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Good morning cute people... it's time to sew vintage today! I'm sharing another vintage quilt block with you from my grandma's pattern basket:) I chose a red and a coral pink from Farm Girl Vintage to use for todays block:) I added the pink vintage phone in the photo ... And the pink thimble... And I'm going to explain what these two things have in common and why I'm calling this traditional vintage block "QUILTING BEE" Of course you know by now that my grandma and all 5 of her sisters were quilters. Anytime that there was a special occasion happening in town like a wedding or a baby announcement... well of course that meant that it was time to make a quilt! Many quilt tops were already completed by grandma and my aunts and were just waiting for the right occasion:) Grandma would get on the phone and let everyone know when the quilt would be "on the frames" Of course living in a small town... back then we were all on a party line and so the word would spread quickly and within a day or so the Quilting Bee would begin! Everyone showed up with their own needles...thimble and scissors. I love seeing everyones "sewing kits" And I still love sewing kits and containers to this day! Of course everyone also brought a covered dish for the potluck:) It was my grandma that most often organized the quilting bee because it was at grandma's house or at our house. Both of our front rooms were situated so that you could walk around the frames and also have easy access to the kitchen. Because the quilt remained on the frames for several days until it was completed ... it was important to be able to get around it:) I just love rotary phones:) This pink one is just like the one that was on grandma's kitchen wall. She had a pink desk top rotary on her bedroom side table. I mentioned that we were on a party line when I was a girl... and most of the time you had to wait to use the phone because when you picked it up someone was already on there! We would sigh and roll our eyes when we recognized the voice of certain people because we knew it would be a while until we could make our call lol. This is what the phone on our kitchen wall looked like. It had a super long cord. Most of the time when mom was on the phone she held it up to her ear with her shoulder because she would be doing the dishes or cleaning the kitchen or baking. When we wanted to go downstairs... we had to go through the kitchen and that meant we needed to lift up the cord and go under it. But obviously to "some" of us kids it was an invitation to play jumprope and if we missed our jump... the phone would be suddenly snatched away from moms ear...whoops! lol Anyhoo...sorry I was so "chatty"...:) I named this block Quilting Bee because I think the red center looks like a quilt and the coral pink triangles represent all of us sitting around the frames and quilting and talking and laughing:) That's how I grew up! First...playing under those frames... threading needles for grandma and my aunts... until I was old enough to put my own stitches into the quilt:) Okay...enough of the vintage memories... let's talk about todays tutorial. If you know anything about me... you know that I love to sew scrappy. That's how grandma did it. She did it out of necessity... I do it out of the simple pure love of fabric... color... and prints! Scrappy patchwork is my favorite:) This photo is from my Scrappy Project Planner and it's a photo of my scrappy stash baskets that I sew from. CLICK HERE To watch this video if you want to see my sewing room and how I store my scrappy stash. Whenever you see photos of my scrappy sewing you can bet all of the fabrics came from those baskets. I usually buy fat quarters or half yards and then cut them into the strip sizes that I use most often... And from those strips I can easily cut squares or rectangles or whatever shape is needed. I have sewn all of the scrappy projects for my books from my baskets:) I love my method and have done tutorials and blogged about it... taught workshops about etc. It works perfectly for me and I continue to sew in this way. I outlined my complete how and why method in my Scrappy Project Planner that has been out for quite a while and I still use it everyday as well. It has many different sections in it... along with scrappy quilt patterns too. CLICK HERE if you want to know more about it. This is a photo from one of my pages last year.... But what I especially want to show you today is this section where my scrappy method is and also my "short cut methods" for making popular quilting segments like half square triangles... flying geese etc. I'm telling you about this today because I'm going to use my half square triangle method from my planner for the Quilting Bee Block tutorial. There are so many ways to piece a quilt block and I wanted to show you an example of that. So far I have had you cut 2 squares that results in 1 half square triangle. This time I'm going to show you how to cut 2 squares but get TWO half square triangles. Sew...on to the cutting! From