Home Town Sew Along - Week Four - Fireworks House Block Tutorial!!

"FIREWORKS HOUSE BLOCK"

Welcome to week four 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!

Pineapple House Block

CLICK HERE

for that tutorial:)

Sunflower House Block

CLICK HERE

for that tutorial

Bird House Block

CLICK HERE

for that tutorial

Here's the Tulip House Block 

that I showed you 

how to make last time:)

CLICK HERE

for that tutorial

Today we are building the 

Fireworks House!!

Here is a list of the

  Home Town 

Sew Simple Shapes 

needed for this block:

1 - Q-2

2 - Q-5

1 - Q-6

1 - Q-8

3 - Q-15

4 - Q-16

2 - Q-17

2 - Q-22

2 - Q-33

1 - Q-34

1 - Q-35

1 - Q-36

You will need 2 prepared 

1/4" straight bias strips

for the chimney tops:

Each 2" long after 

both ends are pressed under. 

You will need 2 prepared 

3/8" straight bias strips

for the side roof tops:

Each 3" long after 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 3" 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:)

*TAKE NOTE*

When you are tracing Q-5 

for the side additions you will 

need to trace one in reverse.

I took a photo of the fabric squares

that you will need to make each firework.

Of course the cutting and the shape

 number that you need are in the guide 

but I thought you might

just like to see a visual!

We will sew a pinwheel for each firework

before sewing them to the interfacing

that you have traced the circles onto.

In this weeks 5" block tutorial

that I filmed on my YouTube channel...

I show you how to make pinwheels

in this particular method

because that's how we did them for 

Home Town Block #4 for our quilt.

Ready to sew into fireworks...

And the rest of the shapes too!! 

Sew all of the shapes and trim.

Clip the cleavage areas in both shrubs.  

All are turned...shaped and pressed

and ready to build our house:)

Here's the shapes that I glued together 

before pinning them to the background.

I glued the roof to the house 

and the chimneys to the roof

. 

Together from the top of chimneys 

to bottom of house it's 9 1/2" tall.

The chimneys are about 1 1/4" above the

 roofline and 1" in from the sides.

The door and front porch 

glued together measure 5" tall 

and I

 glued them onto the center of the house.

I also glued the roof onto the 

side additions and placed the windows

2 1/2" up from bottom and 3/8"

in from the side. 

Back view:)

Next place the house onto your background.

This house is in the center of the block 

 so use your center pressed crease

 to line it up...and place the bottom 

of house 3/4" into the grass.

I tucked the additions under

 each side of the house even with 

the house bottom and with 1 5/8"

width showing on each addition.

The house with both side 

additions measures about 12 1/4" wide. 

 

Next I installed the windows

onto the front of the house:)

I placed the windows 1 3/4" up from the

 bottom of the house and 3/4" in from

the sides of house.

 Top row of windows are spaced 1/2" 

apart from the bottom row.

Place the remaining small window

centered above the door

and 1/2" down from roof bottom.

Lastly I placed the shrubs 

about 1/4" down from house bottom.

Time for the fireworks!

The easiest way to place them for me

was just randomly using

 my ruler to make sure they stayed well

within the seam allowance guidelines

and looked cute above the house:)

It's time to Sue Glue everything down

and then check your measurements 

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

YaY!

My Fireworks House is built...

 

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 fireworks  

to represent the celebrations

that we had in my home town.

Everyone's favorite was Town Days

that we did every summer and we 

all participated by making floats

for the parade and/or 

riding our bikes and horses .

 Mom and Grandma and all of my aunts 

made cakes for the cake walk and 

everyone signed up to take our turn 

helping in the various booths.

We all had so much fun!

My mom sewed all of us kids 

 shorts and tops to wear...

and if it happened to be our turn 

to ride on the family float...

 she sewed the costumes for us too.

The parade was Friday night and 

the games...booths...races/contests

and food was all day long Saturday

 until dark when we ended with fireworks!! 

Thanks so much for sewing with me again

 today and for joining me 

 for the fourth week of the 

Home Town Sew Along

5" Home Town Pieced Blocks

#4 - #26 - #19 - #32

I did the fourth tutorial

for the 5" Home Town Pieced Blocks

on my Youtube channel last Friday.

These are the four blocks made with the

 called for prints in the guide 

that you will need to make for our quilt.

Just look how fun the first four

 5" blocks are looking together!

I can't wait to add even more

during our sew along!

CLICK HERE

to watch the video

for #4 Home Town Block:)

And of course I also did another

 10" bonus block as well 

for my table runner project:)

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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as soon as each video tutorial is 

published and on my way from my

sewing room to yours!!

I'll meet you right back here

on my blog this Friday for the 

Beehive House Block tutorial...

xx

Lori

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