Good morning cute people! Today is not only the last day of July… but it's also week 14 of our Farm Girl Friday's sew along…and I'm having so much fun:) So grab your book and let's get started:) If you need a copy… click here Turn to page 48 where you will find the instructions for our first block Old Red Barn Even though I already put two other barn blocks in the book… they were larger and I needed to add a 6" and 12" size to play with and also for the sampler quilt! I chose to use a quarter square triangle block for the door to imitate the "X" on a traditional barn door:) In the book I show you my easy peasy method for making these quarter square triangles. It's my favorite way and always scrappy fun! Next block up is Old Glory on page 47 You know that I am proud to be an American through and through and so of course my Farm Girl book would not be the same without Old Glory… farming is rooted deep in our American heritage:) So today I have a big surprise for you:) Even though you already have a good amount of Farm Girl blocks in the book to play with… (45 total to be exact) I have a few more to add to the pile if you want them! Meet Penny Pig! I designed this new block last month (along with several others) for my students in my three consecutive Farm Girl Vintage workshops last month. We had so much sew much fun with these new companion blocks and I had so many requests for patterns from those of you who did not attend my workshops. So this week we have two of them ready (Penny Pig is the first) as a PDF pattern available at Fat Quarter Shop CLICK HERE if you would like to make Penny and add her to your Farm Girl Vintage block collection! I have given cutting instructions for Penny in both 6" and 12" sizes just like in the book:) Here is the second companion pattern that I designed for my workshops… Apple Picking! I made this Apple Picking quilt that finishes at 48 1/2" square which is a perfect size for the farm table in my kitchen this fall! and of course… I used red gingham for the border! The pattern is for the quilt… the 3 different apple blocks… in both 6" and 12" sizes:) CLICK HERE if you want to pick some apples! These are Kimberly's 6" blocks for this weeks Farm Girl Friday. She made them with my current fabric collection Modern Mini's:) When you add yours to social media- please use the hashtags to join in on the fun and so that we can see them! #OldGloryBlock and #OldRedBarnBlock Of course Kimberly also made a 6" #ApplePickingBlock and #PennyPigBlock I can't wait to see yours! Click Here to see this weeks schedule to visit our cute guest bloggers! P.S. I want to show you the quilt that I made using Penny Pig and 3 other Farm Girl Blocks from my book:) I used my Farmhouse Lane setting on page 128 of my book. Instead of making nine 12" Farmhouse blocks… I made nine 12" Penny Pig blocks. Then in place of the six tree blocks in-between the houses… I used 6" Sunny Sunflower blocks and 6" crops blocks. When you sew these together they measure exactly the same size as the trees:) This is a progress photo in my studio back when I was auditioning the placement of the blocks. You can see that my book is opened to the Farmhouse Lane quilt page for reference… along with other random quilty things in the background:) I made sixteen of my 6" Apronstrings blocks and made the rows in-between the pigs and flowers instead of the sixteen Welcome blocks that I used in the Farmhouse Lane quilt. All borders and sashing measurements are exactly the same as in the book… nothing different at all… just substituted different blocks. Here it is right before quilting... And here it is after the cute swirly quilting (but no binding yet) at one of my workshops. I'm peeking at you from behind the quilt along with my super cute quilty peep Shanna:) I have several more companion blocks and patterns to be released after each of my Farm Girl Vintage Workshops this year and I can't wait to show you each and every one of them! I'll have all info about them on my friday blog posts here... and as always I always have lots and lots of sneak peeks on my Instagram! click here to follow me:) I hope you enjoyed this weeks episode of Farm Girl Friday Tune in next week for more down home fun! xx Lori