Vintage Block Along - Block Four - Little Farmhouse Block Tutorial!!

Welcome to another episode of the

 Vintage Block Along 

I have another vintage block 

from my grandma's basket

 to share with you today:)

I call it "Little Farmhouse" 

after my grandma's house of course!

I made the window in yellow because

 grandma always kept the 

front light on for us:)

Here's the photo of her 

little farmhouse that I 

showed you in the last post.

There are a lot of colors to choose from in my Farm Girl Vintage fabric collection...

And I chose these colors because 

they were 2 of her favorites.

Grandma had a turquoise and pink kitchen.

(she also had a pink sofa and 

deep turquoise chairs in her front room.

The chairs turned all the way around

 and us kids would spin in them

 until we either got sick or 

grandma finally told us to stop:)

I loved her house and everything in it!

She had the entire set of

 Turqoise Butterprint PYREX 

and she used them everyday.

She also used these pink

 Melmac dishes everyday as well.

I look at these dishes and think 

of her cooking...her Sunday dinner 

potatoes and gravy was the best.

She made the best sandwiches 

for lunch and always cut mine in half 

on the diagonal 

(half square triangle lol)

 and and then put it on a pink plate:)

Grandma was of course a farm wife

 so she canned and preserved 

everything that she could.

She made the most amazing sweet pickles

 at the end of every summer.

She had to keep them in big 

old pottery crocks and do 

something different to the 

pickle water every day.

I remember helping her rinse them...

those crocks were big and heavy!

It took about 2 months and they

were the crunchiest pickles ever.

When Mr.Honey and I got married...

 she soon found out that he loved them

 and then every year she gave him

 a jar at Christmas time.

Grandma had a Shawnee Pig Cookie Jar 

that Uncle Bruce gave to her.

 He was her oldest.

Mr.Pig lived on the counter next 

to the fridge and every one

 of us grandkids knew it!

She was the typical grandma who always

 had it filled with  homemade cookies.

Most of the time they were her 

banana cookies and she always frosted them.

Grandma loved rhinestone 

pins and she wore

 one pretty much every day.

She especially loved to wear them 

to reflect the season or the holiday.

I like to wear one once in a while

 because it makes me think of her:)

I remember picking one out every now 

and then while we were shopping downtown.

 Mom and my 3 older sisters often went shopping with grandma.

We would go to ZCMI 

(her favorite department store)

And then look for fabric and

 sewing patterns.

We would eat lunch there too:)

We listened to records 

while we were at Grandma's.

 She loved beautiful music and

 she even had some 

silly songs that we 

loved to listen to such as  

"Who Threw the Overalls 

in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" 

by Bing Crosby

lol

(I may or may not just googled 

it and I'm listening to it now)

Here are the Farm Girl Vintage prints

 that I chose....and here is 

the vintage block pattern...

originally called House on the Hill

 and is 12" x 12" finished.

You will need a background

 and 5 other fabrics.

From the background cut:

4 - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

1 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

2 - 2" x 2 1/2"

Fabric One: 

1 - 3 1/2" x 12 1/2"

Fabric Two:

1 - 3 1/2" x 4 1/2"

2 - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

2 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

1 - 2" x 2 1/2"

Fabric Three:

1 - 3 1/2" x 9 1/2"

2 - 2" x 2 1/2"

Fabric Four:

1 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Fabric Five:

1 - 2" x 2 1/2"

Use these two 3 1/2" squares 

to make one half square triangle.

Mark a line or use the 

Seams Sew Easy Guide

If you want to know how

 I put it on my machine...

CLICK HERE

Set it aside for later 

when it's completed:)

Use these two 3 1/2" squares

 to make an easy corner triangle

 onto each side of the roof.

Make sure that you sew them 

going the right direction.

It should look like this.

These are my 1 1/2" squares 

from the trimmings:)

It's time to put these in the bins...

the scrappy square drawers are getting full!

Pair up these smallest rectangles

 and sew them together...  

for the window and the chimneys.

Now you can lay your pieces out 

into 4 rows like this...

And sew them together.

Sew the four rows together 

and you have a pretty 

Little Farmhouse Block

with a flower garden in front!

The back of my block:)

I just love this block and it's 

super easy and quick to sew together.

Here are the first four blocks 

and I am in love with how 

they look together...

just hangin out in all of their

 vintage block glory!!

If you missed the first three 

vintage block tutorials...

or want to know more about this 

Vintage Block Along

click on these links:

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