Wednesday 12 May 2010

When did the village get so big?

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!

4 comments:

  1. I totally love it. Wonky houses are my favorite thing to piece. Have you tried the letters yet?

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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!

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  4. this is a blast! wonderful. by the way, love your header photo!

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