Welcome to Week 22 in the
Vintage Block Along!
Today I'm sharing another block
with you from my
Grandma's pattern basket...
and all of our blocks will
eventually become a quilt!
I'm using my
Farm Girl Vintage fabric collection
for all of my blocks...
Along with my Bee Backgrounds
This block is a good old
tried and true vintage block
and it's original name is
Old Maids Puzzle
which was then made by cutting templates
and piecing with difficult
on the bias angles.
I've re- drafted it for rotary cutting and
I'm naming my block
PLAYING CARD
because of the many hours
that I spent (and my family spent)
playing cards with grandma:)
From the time we were young...
we rarely left grandma's house
without playing a game with her
and it was cards most of the time.
I snapped this photo of her
during one of those card games
just a few months before she
passed away at age 95.
She loved the competion and
she was fierce lol!...
and she loved visiting while we played:)
I miss so many things about her...
especially her smile and her laugh.
She always wore jewelry and
most of the time she had a necklace on
and she would constantly be
playing with it...
this picture reminds me of that:)
I just had to include a block named
Playing Card and so this is the one
that I chose from her basket
that looked like it was
meant to be the one.
I used one background and three prints ...
in red and black of course!
From the the background
you will need to cut:
2 - 2" x 3 1/2 rectangles
12 - 2" squares
From this print cut:
2 - 3 1/2" squares
From this print cut:
2 - 2" squares
From this print cut:
4 - 2" squares
Let's get started on the first segments.
Grab 2 of the background and
red squares along with the
2 background rectangles...
And sew them together like this.
They should each measure
3 1/2" square at the point.
Now grab the 2 - 3 1 2" squares
and 2 more background squares
because you are going to add
easy corner triangles to the segments.
Sew from corner to corner by using the
Seams Sew Easy Guide
or drawing a line.
I like to poke in a pin
just to guide me
right where it needs to line up
with the red point underneath...
Like this.
Perfect!
This is what it should look like
after adding the pink
easy corner triangle.
Now add the background one
to the red corner...
Trim away the excess and press.
Easy peasy to make these segments
this way because we are
eliminating bias cuts...yay!
They should each still
measure 3 1/2" square.
Set them back onto your design board
and lets make 4 patch segments
with these 8 squares:)
Your 4 patch segments should also
measure 3 1/2" square at this point.
Now grab the remaining 4
background squares and add
easy corner triangles
onto the black squares...
Use the
or mark a line.
Trim...
And press!
These should still measure 3 1/2" square.
Now lay your segments out onto your
design board like this
and sew your block together:)
Fun and Done!
PLAYING CARD
should measure 6 1/2" square
before we sew it into our quilt:)
This is the back of my block...
you can see how I pressed mine.
I love this block and I still love
playing cards with my mom ...
and of course my own family:)
We play often and I
think of grandma every time:)
Thanks for sewing vintage
with me this week...
I'll be here next week
with another vintage block for you:)
xx
Lori
If you are new and just joining in...
Click on each one block
to go to that tutorial:
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
15. Memory
16. Farmers Daughter
19. Picnic
20. Sparklers
21. 4th of July Flag
3 comments:
i love your stories with Grandma! Equally I absolutely love the photos from your studio. do you change your curtains often? I swear I never see the same ones in there. You are truly an inspiration. I learned to sew on an old 1920's featherweight that my aunt used in WW1 to do alterations. She also worked in the factory, the original Rosie the Riviter. I was only 6 when I learned. And have since sewn all kinds of things, but never did quilting until now. So your tutorials really help. Step by step I am getting there. My daddy grew up on a farm and in the winter Great Grandma would get out the quilt frame and he would sit under, she would push the needle down and he would push it back up to her. He was quite the quilter. Keep up the great instructions...ill get there! thanks, Deb
Love the stories! Both my grandmothers were such a huge and wonderful part of my life. I too miss their smiles and laughs so much, they each had such a unique laugh. It's the little things, like you said she would play with her necklace, that we remember with such fondness. ❤️️
I love your blog and these blocks that you are dedicating to your grandma and the stories you are sharing with us. My nana is responsible for all the good in me and the reason I finally learned to quilt because I remember sitting under her quilting frame when all the ladies came over for an old fashion quilting bee or when she would just quilt on it by herself and the stories I would hear.
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