Bright little houses!

I was so pleased with my little purple house that I decided to make some more. I am working my way through my collection of bright Kona solids and I thought if I was really clever I could use it as my very own colour chart!

Each little house in its Kona colour and I will embroider the name of the colour on or beside the house!  No more trying to work out which colour I want from the screen I shall just check my schoolhouse chart.  Of course there are lots of colours I do not have....yet!

These are Corn Yellow, Purple, Papaya,  Caribbean blue, Tangerine, Chartreause, Schoolbus, Cerise and Ochre






Could become a bit of a village...as long as it doesn't turn out to be The Village.  Funnily enough I have been enjoying looking at Kaffe Fassett's book quilt romance - the setting for the photos is Portmeirion, which was also the setting for the 1967 cult series The Prisoner.   If you don't know what on earth I'm on about this link will take you there!   I am number one!  You are number six!  Sorry they say that a lot!

Not so good today was finding out that the HST strips I had being sewing together leader/ender style while making my houses were the wrong way around!  

Yes I am onto horizontal rows not vertical and they need to be joined together differently so I have a pile of work for my little unpicker!  Wish I had not been so diligent before I noticed....sigh!  Still I managed to sew some together correctly and I have a lot more to make...

Any suggestions of colours to include in my schoolhouse chart?  Only bright colours will do for this one!  




Nicky

Little school house!

I enjoyed making the little house quilt/mat so much I decided to try another one but this time using only two fabrics.  To update this traditional block I am using a Kona solid purple and Wordplay by Benartex. 

It is actually a school house block so what could be better than a background of words to the old school building.  See if you can read the block - a few words are legible.

Where next with this?

Not quite sure...possibly more blocks with different solid colours, but the same background.  I might even end up with a small quilt full.

For today following a late-night or early morning conversation with Liz from Quilterie I have decided to get out my applique quilt - my oldest UFO from 2005 - and start getting those blocks trimmed and sashed with HSTs.  She has been very persuasive in motivating me and I think it is time for this quilt to be finished! 


This is how it should look when complete

from the book Friendship's Garden by Blackbird Designs aka Alma Allen & Cherie Ralston.  I also have to do the applique border but all my blocks are finished.  If you want to see how it looks now follow the links below.


Wish me luck with this one..!


Nicky






previous posts
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no1.html
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no-2.html
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no-3.html