I made this house. It’s kind of conventional compared to the others but if you look closely, the bottom half fabric is snakeskin so I guess someone quite wild might live here 🙂
I have also been making wonky cross blocks for the border of this quilt. I like the way they look, sort of a crazy picket fence:
While the boys played the Wii earlier, I made use of Gman’s lovely big bedroom floor to lay out all of the blocks and wow, the village is getting pretty big :-).
Not sure how to sew them all together but thought I would add bits to the sides of each house block so I could have columns of equal width to sew together eg one column where everything is 12 inches wide, one 15 inches wide etc. If I try and vary which side I add the bits to, this shouldn’t look too uniform hopefully. So, now to make some random bits to make blocks up to size :-). I’m thinking half square triangles, little log cabin blocks, strippy bits…and maybe a few more trees and stars. What fun!
I totally love it. Wonky houses are my favorite thing to piece. Have you tried the letters yet?
By: joyce on May 12, 2010
at 10:50 pm
You and your liberated houses will be my inspiration to make my own houses! I love working that way, but I still tend to “control” everything too much. Your quilt will look great when finished. Kathleen C.
By: kathleen on May 12, 2010
at 11:37 pm
Thank you both, I am glad you like them. I haven’t tried letters yet, but may well add my son’s name to the quilt somewhere which will give me an excuse to have a go!
By: snoozerider on May 13, 2010
at 8:00 am
this is a blast! wonderful. by the way, love your header photo!
By: Tonya Ricucci on June 7, 2010
at 8:01 pm