Because we all did some travelling this summer, and not at the same time, we cancelled several weeks of quilt group and got a little behind with our progress. Over the course of three sewing weeks, we managed to get our four houses done. They vary wildly in fabric and color choices, as well as background choices because we are very individual when it comes to this quilt! We cut and sewed the first house on the same day but then decided to cut out all three in a marathon cutting session, start sewing and finishing sewing the next week. Because our houses were all made of completely different fabric, we all cut our own houses rather than each person cutting all the pieces out of one fabric for all of us as we do on the 1930’s quilt. If you’ve ever done any fabric cutting of lots of varied size pieces, it takes focus. We find that repeating the dimensions out loud to ourselves as we check the pattern and then as we cut is very helpful in avoiding mistakes. So a cutting day sounds like this: “two rectangles of cream 1 1/4″ by 3 1/2” “I need to cut three windows out of the same fabric” “Oh darn it!” “the light blue is a triangle with three rectangles while the dark blue is five rectangles” “Wait! Is that three or four green 2 1/2″ squares?” “three strips 1 1/2″ by 12”, all murmured quietly and somewhat continuously, interspersed with louder exclamations of “For the love, I did it again!” uttered by me. A visitor during cutting time would fall on the floor laughing hysterically.
ShaRee houses
Sue houses
Terry houses
And in late August we got all the blocks pieced together without the borders. We were so proud of ourselves, we had to take photos. We all hate doing borders so decided to do them together to cut down on the agony.
ShaRee top without borders
Sue top without borders
Terry top without borders
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