Progress report on Lori Holt quilts - Home town quilt and Neighborhood Top

I’m currently actively making two of Lori Holt’s quilts.

I’m working on the blocks for the Neighborhood quilt found in the Quilty Fun book.

 

I’ve already made the center. I then started on the outer blocks.

I’ve had great fun making these, believe it or not. I thought those little stars would be far more tedious than they actually are. I’ve not made them all, actually, of course, but I’m pretty certain a couple more kind of long focused sewing times and I’d have them all done. That would leave me with all the main blocks finished for this top.

I am trying to make the extra blocks needed for the cover quilt on the front of this book. Let me share that one with you. I made the extra house blocks needed for that one.

I’m also working on the first block of the Home Town quilt - and I wanted to show you where I am on that. I’m not terribly far but a couple more hours or less and I could have this one well on its way to being finished.

This Home Town quilt is made up of all applique blocks and as long as you have the Sew Simple Shapes - you don’t actually need a pattern - just the guide that Lori has made which is a free sew-along guide. I downloaded it here. Wait. That’s not true. There are also some pieced blocks like these.

 

I finally got my bias tape makers and I showed them to you last week. Now I need to get up the nerve to actually use them and make the final progress on this first block.

 

I am also working on the extra blocks on the Scarecrow quilt - need to make 22 blocks like this. I’ve got part of each of these done but have 10 completely done. I don’t yet have the Sew Simple Shapes yet, so I’ll just make these blocks and set them aside until they can wait for me to get the shapes.

I’ve also decided to make up the Lori Holt neighborhood house blocks found in a book I don’t yet have (Scrappiness is Happiness). I hope to get it soon, though. I’ll see if Rachael can get it in and then I can easily have the patterns for these interesting blocks. I did figure this first one out, however. It’s a house block.

House blocks really aren’t that different from each other. I’m trying to make a bunch of different ones in order for me to get very familiar with how to make them. So far, recently I made Hillside Houses, then this Neighborhood quilt and I’ve been studying a few other quilt patterns I would like to try to make.

Oh, I also did the Schoolhouses Block quilt as well. That is a classic block. I’ve actually gotten this one quilted - quite a while ago actually. I’d forgotten about it. I’ll write this one up and show you the photos very soon!

While I don’t mind have several quilts in various stages of constructions - in fact, I do that on purpose as it tends to keep me engaged in sewing. Sometimes things we do are tedious and while doing the tedious things I find myself making excuses to not go into the sewing room because I really don’t want to do them. However, once I get at least a few minutes of tedious things done, I allow myself to start something more fun. It’s the way I can maintain more productivity.

However, because Lori Holt does have various house quilts in different books, I hope to do several from her books. :) In her Christmas book, there is a gingerbread house. In one of her farm books, she has a farmhouse block. There is also a barn block.

 

You see, The Electric Quilt program has several house blocks, but I’ve not known how to make them without making them as paper pieced. I was looking to NOT do paper pieced. I don’t mind one or two blocks that way, but it is slow to me, and if I’m going to do a lot of that, I’d like to make one of Judy Niemeyer’s quilts. :)

So that’s a summary of what I’ve done on these quilt tops.

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this.























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