Farm Girl Vintage 2 Quilt Along - Farm Girl Friday's - Week Nine!!

Welcome back to the 

next episode of the 

Farm Girl Vintage 2 Quilt Along

Also known as ...

#FarmGirlFridays

We are using my latest book 

Farm Girl Vintage 2

And sewing with my 

Farm Girl Vintage fabric...

And making 2 Farm Girl Blocks each week!

Our first Farm Girl Block 

for this week is 

GRANDMA'S CROCHET

on page 61 of the book.

I was a lucky girl because both of 

my grandma's taught me

 their favorite hobbies.

One grandma taught me to quilt 

and my other grandma taught me to crochet!

I had to include a crochet block

 in my book because it was a big part

 of my childhood on the farm.

We were crocheters and 

loved to play with yarn!!

I designed 3 skeins of yarn and

 a crochet hook for the block:)

I added some of my Granny Circle Coasters

 in the photo to represent crochet.

Aren't they fun?

They are super easy to make and 

I did a YouTube tutorial on

 Riley Blake Designs channel 

showing you how to make them.

It's a beginning crochet tutorial

 where I show you how to do a 

slip stitch ...a single crochet

 and a double crochet.

If you want to make one...

CLICK HERE

I use my 

100% Cotton Chunky Thread 

(there are 28 colors)

and also my 

100% Cute Crochet Hooks

I also did a YouTube tutorial on how to

 make my Granny Square Pincushions and 

this one is on 

Fat Quarter Shop's channel.

Stitches you need to know 

to make these are a slip stitch and 

a double crochet...

which I show you in the

 Granny Circle video.

CLICK HERE

if you want to make one of these fun pincushions:)

Our next Farm Girl Block 

for this week is 

GRANDPA'S TRUCK 

on page 63 of the book.

Of course I had to 

include a truck in my book:)

Both of my grandpa's were farmers 

and I rode in their trucks often

 as they were hauling hay and livestock.

I've been waiting for the week

 when we are doing this block...

because I am going to 

let you in on a little secret!

When I designed this block...

I made sure to draw the bed of the truck

 to finish at 6" wide 

when making the 12" block.

Can you guess why?

So that besides hauling hay...

 you can haul livestock too!

YaY!

You simply substitute the hay 

for any 6" farm animal block.

YaY!

Looky here:)

I'm hauling my 

WOOLLY SHEEP Farm Girl Block 

from my first Farm Girl Book....

it's sew fun!

Let me tell you how to do it.

First I cut a 12" Grandpa's Truck Block...

I DO NOT CUT ANY OF THE

 HAY OR TRUCK RAIL PIECES

I did not sew them because 

I'm going to replace it with my sheep.

I sewed a 6" Woolly Sheep Block from

FARM GIRL VINTAGE

(I did not add the grass on the bottom)

Okay...time for some Quilty Math: 

Because the hay section measures

 4 1/2" tall and 6 1/2" wide 

before you sew it into the 

back of the 12" truck...

you will need to make your 

farm animal that same size.

It's already 6 1/2" wide 

but you will need to cut it 4 1/2" tall.

Do this by measuring 4 1/2" down 

from the TOP of the block and cut it.

The bottom part of the farm animals

 that you have cut off have the illusion

 that they are inside the bed 

of the truck and you simply sew 

the top part of the animal

 into the 12" truck block!

Easy peasy:)

I added 1 1/2" borders

 around this block too:)

Hi Woolly Sheep!

Have a fun ride!

I just love it!!

This is a memory that I have 

from my childhood...

sheep in the back of the truck...

especially during shearing time!

My dad used to go to other farms and shear thier sheep and also go and shoe horses.

 I often went

 with him to do both.

I especially loved watching him 

shear the sheep.

He was so fast and it was fascinating to see.

Looky how cute!

Once again...

hauling hay and also livestock.

Yes...I'm going to say it...

wouldn't it be a super fun quilt

or a table runner

 with all different animals

 in the back of a Grandpa's Truck?

Yes.

It certainly would:)

Of course you can also put a 

Mama Hen or a Baby Chick block

 from my first book in there ...

they would be giant sized and oh so cute!!

Because we just had Christmas...

 I did not have time to sew blocks 

with all of the farm animals so instead... 

I asked Sarah from It's Sew Emma 

(she is amazing and whom I work directly

 with when doing the instructions 

for my books)

Anyhoo...

I asked her to do a mock up block

so that I could show you 

what each farm animal blocks

 from the book would look like

 in the back of the truck:)

Looky at Happy Horse!

He looks perfectly at home

 riding back there...

I asked Sarah to take out the 

grain bucket and just use the 

background fabric because 

that's what I will do. 

Penny Pig is taking a sweet ride 

in Grandpa's Truck:)

Milk Cow is going to visit the 

neighbors 3 farms down the road...

And Friendly Goat is so friendly

 that he still lets Baby Chick 

ride on his back while he is riding too:)

I love how over sized that 

Rise and Shine Rooster looks 

in the back of Grandpa's Truck...

so whimsical and sew farm girl style:)

Thanks for joining this vintage farm girl

 for this week's episode:)

Yes...

that is me second one in from the right...

I'm petting one of our cows with my 

3 older sisters Debbie, Carolyn and Tammy.

I'm pretty sure that my dad 

took this photo because notice that 

all of the cow is in there

 but not the top of 

Debbie's and Carolyn's heads...

and my mom wouldn't have cared about the cow 

 LOL she would have made sure that 

she got all of us in and not the cow!!

We always tease dad about that!

Okay...

 so I will meet you right back here

 next week for two more 

Farm Girl Blocks!!

xx

Lori