the background cut: 6 - 4 1/2" squares 5 - 3 1/2" squares 3 - 1 1/2" x 20" strips From the medium print cut: 6 - 4 1/2" squares From the dark print cut: 3 - 1 1/2" x 20" strips Let's make the half square triangles first using the short cut method. Mark two lines 1/2" apart onto the back of the background square and pair it up with a print square with right sides together. You will sew on both marked lines. Or you can do like I do and instead of marking lines I just place the point of the squares on the line to the left of my Seams Sew Easy Guide and follow it while sewing... And then flip it around and sew the other seam. Because the lines on the guide are 1/4" apart... I automatically have 2 seams sewn 1/2" apart without marking:) Easy Peasy! Cut them apart like this. Grab a 3 1/2" Trim-It Ruler and lay the diagonal line on the ruler directly onto your stitching line like this... And trim all the way around holding the ruler in place and turning the Cute Cuts mini mat as you go. Press it open... and repeat for the other one. You now have two half square triangles:) You could also press first and then trim like this... but I find it faster to trim first before pressing open. Continue trimming up for all 12 half square triangles. They should each measure 3 1/2" square at this point. This method causes some fabric waste just like the one I have been having you do before when you trim off one half and discard. The only difference is ... the shape of the waste! You could cut triangles and sew them together and there would be no waste... but that is cutting and sewing on the bias and is very difficult to get accurate. I would rather have easy cutting and a little fabric waste and be accurate... as well as enjoy my sewing!! You of course are free to do any method out there that you like best! Okay lets work with the strips now. Sew a 1 1/2" background strip onto each side of a print strip. Press your seams open for accuracy and less bulk. Measure in 1 1/2" and cut. Do this 8 times for 8 segments that measure 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" Now sew two print strips onto each side of a background strip. You will need to cut 4 - 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" segments. You will also need 4 - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" segments that look like this. I had you cut an extra set of strips in case you need it:) All of you segments are almost ready to make your Quilting Bee Block! First you will need to sew the strips together into 4 nine patch blocks like this. These four segments should measure 3 1/2" square at this point. Double Pins come in handy when piecing to line up the seams perfectly. Just giving you another option: If you wanted to cut all of these squares separately instead of using the strip method you would cut each square 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" You would cut each rectangle 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" and sew them together. You would cut 2 squares 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and sew them together to make ONE half square triangle like I have been showing you in my other block tutorials in this series. Of course...the other 5 background squares would still be cut 3 1/2". I'll continue to show you how to cut in this simple way that I have been doing from the beginning for the remaining block tutorials. Today I just wanted to tell you about my shortcut methods that I use in my Scrappy Project Planner so that you could choose. I always use those shortcut methods when making several blocks at a time for a quilt or runner... but when I'm just making just one or two blocks... this simple cutting and sewing is the way that I love the best! Lay your segments out onto your design board like this. There are 5 rows to sew across. After sewing those... sew those 5 rows together to form your block! Here is the back of mine in case you want a peek:) I LOVE this block!!! I have so many fond memories of sitting around the quilting frames with family and friends. Perhaps this corner of my block can represent grandma. I miss her so!! QUILTING BEE BLOCK should measure 15 1/2" square before we sew it into our quilt:) If you are just joining us and want to sew vintage blocks with me... click on each block that we have already sewn for that tutorial: 1. Grandma's Star 2. Pattern Basket 3. Around the Corner 4. Little Farmhouse 5. Rhinestone 6. Vintage Lily 7. Star Shine 8. Humble 9. Egg Money Thanks so much for chatting with me today on our own Vintage Block Along Party Line... and for sewing vintage! I'll be back next week with another vintage block to share with you:) xx Lori P.S. Inside of my book SPELLING BEE I have a block pattern for a vintage rotary phone... just in case you feel the need to sew one:) It looks like this and there are instructions for both a 6" and a 12" block. I'm making an entire quilt out of the 12" size in all different colors and calling it "PARTY LINE" I'll show you someday when it's finished!

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