Saturday, March 4, 2017

Playing on the Farm

Back at the end of January Amy of A Quilting Sheep posted the cutest block.  It was a friendship block with a heart.  Now I love the friendship block and I love hearts so of course I had to save the tutorial that she provided.  I thought it would be so cute in my Farm Girl Vintage quilt, but I didn't want the large block.  Amy kindly gave me permission to try to downsize it to 6 1/2 inches.

Yep it has a wrinkle and it has some teeny tiny squares to make HST but not too bad for a first try.  Thanks again Amy for a super cute block. 

Then Barbara of wont-to-be quilter, shared a block on Facebook and I knew I wanted to try to make the block. I made a cute apple block.  I think my stem is too large and I have some 3/4 inch strips and  1inch squares to make HST,  but I got it to 6 1/2 inches square.

I also think my leaf is kind of cute.  I did somehow end up with a strip which was a scotch too small.

The blocks for the Farm Girl Vintage SALin March are the barn, and the pear.  I think before I go any further I may need to work out how many blocks am I making, and create kind of a layout since I have 6 1/2 inch blocks as well as 12 1/2 inch blocks.

Last month was my birthday.  If you shop online some shops send you specials for your birthday.  I had a 20% off discount.  So I just had to use it, not using a 20% off coupon is like flushing money down the drain right?

I bought some Kimberbell basics by Maywood and some more aqua/teal fabrics.  Can you tell I am still obsessing about my fabric for the February RSC, even though it is a new month and the color is red!  I should be able to do that one.  I have lots of red. 



10 comments:

  1. Your blocks are so cute....happy birthday fabric is the best.

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  2. The Friendship block is one of my favorites, the heart makes it extra special! More lovely fabric for your stash!

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  3. love your farm blocks. and your birthday stash was necessary of course!

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  4. your two blocks are so cute--and what's a birthday w/o more fabric, right? LOL hugs, Julierose

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  5. I love both the blocks you have shown today...lovely inspiration thankyou!! A perfect thing to do for your birthday, add to your stash :-)

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  6. Great blocks - each one of them.

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  7. Cute apple, I had plans to make a Lori Holt apple quilt at one time but I think it fell off the list, so many great patterns and ideas for quilts....guess that's why the samplers make so much sense :)

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  8. Your apple is so lovely. I could eat it!
    Love from
    Baa. xxx

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