The first time I heard of the book Farm Girl Vintage was at quilt club, when I spotted this cute clothesline full of 6-inch quilt blocks. It was love at first sight!
For Christmas the kids bought me a copy of the book.
I have enjoyed looking through the book over and over again. My plan was to make this Mama Hen first, in the 6-inch block.
Before starting on the Mama Hen I first wanted to make a mini design board that is used to keep all the small pieces together.
Lori Holt, the author, has a website where she gives instructions on how to make mini design boards: http://beeinmybonnetco.blogspot.com/2011/07/mini-design-board-tutorial.html
In the tutorial Lori Holt uses foam board but I didn't want to pay for it, so instead I glued two pieces of cardboard together; it worked just fine. The back of my board shows the cardboard instead of a pretty white, but that doesn't bother me since it's the front I'll be dealing with. By the way, if you decide to make a mini design board, be sure to use cotton batting; I used poly for my first try and it didn't work very well.
As I was cutting out my fabric for the Mama Hen, I was glad to have the project board; some of my pieces were 1-inch square!
The Mama Hen turned out just darling and I'm anxious to try out another block soon.
I love that my kids gave me this book for Christmas. It's so country, which is exactly the style I love in quilts.
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