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

Good morning and welcome to 

Week Ten of the 

Farm Girl Vintage 2 Quilt Along

#FarmGirlFridays

We are using my latest book

Farm Girl Vintage 2

Farm Girl Vintage Fabric

And making 2 Farm Girl Blocks per week:)

The first Farm Girl Block

 for today is 

HAND MIXER 

on page 67 of the book.

This block is included in the small

 Mix and Match Quilt 

that I made for my kitchen.

Ya'll know how much I love kitchen quilts

 and so I am making another one

 but this time I am using 12" blocks 

and adding some of the 

kitchen themed blocks from a 

few of my other books.

First I made the 

BAKING DAY Block 

from my first 

Farm Girl Vintage Book

You can find it on page 13 of that book:)

Next I made the KETTLE'S ON Block

 from the first book as well...

it's on page 39.

And then from my book 

Spelling Bee 

I made the CAKE Block.

In all three of these blocks I used

 my new fabric collection 

Vintage Happy 2 

and the chicken tracks print from 

Farm Girl Vintage for the background.

Shown in this photo above are some of 

the corals and pinks in the collection:)

I love how Farm Girl Vintage and

 Vintage Happy 2 

go together just like 

"peas and carrots" 

LOL

So far I have 9 - of the 12" blocks

 sewn for my new kitchen quilt...

I'll be adding 6 more for a total of 

15 because I'll be using the 

Mix and Match setting on page 156 

for this quilt too.

 I won't be using any of the alternate

 Mix and Match Blocks...

 just all 15 different kitchen blocks.

I'm going to continue to make some of 

them from my other books as I get time...

I'll show you each block as I sew them.

I'll keep you updated here on my blog 

during the sew along posts.

It's going to be a fun one!

The next Farm Girl Block for this week is 

HAPPY FLOWERS 

on page 70 of the book. 

I know I've told you before LOL

 but flower quilts are another of 

my favorites to make because 

I love sewing flower blocks just as much 

as I love planting and growing actual flowers!

Of course I used this block in the 

Beekeepers Garden Quilt from the book!!

I want to show you something fun 

that I did with Happy Flowers Block

 using just a bit of simple quilty math:)

To start off...

I cut a 6" Happy Flowers Block and also a

 6" Cheerful Tulips from page 28.

These flowers are so easy and fun to 

make using my scrappy stash baskets.

This is a photo of my baskets from my

 Scrappy  Project Planner.

In there is where I explain my entire

 process of how I sew from these baskets

 each and every time that I sew!

Making these flower blocks is no exception.

When you are making scrappy flowers...

or any scrappy block really...

a tip for making them even faster

 is in the cutting.

I like to cut a bunch of backgrounds only 

for each block and put them a design board.

I then put a sticky note on it saying

 what block it's for...

what size block and how many.

For instance my sticky note might say:

4 - 6" Happy Flowers Backgrounds

Then I just need to grab out of my 

scrappy baskets the green prints 

and cut all of the leaves...

add then add them onto the design board 

with the cut backgrounds and then

 add the stems as well.

I cut the flowers themselves very last...

making sure that I use a lot of 

different happy colors for variety ...

and add them to the design boards too.

I stack the boards on top of each other

 and put them next to my machine

 for sewing when I get a few 

extra minutes here and there.

(photo above is when I am cutting

 and prepping several blocks at once...

I do that with both appliquéd and pieced blocks)

You may be surprised how efficient

 this method of cutting several first

 and then sewing is...

I use it all the time and it 

has worked well for me over the years.

So....

 here is the something fun that I 

wanted to show you about the

 Happy Flowers Block...

and the Cheerful Tulips block as well.

Because all three varieties of 

individual flowers measure the same size...

which is half the block...

you can switch it up and 

sew them together like this!

By simply splitting up the tulips 

and sewing them to one of the

 happy flowers you have 2 new flower blocks:)

YaY!!

Because I love sewing these little 

flowers I've added more along with some 

6" Bright Zinnias to make

 another scrappy flower quilt.

I cut some 6 1/2" squares from my 

red gingham and laid them out with

 the flower blocks onto my design wall 

to audition for alternate blocks ...

I like it but I don't know if I LOVE it yet.

I may try one of my larger ginghams 

to see how that looks instead.

I've got plenty of time to decide

 as I go along because 

I'll be adding more

 Happy Flower - Cheerful Tulips - and

Bright Zinnia Blocks 

as well as 6" Pretty Dahlias 

from the book too.

I'll show you my progress on these as I go along as well:)

I hope you all are having fun making your

Farm Girl Blocks

I love seeing them on my 

INSTAGRAM 

keep posting them...they are so fun!

I'll be right back here next week with more Farm Girl Fun!!

xx

Lori