Welcome to another episode of the Vintage Block Along I have another vintage block from my grandma's basket to share with you today:) I call it "Little Farmhouse" after my grandma's house of course! I made the window in yellow because grandma always kept the front light on for us:) Here's the photo of her little farmhouse that I showed you in the last post. There are a lot of colors to choose from in my Farm Girl Vintage fabric collection... And I chose these colors because they were 2 of her favorites. Grandma had a turquoise and pink kitchen. (she also had a pink sofa and deep turquoise chairs in her front room. The chairs turned all the way around and us kids would spin in them until we either got sick or grandma finally told us to stop:) I loved her house and everything in it! She had the entire set of Turqoise Butterprint PYREX and she used them everyday. She also used these pink Melmac dishes everyday as well. I look at these dishes and think of her cooking...her Sunday dinner potatoes and gravy was the best. She made the best sandwiches for lunch and always cut mine in half on the diagonal (half square triangle lol) and and then put it on a pink plate:) Grandma was of course a farm wife so she canned and preserved everything that she could. She made the most amazing sweet pickles at the end of every summer. She had to keep them in big old pottery crocks and do something different to the pickle water every day. I remember helping her rinse them... those crocks were big and heavy! It took about 2 months and they were the crunchiest pickles ever. When Mr.Honey and I got married... she soon found out that he loved them and then every year she gave him a jar at Christmas time. Grandma had a Shawnee Pig Cookie Jar that Uncle Bruce gave to her. He was her oldest. Mr.Pig lived on the counter next to the fridge and every one of us grandkids knew it! She was the typical grandma who always had it filled with homemade cookies. Most of the time they were her banana cookies and she always frosted them. Grandma loved rhinestone pins and she wore one pretty much every day. She especially loved to wear them to reflect the season or the holiday. I like to wear one once in a while because it makes me think of her:) I remember picking one out every now and then while we were shopping downtown. Mom and my 3 older sisters often went shopping with grandma. We would go to ZCMI (her favorite department store) And then look for fabric and sewing patterns. We would eat lunch there too:) We listened to records while we were at Grandma's. She loved beautiful music and she even had some silly songs that we loved to listen to such as "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" by Bing Crosby lol (I may or may not just googled it and I'm listening to it now) Here are the Farm Girl Vintage prints that I chose....and here is the vintage block pattern... originally called House on the Hill and is 12" x 12" finished. You will need a background and 5 other fabrics. From the background cut: 4 - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" 1 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" 2 - 2" x 2 1/2" Fabric One: 1 - 3 1/2" x 12 1/2" Fabric Two: 1 - 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" 2 - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" 2 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" 1 - 2" x 2 1/2" Fabric Three: 1 - 3 1/2" x 9 1/2" 2 - 2" x 2 1/2" Fabric Four: 1 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" Fabric Five: 1 - 2" x 2 1/2" Use these two 3 1/2" squares to make one half square triangle. Mark a line or use the Seams Sew Easy Guide If you want to know how I put it on my machine... CLICK HERE Set it aside for later when it's completed:) Use these two 3 1/2" squares to make an easy corner triangle onto each side of the roof. Make sure that you sew them going the right direction. It should look like this. These are my 1 1/2" squares from the trimmings:) It's time to put these in the bins... the scrappy square drawers are getting full! Pair up these smallest rectangles and sew them together... for the window and the chimneys. Now you can lay your pieces out into 4 rows like this... And sew them together. Sew the four rows together and you have a pretty Little Farmhouse Block with a flower garden in front! The back of my block:) I just love this block and it's super easy and quick to sew together. Here are the first four blocks and I am in love with how they look together... just hangin out in all of their vintage block glory!! If you missed the first three vintage block tutorials... or want to know more about this Vintage Block Along click on these links: Grandma's Star Pattern Basket Around the Corner