Bee In My Bonnet: 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!!