Home Town Sew Along - Week Two - Sunflower House Tutorial!!

"SUNFLOWER HOUSE BLOCK"

Welcome to week two of the 

"HOME TOWN"

Sew Along!

Do you have all of your "tools"

together for building a house today?

Together we are making the 

Home Town Quilt

75" x 84"

The quilt is made with my fabric

 collection called Home Town:)

I hope that you all have all 

received your 

fabric kits by now...

 and that we are all ready to begin!!

If you still need one ...

just do a quick google search for 

"Home Town Quilt Kit"

to find shops who still have some left.

We are also using the

Home Town

Sew Simple Shapes

I have already posted the

"BEE PREPARED"

 post which details all of the supplies

 for the sew along and how it works.

I have also given the link there 

for the free PDF Download 

of the Sew Along Guide

CLICK HERE

to download the sew along guide

if you have not downloaded yet.

As per usual for the first block in my 

Sew Simple Shape Sew Alongs

 that FIRST tutorial is a video.

Because I now have my own  

YouTube Channel

 I have posted the 

 Flag House Block

Tutorial there.

CLICK HERE

to visit my channel and watch the 

tutorial and I hope that you love it!

Pretty please leave me a comment

over there and let me know:)

If you like what you see 

and my other videos there...

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 I post another tutorial:)

 Topiary House Block 

CLICK HERE

for the tutorial!

Here's the Pineapple House Block 

that I showed you 

how to make last time:)

CLICK HERE

for that tutorial:)

Today we are building the 

Sunflower House!!

Here is a list of the

  Home Town 

Sew Simple Shapes 

needed for this block:

1 - Q-1

1 - Q-3

1 - Q-6

1 - Q-10

6 - Q-15

1 - Q-16

12 - Q-28

2 - Q-33

2 - Q-44

2 - Q-60

You will need prepared 

1/4" straight bias strips: 

*2 - for the flower stems - 7" long

*2 - for chimney tops - 1 1/2" long

after both ends are pressed under.

You will need a prepared 3/8"

straight strip for above

 the front door roof trim

one should measure 3" long

after both ends are pressed under

and the other should measure 2 3/4"

after just one end is pressed under. 

You will need a 1" prepared 

straight bias strip for the front porch.

Press both ends under and

it should now measure 2 1/2" long after.

Cut your background  

14" x 16"

and sew it to the 3 1/2" x 16" grass

pressing the seams open.

Now press in half for

 pinning and glue basting your block:)

Grab your tools and let's start building!!

Before you sew the Q-60 Planter shapes

 you will need to sew the fabrics together.

Use a 1/4" seam allowance and 

press the seams open.

You can tell where the darker fabric

 strip needs to go...

now sew the shape as per usual! 

Sew all the rest if the shapes and trim.

Before turning clip the cleavage areas

 in the sunflowers and planter sides.  

All turned...shaped and pressed:)

Now let's go build our house!

The first thing that I did was

to glue some of the shapes together 

before pinning them to the design board.

I glued the strips on top of the chimneys

and the centers onto the sunflowers.

I glued on the door and the front 

porch roof strips.

I also glued the front porch about

1/4" up onto the bottom of the door

and the window about 3/8" above the door.

I used my ruler to center everything.

Back view:)

The house, roof and chimney together

measure about 11 3/4" tall.

The chimneys are 1 1/4" taller 

than the roof

and placed about 1/2" 

in from the top corners.

Measure in 2" from each side 

of the house and glue the door piece.

Next place the house directly in the center

 of the block using your pressed crease

 to line it up...and place the bottom 

of house 3/4" into the grass.

I placed the planters so that the top 

of that dark strip on each one

 lines up with the top of the

 grass line... and about 3/8" away

 from the sides of the house.

I placed the top windows even with the

 top of the center window above the door

 and the placed the bottom windows 

1/2" down from the top windows.

The windows are in 5/8" 

from the sides of house:)

Now let's get those sunflowers

into the planters!

The stem should be 5 1/2" long

from the top of the planter to the 

bottom of the sunflower.

Repeat for the other side:)

The leaves are placed 1 1/4" in

 from the outside of fabric.

The left side top leaf is 1/4" down 

from the sunflower and the right side 

bottom leaf is 1/4" up from the planter.

All leaves on each side of the stem

are placed 1/4" apart and 1/4"

away from the side of the house. 

Repeat for the sunflower 

on the right side of the house:

Now you can Sue Glue everything down

and then check your measurements 

using the 14 1/2" Trim-It Ruler.

YaY!

My Sunflower House is built...

with flowers planted 

and 

it's ready for applique!!!!

Afterwards I'll press from the back and

 trim down to 14 1/2" square:)

I included a house with sunflowers

 because it seemed like in the summertime 

there were always sunflowers everywhere

 you looked in my hometown.

They were always growing wild on 

the side of the roads too because 

sunflowers easily re-seed themselves.

 They are such a cheerful flower

they always made me happy! 

Each year my Dad planted giant

 sunflowers across the front borders of 

our very large vegetable garden.

I remember that we loved watching 

them grow higher and higher and

wondering how tall

 they would actually get!!

We also loved to harvest the seeds and

to make feeders for the birds

from the giant sunflower heads:)

I've carried on Dad's tradition

and plant sunflowers around my veggie

garden borders to this day!

Thanks so much for sewing with me

and Miss Dolly again today

 and for joining me 

 for the second week of the 

Home Town Sew Along

We have built four houses so far 

for our neighborhood:)

5" Home Town Pieced Blocks

#18 - #1 - #30 - #34

Remember that there are 10 total 

different Home Town pieced block designs

and we are doing four of each

design in different fabrics for our quilt.

That is a total of 40 blocks...

because Quilty math says-

4 x 10 + 40!

I'll always show a picture here of

the four blocks and each of 

their assigned number of how 

they are placed in the quilt.

If you need a way to keep track of 

them and their placement...

you can view that in the sew along guide

on page 15 which is the instructions

and explanation of how the quilt

 goes together when the blocks are complete!

And so as promised...

 I began to do the tutorials

for the 5" Home Town Pieced Blocks

on my Youtube channel yesterday.

I started with block design #1 

and I love them!!

These are the four blocks made with the

 called for prints in the guide 

that you will need to make for our quilt.

I made even more than the four blocks 

needed for the quilt and 

I explain why in my video:)

CLICK HERE

to watch the video:)

And I also did a 10" bonus block as well!!

I will continue the tutorials twice 

weekly during the sew alongs that we 

can be making our pieced blocks 

in-between the applique blocks!

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published and on my way from my

sewing room to yours!!

I'll meet you right back here

on my blog next Monday for the 

Bird House Block tutorial...

xx

Lori

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