Forty-five farm-inspired patchwork blocks, each charted in two sizes, give Lori Holt's third book its range: a baby chick, an egg basket, an old red barn, a woolly sheep, rows of corn and tomatoes, and a field of sawtooth stars and pinwheels. Every block is offered at both 6 inches and 12 inches and mixes and matches with the blocks from Lori Holt's other books, so the same set can become a scrappy vintage sampler, a calm two-color throw, or a single oversized block on a pillow. The look leans warm and nostalgic, while the clean piecing keeps the finished quilts looking deliberate rather than fussy.

What the Book Includes

This listing is for the printed pattern book, not a kit or a finished quilt. Inside are complete instructions for all 45 blocks in both sizes, three larger barn-and-tractor blocks, and fourteen finished projects, with full-color photos and diagrams throughout and a semi-concealed spiral binding that lies flat at the machine. Fabric, batting, backing, and notions are not included.

The Projects

The fourteen projects range from a quick potholder to a full bed-size sampler:

• Ten quilts: Quilty Barn, Silo Barn, Plow Day, Farm Fresh, County Fair, Picnic, Square Dance, Farmhouse Lane, Scrappy Haystack Sampler, and the Farm Girl Sampler on the cover
• Two table runners: Silo Barn and Harvest
• The Sowing Seeds table topper
• The Farm Kitchen potholder

What You'll Need

The blocks use conventional patchwork: rotary-cut squares, rectangles, and triangles joined with straight seams and simple stitch-and-flip corners, with no paper piecing anywhere in the book. The smaller size is a natural way to use scraps and fat quarters, and the projects scale up with yardage and precuts. A rotary cutter, mat, and ruler are the only tools required, and full fabric amounts for each project are inside the book.

Perfect For

• Quilters who want a large block library to mix and match rather than one fixed quilt
• Anyone building a scrappy sampler from fat quarters and leftover prints
• Fans of farmhouse and vintage-style designs that also work in modern solids
• Quilters who want patchwork with no paper piecing, in two ready-made block sizes

Why You'll Love This Book

This is the book that started the Farm Girl Vintage collection, and the appeal is how much one book gives back. The blocks read vintage in soft prints or bold in solids, the layout is up to the maker, and the techniques repeat from block to block, so the sewing gets faster as the farm animals and household motifs add up. The collection continues in Farm Girl Vintage 2, a second volume of 45 more blocks that drop into the same layouts.

The fourteen projects give the blocks somewhere to go, from a quick afternoon make to a full bed-size build. It is the kind of reference that stays on the shelf for years, because there is always another block to try or another way to set the ones already made.

Product Details

• Brand: It's Sew Emma
• Item #: ISE-906
• Author: Lori Holt
• Category: Quilt Pattern Book
• Skill Level: Confident Beginner to Intermediate (conventional patchwork piecing throughout; no paper piecing)
• Technique: Conventional Patchwork, Stitch-and-Flip
• Number of Blocks: 45 sampler blocks (each in 6-inch and 12-inch sizes), plus three barn-and-tractor blocks
• Number of Projects: 14
• Finished Sizes: Blocks finish at 6 inches and 12 inches; project sizes vary and are listed inside the book
• Pages: 144, full color
• Binding: Semi-concealed spiral with covered spine, soft cover
• Format: Printed Pattern Book
• Made in the United States