vintage Workshop/Retreat

but once again…

I pre-posted this for you 

just to keep us on schedule!

Until next Friday…

Have a Farm Girl kind of day!

xx

Lori

Farm Girl Friday - Week Seven!

It's Farm Girl Friday.

YeeHaw!

Today I am out of town

 on my Farm Girl Vintage

Retreat/Workshop

sewing all kinds of 

fun farm girl things 

but on Tuesday before I left…

I prepared this post  

just for you! 

Grab your book and turn to page 24…

Where you will find the instructions for my

 Egg Basket Block

I love basket blocks and I especially love

 the triangle trim on this one.

I have made so many of 

these baskets with different fabrics…

and I love them all!

I think just a whole quilt 

of these scrappy baskets 

would be so fun

to display in the spring:)

Here's a quilty idea

close up...

I love it!

I originally designed this basket way back

during my Quilty Barn Along

And it ended up in this gray gingham barn.

CLICK HERE

to view that tutorial

and see my step by step photos:)

The block ended up in my 

Silo Barn Quilt

on page 92 of my book.

Our next block for this week is 

"Crops"

Found on page 23

I love this block in different colors…

But when I designed it for the book

I also knew it would 

look great in scrappy greens...

And fit perfectly on the bottom of my

Sunny Sunflower 

Farm Girl Block

on page 66!!!

We won't be doing that block

 for a while

in our sew along but

 I just had to show you what I did!

I used all of these fabrics

 to make a new (and secret) project for 

my Farm Girl Vintage retreat that 

we are all working on today.

I will be sharing that 

project here with 

all of you next month…:) 

I just love how these 

two blocks go together…

#FarmGirlFlowerBlock

An entire quilt of these would be super adorable too!

I have so many ideas and

 never enough time to sew them all:)

Don't forget to visit our 

awesome guest bloggers this week.

CLICK HERE

for the schedule.

I can't wait to see 

this weeks blocks up on my 

Instagram 

In order for me to see them

(and others)

Please use the hashtags;

#EggBasketBlock

#CropsBlock

#FarmGirlVintage

and of course

#FarmGirlFridays

Now go gather your eggs

 and plant your crops!

xx

Lori

Introducing the 2016 Cozy Cottage Calendar - Quilt Patterns Included!

I've been working 

on a new project with

 It's Sew Emma

and I'm so excited about it:)

It's the very first 

Bee in my Bonnet calendar!

It's called Cozy Cottage

and features photos taken inside

my own vintagey style 

cozy little cottage:)

Here's a sneak peek of January:)

My cozy cottage is where

 my family lives

and also my studio …

 where I do all of my creating:)

I have included the pattern 

to my Cozy Cottage block

(in two sizes)

and also the pattern 

for this mini quilt...

And my Cozy Cottage pillows!

I have used my latest 

fabric collection called 

Modern Mini's …

To create the quilt and 

all of the pillows:)

Modern Mini's 

will be arriving at 

quilt shops this week!

My calendar is a 

limited edition publication 

and will be available

in August/September.

Wouldn't it be fun to 

get some early 

Christmas shopping in too!

It's available for 

pre-order now at 

Fat Quarter Shop.

Click here 

to pre-order yours

and receive my new

Modern Mugs pattern for free

(it will be shipped with your calendar)

And for those of you

 who have been asking…

YES!!!

There will be a 

Cozy Cottage Sew Along

this fall:)

YaY!!!

See you back here on Friday:)

xx

Lori