These blocks are getting close to being done. I've been looking for a border fabric and just have no idea what to put with it. On the lower right side are a pig block and a hand mixer block. Those are both replacements for blocks that I didn't want to use. I have a few more to make and then this will be ready to layout and sew together.
These Farm Girl Vintage blocks are all sewn together. I've been using the flying geese border as my leader/ender on the alphabet quilt. The flying geese are all made and have been sewn into pairs and from there I will start working on not putting too many of one color in any one area. In the book Lori Holt used all red flying geese, I opted for scrappy using the fabrics in the blocks.
If those two tops aren't enough mess at my sewing area I decided to try my hand at red and neutral log cabin blocks. I was gifted an overflowing plastic bag of red fabrics (several scrappy yards total) so I've been cutting them down into 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" strips. Mixing them with my neutrals and some of my reds I started making the 1 1/2" strips into log cabin blocks. The 2 1/2" strips are going into 9 patch blocks.
I may have to take that black and white strip out of that block. Right now it is standing out like a sore thumb. Either that or put more in there. In 2014 I blogged about starting some scrappy log cabin blocks. They didn't look the way I had hoped and are in my orphan block tote. Hopefully these make it all the way to being an actual top. I have these six blocks done and another four that need another round. These blocks finish at 9". It's a start anyway.
Happy sewing,
Julie
These Farm Girl Vintage blocks are all sewn together. I've been using the flying geese border as my leader/ender on the alphabet quilt. The flying geese are all made and have been sewn into pairs and from there I will start working on not putting too many of one color in any one area. In the book Lori Holt used all red flying geese, I opted for scrappy using the fabrics in the blocks.
If those two tops aren't enough mess at my sewing area I decided to try my hand at red and neutral log cabin blocks. I was gifted an overflowing plastic bag of red fabrics (several scrappy yards total) so I've been cutting them down into 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" strips. Mixing them with my neutrals and some of my reds I started making the 1 1/2" strips into log cabin blocks. The 2 1/2" strips are going into 9 patch blocks.
I may have to take that black and white strip out of that block. Right now it is standing out like a sore thumb. Either that or put more in there. In 2014 I blogged about starting some scrappy log cabin blocks. They didn't look the way I had hoped and are in my orphan block tote. Hopefully these make it all the way to being an actual top. I have these six blocks done and another four that need another round. These blocks finish at 9". It's a start anyway.
Happy sewing,
Julie
