Good morning cute people!
I hope you had a lovely weekend like I did.
We were able to spend some time
at my parents little farm for
a Fathers Day backyard BBQ with the whole family...
which is a large crowd!
Today I am posting the tractor block tutorial
(for the label on the back of the quilt)
that I told you I designed in the beginning of
I know it's not Wednesday...
but I will be out of town for
our normal day so I prepared this post for today
and you will have something fun to sew while I'm away:)
I will be teaching a 3 day workshop in Idaho at
and I'm so excited!
Now onto the Vintagey Farm Girl Tractor block tutorial:)
Start by choosing your fabric.
I'm going to use this block for the label on my first quilty barn quilt.
And because the barns are all red ....
I chose to make a green tractor for a nice contrast on the back of the quilt:)
Cut a piece of green tractor fabric 6 1/2" x 16 1/2"
Subcut into;
1 - 2 1/2" x 10 1/2"
2 - 2 1/2" squares
1 - 3 1/2" x 9 1/2"
1 - 1 1/2" x 6 1/2"
1 - 1 1/2" x 4 1/2"
1 1 1/2" square
Cut a piece of yellow fabric 6 1/2" x 11"
Subcut into;
1 - 1 1/2" 10 1/2"
1 - 4 1/2" square
1 - 3 1/2" square
1 - 1 1/2" square
Cut gray fabric 4 1/2" x 8"
Subcut into;
1 - 1 1/2" x 7 1/2"
1 - 2 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Cut dark gray into 2 1/2" x 27"
and
1 1/2" x 31"
Subcut into;
2 - 2 1/2" x 8 1/2"
2 - 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"
2 - 1 1/2" 5 1/2"
2 - 1 1/2" x 3 1/2"
8 - 1 1/2" squares
Cut a 5 1/2"x Width of Fabric strip from your background fabric.
Subcut into;
1 - 5 1/2" x 7 1/2"
1 - 5 1/2" x 4 1/2"
1 - 5 1/2" x 3 1/2"
5 - 2 1/2" squares
1 - 4 1/2" x 14 1/2"
Also cut 3 - 1 1/2" x Width of Fabric strips from the background.
Subcut into;
2 - 1 1/2" x 20 1/2"
2 - 1 1/2" x 18 1/2"
1 - 6 1/2"
2 - 1 1/2" x 2 1/2"
9 1 1/2" squares
Now that you are all cut...
lay out all pieces on your design board.
Don't worry if you don't know exactly what goes where...
I am going to plow you right through it!
We will construct the tractor in sections
and then sew the sections together
to complete the block!
Let's begin with the top section pieces.
(white 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" and 4 1/2" x 14 1/2", white 1 1/2" square and green 1 1/2" x 4 1/2")
Sew an Easy Corner Triangle to the top of the smokestack like this.
Then sew it in-between the white rectangles.
Press towards the white.
Set aside.
Next is the front section of the tractor.
(gray 2 1/2" x 6 1/2", 1 1/2" x 6 1/2" white along with 2 white 1 1/2" squares)
Sew the Easy Corner Triangles onto the gray.
Trim, press and sew the white strip on the left.
Press towards the white and set aside.
Let's start building the main body of the tractor.
Start with the above pieces.
(2 1/2" x 10 1/2" green, 1 1/2" x 10 1/2" yellow, 1 1/2" yellow square and 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" white)
Sew the green and yellow together and press towards the yellow.
Now sew the Easy Corner Triangle onto the bottom left corner of the white.
Trim, press and sew to the green and yellow strips segment.
Press towards the green/yellow.
You will need both a green and a white 2 1/2" squares along with a white 1 1/2" square.
Construct the above segment and press towards the white.
Now place another white 2 1/2" square onto the bottom of
the section like this and sew from corner to corner.
Trim and press towards triangle.
You have just formed the slanted tractor seat!
Now you will sew this section to the side of the
green/yellow/white section like this.
You will need to stop sewing about 1" before you reach the end.
Don't worry!...
this is called a partial seam
and you will finish it up in just a bit:)
For this next segment you will need the
green 1 1/2" x 6 1/2", 2 1/2" square and the 3 1/2" x 9 1/2" rectangle.
Also grab a 2 1/2" x 8 1/2" tire strip
along with one 2 1/2" white square.
Sew Easy Corner Triangles onto
each side of the tire top like this.
Trim and press toward the triangles.
You will sew another partial seam using the green strip onto the top of the tire.
Again, stop about 1" before you get to the end of the green strip like this.
Now sew the large green rectangle to the
side of the tire top/green strip segment.
Press towards the large rectangle.
Sew these completed sections together like this.
Now we can begin finishing up those partial seams!
Start by finishing up the first one...
like this.
Press seam allowance away from the tractor seat.
Now finish up this partial seam...
like this!
Press seam allowance away from the tire...
like this:)
Now add the front of the tractor onto
the end of the left side.
Press seam towards the gray.
Now you are ready to sew the top of the block to the middle of the block!
Press seam towards the top.
Let's keep plowing through to the bottom sections of the tractor:)
I'm sure you can figure out where the remaining pieces belong:)
These are all of the pieces for the bottom of the large tire.
Sew the easy corner triangles...
And join the section together.
Move on to the bottom center section...
Easy peasy!!!
Now for the last section...
The small tire.
Make the easy corner triangles...
And sew it together.
And now you can see that the 3 sections will fit perfectly together!
Just like this:)
Add the 1 1/2" x 20 1/2" strips to the top and
then the 1 1/2" x 18 1/2" strips to the sides.
The block will finish at 18" x 22".
I am now in the process of adding a steering wheel using a little embroidery...
and also doing the embroidered words on the block for the label.
Then I will be adding a cute pieced border around the whole block!
(a tutorial for the border to come as well)
I'll show my finished block
to you as soon as I can:)
I thought you might like to see how I pressed all of my seams...
And that's the end of my
Vintagey Farm Girl Tractor block tutorial for now...
please...please...please...
tell me you love it as much as I do!
Have a vintagey tractor makin' kind of week!
xx
Lori
P.S. Of course you know...
this means that
I will be making a tractor quilt too!!!
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