copycat

The 2013 Guild Challenge is to make a quilt that must have a minimum of six, 6 1/2" blocks that must be a habitat of some kind. (houses, pond for fish, chicken coup for hens, anything you consider a habitat.
Each member was given a different fat quarter that must be in one or more blocks. Mine was blue with tiny flowers. We are encouraged to use our stash to make the six blocks but may also use new fabric if need be. Any style of quilting is acceptable.

If anyone has any ideas/links to help me decide on what my habitat could be, please send them my way.
Thanks for letting me pick your brains and have a happy quilting kind of day! Copycat

alikat110

I think "birdhouse". That's what came to mind when I read your fabric is now with flowers.

patchsamkim

Google house quilt blocks...you will see images for house blocks, and you can click on each one to get to the original site...you will be overwhelmed with possibilities!

gramajo

First thought, off the top of my head, would be an appliqued farm theme. You could do a block of each animal in its shelter, pasture, corral, bees buzzing around flowers, moles tunneling through the ground pushing the grass up (think I've had a mole problem?), field mice entering the house through a small hole in the foundation, etc.

I have a whimsical streak in me and think this would be a fun theme to pursue. Of course, not everyone has my sense of the 'silly', but it could be a fun quilt to make. In fact, I think I'll put this idea on my list of 'someday' quilts--when I finish some of my UFOs.

Let us see the progress of the quilt while you're making it. And of course the finished product.

QuiltnNan

you can do a 'timeline' of abodes from caves to our present houses.

joyce888

Birdhouse, Butterfly house, Fairy house.

booklady1952

You might want to consider a dog house, a bird's nest, a tent or teepee, a camper or RV, a boat, a tree house, and a toad "abode."

Tartan

What kind of blocks do you plan to make? Pieced or applique? I think it would be fun to look for unusual houses like igloo, teepee, tree house, space ship, house boat...

Holice

expend your thinking from "houses" to other kinds of habitates.......isn't a flower pot a habitate for flower seed and the growing flowers" - a vase is a temperory habitate for a group of flowers? A window sill box with growing flowers.
Think beyone the obvious

copycat

I will most likely do pieced and applique blocks after deciding on a theme. Thanks to everyone for their input.
2 heads are better than one and I appreciate your great ideas to consider.

The challenge is due in July so I have time to dream after looking through my scraps.
I do like the advice to "think beyond the obvious" such as flower pots and window sill boxes as habitats for flowers. What fun ideas you smart ladies have given me. thanks. stay tuned!