Farm Girl Friday - Week 14!!! - New Companion Patterns Too!!!

Good morning cute people!

Today is not only the last day of July…

but it's also week 14 of our

 Farm Girl Friday's 

sew along…and I'm having so much fun:)

So grab your book and let's get started:)

If you need a copy…

click here

Turn to page 48 where you will find 

the instructions for our first block

Old Red Barn

Even though I already put two other barn blocks in the book…

they were larger and I needed to 

add a 6" and 12" size to play with and

 also for the sampler quilt!

I chose to use a quarter square triangle block

 for the door to imitate the "X" on a traditional barn door:)

In the book I show you my easy peasy method

 for making these quarter square triangles.

 It's my favorite way and always scrappy fun!

Next block up is 

Old Glory

on page 47

You know that I am proud to be an American

 through and through and so of course

 my Farm Girl book would not

 be the same without Old Glory…

farming is rooted deep 

in our American heritage:)

So today I have a

big surprise for you:)

Even though you already have 

a good amount of  

Farm Girl blocks in

 the book to play with…

(45 total to be exact)

I have a few more to 

add to the pile 

if you want them!

Meet Penny Pig!

I designed this new block last month

(along with several others)

for my students in my three consecutive 

Farm Girl Vintage workshops last month.

We had so much sew much fun 

with these new companion blocks

and I had so many requests for patterns 

from those of you who did not attend

my workshops.

So this week we have two of them ready

(Penny Pig is the first)

as a PDF pattern available at

Fat Quarter Shop

CLICK HERE

if you would like to make Penny

and add her to your Farm Girl Vintage block collection!

I have given cutting instructions for Penny in 

both 6" and 12" sizes just like in the book:)

Here is the second companion pattern that 

I designed for my workshops…

 Apple Picking!

I made this Apple Picking quilt that finishes

at 48 1/2" square

which is a perfect size 

for the farm table

in my kitchen this fall!

and of course…

 I used red gingham for the border!

The pattern is for the quilt…

the 3 different apple blocks…

in both 6" and 12" sizes:) 

CLICK HERE

if you want to pick some apples!

These are Kimberly's 6" blocks

for this weeks Farm Girl Friday.

She made them with my current fabric collection

Modern Mini's:) 

When you add yours to social media-

please use the hashtags

to join in on the fun and

so that we can see them!

#OldGloryBlock

and

#OldRedBarnBlock

Of course Kimberly also made a 6"

#ApplePickingBlock

and

#PennyPigBlock

I can't wait to see yours!

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to see this weeks schedule to visit 

our cute guest bloggers!

P.S. I want to show you the quilt

that I made using Penny Pig and

 3 other Farm Girl Blocks from my book:)

I used my Farmhouse Lane setting

on page 128 of my book.

Instead of making nine 12" Farmhouse blocks…

I made nine 12" Penny Pig blocks.

Then in place of the six

 tree blocks in-between the houses…

I used 6" Sunny Sunflower blocks

and 6" crops blocks.

When you sew these together they 

measure exactly the same size as the trees:)

This is a progress photo 

in my studio back when I was 

 auditioning the placement of the blocks.

You can see that my book is opened 

to the Farmhouse Lane quilt page for reference…

along with other 

random quilty things in the background:)

I made sixteen of my 6" Apronstrings blocks 

and made the rows in-between the pigs and flowers

instead of the sixteen Welcome blocks

that I used in the Farmhouse Lane quilt.

All borders and sashing measurements 

are exactly the same as in the book…

nothing different at all…

just substituted different blocks.

Here it is right before quilting...

And here it is after

 the cute swirly quilting 

(but no binding yet)

at one of my workshops.

I'm peeking at you

 from behind the quilt

 along with my super

 cute quilty peep Shanna:)

I have several more companion blocks

 and patterns to be released 

after each of my 

Farm Girl Vintage Workshops 

this year and I can't wait 

to show you 

each and every one of them!

I'll have all info about them 

on my friday blog posts here...

and as always

I always have lots and lots 

of sneak peeks on my

 Instagram!

click here to follow me:)

I hope you enjoyed 

this weeks episode of 

Farm Girl Friday

Tune in next week 

for more down home fun!

xx

Lori