Where is everybody?

[MontanaGramma]

Annis, I love your quilts and was just about to say "I recognize that quilt hanger" when I saw Marilyn's remark. Marilyn, my brother made it. Annis met him in Houston. You can google their web site http://www.summerskycreations.com He does custom hangers and also has some premade, as you will see on the site. :-)

[MontanaGramma]

http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.co.uk/ here is an alternative for little houses blocks...

Great quilts Margo & Rita. Just back from a weekend of camping & canoeing and am absolutely knackered! will try & do an update tomorrow... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[MontanaGramma]

I might be interested in doing the house block exchange that Rita mentioned. Edyta Sitar has some strip houses in her book Friendship Strips & Scraps that I have been considering for a long time. However, the Kaffe houses look even easier.

[RGold]

Robin, the economy block is a free pattern on Craftsy - 5 1/2 inch block. There's also a paper-pieced download for the same block.

Thank you, NanaPie!

[Reetzbobeetz]

Annis your quilts are so pretty. I am looking forward to seeing the photos of your newly restored retreat studio. As for the Kaffe Fassett house block I just did a test one. OMG they finish at 2 1/8th inches. Way too small for me and far too fiddly. Edyta's house block is actually relatively easy to do once you have got the knack of sewing 1" strips together. But equally they could be done with one piece of fabric for the body of the house rather than strips.

[loise98]

Where is Edyta's house block to be found? I think that sounds like fun.

[MontanaGramma]

Lois, it is in her book Friendship Strip and Scraps.

[Margo]

And this is a new one of Edyta's:

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/o...mp;id=36427398

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/o...mp;id=36427398

[suehenyon]

Carol Doak has a 3 inch block in the e-book that comes with her Craftsy class. She has a 4 inch house in the book 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks. Neither one looks particularly fiddly. We may just have to decide on a finished size.

[MontanaGramma]

I like that one Margo.

[Sewdreamy]

Electric quilt has lots of house blocks from simple to elaborate. Here are some of them:

[idaho]

Laundry Basket ones are a bit big...4 in. or 6in. would be nice....house blocks have several pieces
in most cases....and paper-pieced is the easiest,IMHO.....

[Sewdreamy]

At the opening of show 601 with Jinny Beyer, Alex shows how to make her welcome home house block.

[idaho]

Sherry....Thanks for the link ! They do beautiful work ! Might have to order something !!

[ajclapp]

Marilyn, I ordered several of their hangers over a year ago. I'm just now starting to get quilts put on them. They are very well made and they have such pretty designs!

I've already made several house quilts. This is one of them with 3" blocks. If I were to make another one it would be for a friend who recently made a comment about the first house quilt I made about 35 years ago, and the blocks would be much larger to make it at least lap size. I really need to do that but not sure when I will fit it into my schedule.