Colour Inspiration Tuesday: Welcome to My House blog hop

My house is part shambles, part memories, part make-do, and all love. So is my mini quilt!

Welcome to My House! This is my stop on the latest fun blog hop being hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt where every stop has a project with a house on it.

Well…… most stops……. technically my mini quilt doesn’t feature a house after all. I started with the best of intentions, but being improv, it evolved slightly.

But it is a quilt that features the essence of a building, and every kid you know will wish they lived there. And it started life as a house quilt. So I think it still counts. Welcome to the “my kids wish it was” My House blog hop stop!

 

Is that your house quilt?! Are you serious?

Well……… You guys should know by now that I take the quality of my stitching seriously. I even do my very best when I make patterns for you. But do I take the subject matter of my quilts seriously? Hahahahaha! Nah, not so much!  I especially enjoyed making this little wall quilt. It basically invented itself, so technically its oddities may not even be my fault. 🙂

Welcome to My House

My real house is middle-aged. Not old enough to have history, and too old to be trendy. And it has been added onto at least twice, with less attention to quality with each addition.  So its features are probably best summed up as large and functional and ours. What better way then, to represent it, but with an improv house made by continuous and haphazard addition of fabric scraps?

Most of these fabric scraps came from a kaleidoscope quilt I made for a friend a long time ago. This little quilt is also embellished with memories from people now passed on – buttons from my hubby’s Gran, lace from my Mum and costume jewellery from a great-aunt. 

It has a door and a window. Walls, a tiled roof, a lawn, a path, a fence and a garden. Can you spot everything?

It may help you to see some of the elements if I turn it over and show you the back….

As far as construction goes, the quilt top was repeatedly put together and deconstructed with improv piecing and appliqué until I was satisfied. There was no grand plan. 

I then franken-stitched together two scraps of cotton batting so that the fluffy edges were at the top and bottom. I decided that liked the look of the edges, so I left the batting exposed beyond the edges of the quilt top and backed it with a white cotton. Once it was quilted I trimmed it square and to protect the edges on the back I simply glued on some woven tape I had lying around left over from making the kids’ library bags. 

There are plenty of raw edges on the front, but fraying  won’t detract from this quilt, so I didn’t do anything to protect them. Besides, most of the quilt top fabrics are batiks and won’t fray much anyway.

And then it wasn’t a house anymore…..

You might be wondering why my house has two sweets quilted onto it. Well, after it was made it reminded me more of an old style corner store than my home. You know, the store where you would go in as a kid and buy lollies by pointing at jars under the counter and asking for the exact number of each type you wanted. And your purchase would be handed to you in a little white paper bag for a few cents. So I quilted sweets onto it, and that’s how it evolved from a house to a lolly shop.

With the dreamy cloud-like edges, the perfect name for this little mini seemed to be “Sweet Daydream”. So that’s what’s written on the label.

Wouldn’t it be fun to do a whole series of “dream” quilts like this?! All with the same batting feature, but different houses/buildings and different colour stories…..  Yes. Yes it would. 🙂

But now it’s time to feature something from last week’s linky. What to choose for a House Quilt blog hop?

Obviously, the feature this week has to go to last week’s most house-related quilt link up. And that honour goes to Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing who linked up her Island Batik blog hop quilt called “My Victorian Window”.  Kathleen designed her quilt to celebrate the Victorian house that she lived in for many years, including its bullseye cornerstones. I think her quilt hits the mark, don’t you? 🙂

My sincerest thanks to everyone who linked up last week. If you were featured you can find a badge of honour here.

Link up to the Chameleon’s  Linky Party and show us your projects

What are you working on, or have recently finished in your sewing room? Link up a blog post, a Flicker pic, an IG post or simply a photo from your computer.  See if you can hit the bullseye and get the Chameleon to turn quilted with happiness. We’d love to see your quilting colours.

Guidelines (more detail here):

• Link up your latest or recent quilt excitement. All construction stages welcome.
• You have 100 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
• URLs are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, simply link up with just a photo. 
• Do it now……. before you forget!

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Now: a warm invitation to go visit the rest of today’s Welcome To My House blog hoppers. You can also find the rest of the week’s schedule here.

September 11 Welcome To My House blog posts

MooseStash Quilting
Vroomans Quilts
Marjorie’s Busy Corner
Patchouli Moon Studio
Desert Sky Quilting
Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc.
Sew Many Yarns

Enjoy!

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