Vintage Block Along - Week 17 - Potluck Block!!

Well hello again!

I'm so happy to be back 

and to continue the

 Vintage Block Along!

As I told you in my last post 

I knew that I would have to

 take a break because of the 

photo shoot for my next book

 called Farm Girl Vintage 2!

Above is the cover quilt...

and the photo was taken 

on the back deck off of my kitchen:)

Every photo shoot for my books 

always take place at my house 

because I like to set up and style 

all of the photos and use 

vintage props from the 

decor around my home.

However in this shot above 

we went over to my other mom's house

 (Mr.Honey's mom)

 to get a picture of all 45 blocks

  on her clothesline.

She still hangs her 

laundry there every Monday:)

This is another shot 

taken on my back deck...

some of the doll quilts in the book.

There is a whole section 

in the book for these and I love them!

I have other projects in the book

 besides a whole lot of quilts 

and these Farm Girl Pin Pillows 

are just one of them:)

Kimberly and the girls were here

 for the week and we took photos

 for about 10 hours every day.

On the last day she did a live video

 from my kitchen and showed each

 and every quilt block...

every quilt and every project

 in the book and chatted about each one.

CLICK HERE

to watch the video and to 

see them all up close and personal!

The book will be out this September

 and I'm super excited about it. 

Now that all of the sewing is completed 

and pictures are taken 

I can once again get back to my 

weekly tutorials for the 

Vintage Block Along:)

I have another block to share with you

 from Grandma's pattern basket.

This is a fun block to make and it comes together very easily once it's broken down into segments.

I'm calling this block POTLUCK 

because every quilting bee day

 at Grandma's house...

we all brought a potluck dish

 to share at lunchtime.

I love the old recipe books...

they have all the best potluck dishes!

Of course all of the potluck 

dishes were brought in Pyrex...

Or in Tupperware:)

I'm continuing to use my 

Farm Girl Vintage fabric...

along with Bee Backgrounds:)

I redrafted this vintage block

 so that it could be 

rotary cut and machine pieced 

in my method that I love.

 Potluck finishes at 18" x 18"

Here is the cutting for one block:

Background- Cut 24 - 3 1/2" squares

Cut 4 - 3 1/2 x 6 1/2" rectangles

Red - Cut 1 - 6 1/2" square

Cut 8 - 3 1/2" squares

Teal - Cut 12 - 3 1/2" squares

Gray - Cut 4 - 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" rectangles

Before we go on I thought you 

might want to sew this

 little vintage to mixer 

turned pincushion up close!

I have a fun collection of 

vintage kitchen toys and I 

love to use them in my sewing room.

I placed my Farm Girl Vintage pin bowl

 in place of the mixing bowl 

and added a vintage spool of thread

 on the post at the top.

I keep my pretty pins in there

 and a pair of my Bee Basics scissors.

Easy peasy and fun!

Okay let's get started on the block.

Grab the red 3 1/2" squares and

 8 of the background 3 1/2" squares.

Place them right sides together 

and sew from point to point diaginally.

Either mark a line or use the 

Seams Sew Easy Guide

Trim the excess leaving an 

approximate 1/4" seam allowance

 and press open for a total of

 8 - 3 1/2" half square triangles.

Set them aside for later.

Now grab the rectangles...

And sew them together like this.

We are going to add 

easy corner triangles 

onto each corner.

Sew these two on the 

opposite corners first...

And then add the other two like this.

You should have 4 segments

 measuring 6 1/2" square.

Set them aside.

Next you will use the 

4 remaining teal 3 1/2" squares

 to sew an easy corner triangle 

onto each corner of the

 red 6 1/2" square.

Remember to sew opposite corners first...

trim them and press open before you 

can add the last two corners.

You should have one of these 

segments measuring 6 1/2" square.

Now you will need to make 

4 of these segments using the 

8 half square triangles and the

 8 remaining background squares.

You should have 4 of them now 

and they should measure 6 1/2" square.

Now lay out all nine segments

 onto your design board like this.

Sew the block together by sewing 

3 rows and then sew 

those 3 rows together...

just like sewing a nine patch block.

I also pressed my seams open

 when joining all of the segments

 together to make the block 

and used my Double Pins when seams

 needed to line up perfectly.

Here is the back of my block.

POTLUCK

measures 18 1/2" square

 at this point...

and will measure 18" square 

after we sew it into our quilt.

I'm still not finished 

sharing blocks with you...

so we will continue for a while yet...

But if I had to guess 

I'd say we are halfway through:)

If you are just joining us...

here is the list of the 

Vintage Blocks that we have done so far.

Click on each one 

to go to that 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

12. Sweet as Honey

13. Bear Hug Block

14. Front Yard Flower

15. Memory

16. Farmers Daughter