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Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along For our geographic area, we have officially entered what many locals call the "mud season" - that time of year when the weather can't decide to pour down rain to the point of flooding or grace us with a warm sunny afternoon. In this time of weather flip flop, and wh...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Sew Along Spring is finally arriving, and we are so excited to add three more blocks to our stack of Farm Girl Vintage creations... Can you believe it?! With 23 blocks sewn we can refer to it as a stack now! For March we have: Haystack, Kettle's On (Teapot), and Kitchen Window...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Sew Along This month we are sewing Blocks 18, 19 & 20 with our featured blocks for February: Furrows, Gingham & Grandma's Quilt. Wow! After these blocks, we will have 20 finished blocks -- isn't that exciting?! Psssst! If you're just joining us and want to get in on the...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Sew Along We are very excited to be working on the continuation of our Featherweight Shop's Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along! If you're just now joining us, welcome! We began the sew along doing one block at a time so that new quilters could learn before we picked up speed. So, ...
Read MoreBlocks 13 & 14 are our featured blocks - Egg Basket and Farm Fresh Flower blocks! The Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop continues.... This was indeed the Christmas season, yet a few of us Featherweight Shop diehards still got together to work on our blocks. We wa...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Shop Sew Along - Blocks 11 & 12 (Country Crossroads & Crops)
Block 11 & 12 are our featured blocks - Country Crossroads and Crops blocks! The Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop continues.... After laying out all my blocks I noticed that mine are needing a bit more pops of red for balance. Thus, I decided to incorporate som...
Read MoreBlock 9 & 10 are our featured blocks - Cool Threads and Corn & Tomatoes! The Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop continues; block 9 was a lot of fun to be creative with the thread spools! Ruthie had the idea of using a light brown fabric print for wooden spoo...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 7 & 8 (Chicken Foot & Churn Dash)
Block 7 & 8 are both being featured today... Chicken Foot and Churn Dash are the two blocks for the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! Block 7 has a number of pieces forming the "Chicken Foot"; it turns out so cute all sewn together in tiny detail. Block 8 is o...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 6 (Canning Season)
Block 6 is here...Canning Season, of the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! This block features six canning jars -- just in time for late summer canning season. What about you? Are you canning peaches yet? If you're just now joining us, we are continuing with our F...
Read MoreFarm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 5 (Butter Churn)
We are already on Block 5, Butter Churn, of the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! If you're just now joining us, we are continuing with our Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along at the Featherweight Shop! Grab some fabric, get it prepared and cut and let's enjoy some more Fe...
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