Farm Girl Friday - Week Ten! ...

Good morning!

It's time for another episode of 

Farm Girl Fridays!

Today we are talking about my 

Gingham Block

This was one of the 

very first blocks to design

for the book…

gingham is classic farm girl style

and you all know how much I love my gingham:)

Someday I'll be making a big quilt 

just from my gingham blocks

but for right now…

I'm happy with my gingham runner!

I love how it looks on my table.

I made the centerpieces by painting 

4 large tomato sauce cans and 

then wrapping them in burlap and lace.

I put a vintage milk bottle in each can

and put daisies in each one.

A simple farm girl style project!

Instructions for my Gingham block

are on page 36 of my book

Farm Girl Vintage

If you want to join our sew along

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to grab a copy and get started!

I decided to make a cute little project

starting with the 12" Gingham block:)

A tip about choosing fabric for this block

is that you need to make sure that 

 there is plenty of contrast between

the two colors…

otherwise you will lose the gingham look:)

I started out by cutting 

the squares for the block

and then cut a few more to add an extra row

Making it a 14" block instead...

because I wanted to make a pillow and 

I already had a pillow form that size:)

After quilting…

I chose these two cute prints by my friend 

Pam's Pam Kitty Garden Collection

for the envelope pillow back.

I often use this method for the back of my pillows because

its easy to take the pillow form out…

And turn them into wall art!

These photos are from my book 

Great Granny Squared

and it includes instructions on 

exactly how I do the back of my pillows:)

I chose to use red for the binding.

I think it finished super cute and

 was super fast and simple to make!

I can also use it as a 

cute little table topper 

in my farm girl kitchen...

Or insert the pillow form and 

have a super cute pillow!

Every farm girl kitchen 

should have a gingham pillow:)

Next farm girl block 

for this week is on page 35 and is my 

Furrows Block

Another classic and super simple one.

I chose to make scrappy flying geese

and name the block Furrows

to represent the look of a pasture after

 it's just been plowed and ready for planting!

Last night I decided to whip up a few 12" Furrows blocks.

I grabbed my 3 1/2" scrappy stash basket

and quickly cut some geese:)

Chain pieced them...

And soon they were ready to be sewn into

Furrows

(background is Swiss Dots by Riley Blake in Navy)

I made 9 blocks and laid them out on the floor

for placement auditions.

Each block represents a plowed pasture.

I turned each block a different direction and 

now I have 9 scrappy happy acres 

plowed and ready for planting!

I could easily add more blocks to this quilt

but I just may stop here because a 

36" square quilt would be a super cute table topper!

Thanks for joining me for week ten

of my Farm Girl Fridays Sew Along...

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Now go put on some 

gingham and plow your fields!

xx

Lori