Farm Girl Vintage - Completed Reveal

The day is here!  I have finally completed my Farm Girl Vintage quilt-top!

I am so happy with this quilt.  I wish I didn't wait so long to complete it.  I love the bright colors of Lori Holt's fabrics and the whimsical nature of each block.  I've always viewed her blocks with a smile on my face.   Now, I have one of my own.  

I still have a lot of fabric left from this quilt.  I may have to use it in another Lori Holt quilt! 

Maybe in a Sew Scrappy Spools quilt?

Or perhaps, in her Cozy Cottage mini quilt?

Till next time,

 - - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Outer Borders

I am in the final stretch of my quilt.  I'll be adding the borders soon.  In the instructions, it is constructed using a straight border.  I thought I would use scalloped border.

I have never made a quilt with a scalloped border.  Maybe I should have practiced with a smaller project? Will it be difficult to bind?  I will soon find out!

I had used my handy-dandy Frixion pen to mark my quilt.  I used one of my dinner plates for the curve.

If I change my mind, later, after it's quilted, I can still change it to a straight border.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Body Completed

All the blocks and sashing are together. The body of the quilt is completed.

I'm trying my best to not scrutinize over the fabrics and colors I had used in this quilt.  I'm going to find errors that many other people may not see.  I just need to enjoy the scrappiness of the quilt.  If I decide to make chances in it, I may never get it finished.

Now to add the borders!

Till next time, 

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Reassembling of Colors - Part 2

I took a short break from my Farm Girl Vintage quilt.  I had to set it aside and so that I wouldn't look at the blocks.  Hopefully, I can see it at a new point of view.

I had to decide not to keep dissecting the quilt apart.  If I reconstructed every block, that had a matching fabric in its neighboring block, I could be changing most of the blocks.  I might as well make another quilt. 

I did change the greens in this series of blocks.  I think I continually used this green fabric because it was the darkest of the greens I that in my Lori Holt stash - and I did like it a lot!  I switched them out with another fabric, with a lighter green shade.  

Altogether, with the fabric change, it doesn't look so flawed, in my opinion.

I'm not going to change any more of the blocks.  I may be the only one who will see the duplication of the fabrics, since I am my worst critic.

Next, I'll be putting together the sashing between the rows.  I'll have to be more diligent in making sure I don't do the same thing with the cornerstone fabrics.  This seems like a never-ending dilemma!

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -  

Farm Girl Vintage - Piecing the Inner Border

Since I had given myself a break from the body of this quilt, I decided that I could start on the borders.  The red triangles, in the inner border, will accent the yellow fabric of the outer border really well.

A total of 106 red triangles.  

I had started this quilt in 2020, after my knee surgery.  I don't know, exactly, why I had stopped working on it.  It wasn't until this last October that I unpacked it and started working on it again.  To my amazement, I had a lot of the pieces already measured and cut.  I had all the triangles ready for piecing, as well as the white border strips!  I appreciate the extra work I was able to accomplish early on, so that I had less work now.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Reassembling of Colors

I'm a little frustrated.  I constructed each block, one by one, with a scrappy look.  I didn't sew them in a particular order.  I tried to pick fabric and the colors close to the ones shown in the Farm Girl Vintage book.

Once I had the rows laid out, I could see what the quilt was going to look like, once it was put together.

But now, I see that there are some blocks, side-by-side, are using the same fabric.  It may not be a big deal, but I wanted a different array of fabrics used, to give a scrappy, bright and colorful look to the quilt.  With a group of blocks sharing the same fabric, that are right next to each other, may not give that image.

In one particular area, I had used a green fabric with a flowerpot print.  I had used it in five adjacent blocks.  

I might feel a little bit better if I changed the fabric in the Pie Cherries and the Pinwheels block.  That would mean another meeting with Mr. Ripper. : (

With the sashing added and more of a separation between the blocks, would it look less apparent?  Am I the only one who sees it as an eyesore?

I'm going to have to set this quilt aside for a while, and then I can look at it with a new eye.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Rows

I have all 8 eight rows sewn now.  

I had intended to duplicate the quilt on the cover of the Farm Girl Vintage book, yet, some of the blocks are not.  Some of the blocks were made, color-wise, as they were shown inside the book.  I don't know why I chose to sew them together this way.  At this point, I don't want to unsew blocks just because they aren't just like the cover quilt.

I like how my computer drawings look, side-by-side, with my quilt rows.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Hand Embroidery

As I was assembling the next few rows, I realized that I still hadn't embroidered a few of the blocks.  I was in the flow with sewing the blocks, I had said to myself, "I can embroider that later."  And now is the time!

The Fresh Pears block had two seeds embroidered on one of the pears.

The Baby Chick Block had its legs and eyes embroidered.

The Woolly Lamb block, also, had its legs and eyes embroidered.

The Mama Hen block has its eye embroidered.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Rows 0ne and Two

I'm getting the rows sewn together and it's finally feeling like I'm making some good progress on this quilt.  As long as I keep moving forward, I can see this quilt top finished.

Below, I have the first two rows sewn together.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Simple Star Blocks

We're finally here!  The last four blocks!  And these blocks finish off the four corners of the body of the quilt.

All the blocks are complete, and I can start building the body of this quilt.  It will feel more like a quilt, than just bits and pieces.

Next, I'll be connecting the blocks with the sashing, to create the rows.  I'm hoping that it will go quickly.

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Cool Threads

For me, the Cool Spools block was fun to make.  I've always had a fascination with sewing themed projects, such as quilts and bags.  I feel the fabrics are sometimes a bit silly, but I still find them irresistible.  I'm planning on making and/or finishing some sewing themed quilt in the future.

I think the spools like a lot like bow ties!

As you can see, I had used a Y-seam when I added the background.

And I was very proud of how lovely the points came together in the center of the block!

The next two block are the Butter Churn block, the Milking Day block, and the Tumbleweed block.

Just four more block and we'll have all the blocks done!

Till next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -

Farm Girl Vintage - Scrappy Maple Leaf Block

The Scrappy Maple Leaf block had brought out a lot of memories.  As a young child, I enjoyed collecting leaves and pressing them for a school project.  In our part of the United States, we have a lot of maple trees: silver maple, sugar maple, red maple...so I had many maple leaves pressed in books. Wherever we lived, we always had a maple tree in our yard.  

The next two blocks are the Old Glory block and the Welcome block.

Two more posts and I'll have all the blocks stitched together!

Til next time,

- - - - Jane - - - -