Vintage Block Along - Block 12 - Sweet as Honey!!

Good morning and welcome to the

 Vintage Block Along

Today I'm sharing another vintage block

 from my grandma's pattern basket:)

I'm using my 

Farm Girl Vintage fabric collection ...

And my Bee Backgrounds fabric as well:)

 If you are just joining us 

and want to sew vintage blocks with me...

click on each block 

that we have already sewn

 for the tutorial:

1. Grandma's Star

2. Pattern Basket

3. Around the Corner

4. Little Farmhouse

5. Rhinestone 

6. Vintage Lily

7. Star Shine

8. Humble

9. Egg Money

10. Quilting Bee

11. Sunday Star

Today's tutorial is going to be 

"short and sweet" because I am 

packing my bags and heading out to 

Nashville the cross stitch market.

YaY!

But before I leave I wanted to 

do another block for you.

This popular vintage block that we 

are making today is traditionally

 called Shoo Fly.

As I was thinking what to call mine

 and what it had to do with grandma 

(besides being in her pattern basket) 

...it made me think of 

 something that she said often.

 What she used to say is ...

"You can catch more flies with

 HONEY than with VINEGAR!" 

Meaning of course...

that you should always be 

as sweet as honey if you

 want things to go right!

It's always better to be kind.

One of life's great lessons...

my grandma was a smart lady:)

 I'm calling my little blocks 

"SWEET as HONEY"

These little cuties will finish at

 3" x 3" when we sew them into the quilt.

They are super easy to cut and

 to stitch up and you will need to

 make 10 of them:)

I'm still not sure how many blocks

 we are doing but I am not ready 

to wrap it up yet because there are 

"sew many" great block patterns

in grandma's basket:)

I hope you are simply 

enjoying the journey with me and

 not worrying about the end result because

 it will be taken care of in time:)

I've paired up one print with 

one background to make the blocks.

For ONE block you will need to cut:

From the Print- 5 - 1 1/2" squares

From the Background - 8 - 1 1/2" squares

I'll walk you through one block first:)

Grab the 5 print squares and

 just 4 of the background squares...

And sew them into a 9-patch like this!

Then take the remaining 

4 background squares...

And add an easy corner triangle

 onto every corner:)

Either mark the lines or use my 

Seams Sew Easy Guide

If you want to sew 

how I put it on my machine 

CLICK HERE

All sewn...

and ready to trim.

Press and you have a 

cute little easy peasy block...

SWEET as HONEY

Of course you could make 

four half square triangles first 

and then sew them all 

together into a 9-Patch.

I think because they are 

1 1/2" squares and small...

that's a little too fiddly 

when it's just easier to

 add the easy corners at the end:)

Repeat for the other 9 blocks.

First make them all into 9 patches.

Add the easy corner triangles...

trim...

And press!

I really do think these little blocks are SWEET as HONEY!

They should each measure 

3 1/2" x 3 1/2" BEFORE 

we sew them into our quilt 

that we will be making 

at the end of this sew along!!

I promise it's going to be so cute:)

Thanks for sewing vintage with me today!

Tune in next week for 

another episode of the 

Vintage Block Along:)

xx

Lori

P.S. Some of you may be wondering why

 I am going to cross stitch market.

Did you know that I am 

designing cross stitch patterns too?

So far I've done:

1. Happy Farm Girl

2. Farm Girl Fall

3. Vintage Christmas

4. Quilters Cottage

Right now there is a stitch along

 that Kimberly over at Fat Quarter Shop 

is hosting called the 

Quilters Cottage Stitch Along

CLICK HERE

to find out about the stitch along 

and the weekly giveaway 

by Fat Quarter Shop

CLICK HERE 

to watch the video tutorials

 by Kimberly for beginning cross stitch.

They are really fun 

and Kimberly's a hoot!