the little house challenge subject came up again last week on the Stashbuster yahoo group. i had printed some foundation patterns for these, but they were 3" and 5", neither of which excited me. but kaaren, a fellow quilter just over the northern border, kindly sent me her 4" version. yesterday decided to play out of my scrap basket and try them out. caution: they are fun to make and i got 4 done fairly quickly. the most difficult part was choosing the fabrics. my scrap basket isn't that full so i pulled out the large shoebox of strips. i decided to make red doors on all of them in homage to my first quilting teacher, who had a shop called "the red door" quilt shop and then used black for chimneys. i don't think i'll make 365 of them, but enough for a small quilt anyway. love the scrappiness of them!
Very cute little houses, Grace. Love the continuity the black chimneys and red doors give in spite of all the scrappiness. Are all the windows yellow?
ReplyDeleteI've only made one house block in my life. I have a pattern I plan to make eventually, I just never get it on the top of my priority list.
Nice little blocks!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of having a PLAN for my scraps. Need to think of a good one. Is the plan to make one a day?
Really cute houses, Grace! I had fun making Bonnie Hunter's houses which are larger, but by the time I'd made 20, I never wanted to do another one! LOL!
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