Vintage Housewife Sew Along - Week Five!!

Welcome back!

It's week five of the 

Vintage Housewife Sew Along

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 if you need to download the 

Sew Along Guide and 

CLICK HERE 

if you are just joining us and 

need to read the Bee Prepared post 

that tells you all about this sew along:)

We are using Vintage Happy 2 Fabric...

And my new Sew Simple Shapes

Vintage Housewife

To make the 

Vintage Housewife Quilt

74" x 82"

These are the blocks that

 we have done so far:

BAKING BLOCK

CANNING BLOCK

IRONING BLOCK

TYPEWRITER BLOCK

And today we are making the 

TELEPHONE BLOCK

Sew Simple Shapes 

used for this block:

J-14

J-18

J-21

J-22

J-23

J-24

J-25

You will need to have a small 

1/4" of gray about 1" long for the lamp pole.

Coral 1/2" Straight Bias-

You will need 2 pieces 1 1/2" long

 after pressing both ends under.

I cut 2 more pieces 2" long and

 pressed them in half for the phone feet:)

You will need to use small red 

vintage trim for the phone cord 

and 1/4" red buttons for the dial.

You will also need a small red button

 and small vintage trim 

for the picture hanger.

You will use the aqua lace 

for the trim on the bottom 

of the lampshade:)

Ready-Set-Sew!

Before turning these 3 shapes

 you will need to clip them:)

All turned and shaped and ready for glue!

BEFORE all of that though...

use the Easy Trace Light Box 

and trace the embroidery pattern

 on page 17 of the guide.

I embroidered mine first.

I used 3 strands and a backstitch for everything and used the colors in my

 Bee Basics Aurifloss Box Set.

A close up:)

Before glueing down my cord...

I traced the lines for placement

 using the guide on page 16.

I tucked the ends underneath the phone:)

Then I finished off with

 the straight bias strips:)

I pinned my lamp and then placed 

the lace on the bottom before glue.

I simply wrapped it around the bottom

 and tucked the ends under on each side.

All pins are in!

And then came the glue:)

ALWAYS do a quick check

 with the ruler BEFORE the glue dries

 to see if you need to adjust anything.

Here are photos for you 

showing how I placed my buttons...

YaY! 

Ready for applique:)

Appliquéd...bordered and all buttoned up!

TELEPHONE BLOCK

should measure 14 1/2" 

square at this point

This is just what it was like

 in my house when the telephone rang...

all of us kids running to the phone 

to answer it first!

And most every time we picked up 

the phone to use it someone was

 already on it because we had a party line!

We shared it with 5-6 neighbors.

One was my grandma and 

3 were my aunt and uncles

Ahhh...good times:)

I still have 2 working rotary phones

 in my home because I love them.

I remember one time the babysitter 

had to ask me how to use it...

she couldn't figure it out...

apparently is was much too complicated.

This vintage chart above shows the 

ins and outs of the rotary dial:)

Let's celebrate vintage phones

 and how much the 

vintage housewife loved them too:)

I'll meet you right back here next week 

and we will watch some vintage T.V.!!

xx

Lori