Awesome, I love your block Ronda. :) I need to get started on mine as well. I'm still concreteing my design.

rw--your house is super cute! ;)

Love your funky house it's great. Scraps are perfect for this.

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...h_f6d0c2ff.jpg

This is how it would look, but just doing "regular" funky houses would be no big deal.

I like it it's cute.

I just finnished three 12 in. funky house blocks and think yours are awesome and would go right with it. I hope you join.

Here is some inspiration for you this is Dotty's quilt she made when she had houses as her block of the month theme.

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That is Awesome.!! Thank you for posting.

How cool! Love it!

How cool. I am joining! I need to design the block.

I love her quilt and it's great to have inspiration.

Crafty-thanks for showing that! Lots of ideas! :)

Please -- keep those pictures coming. We all need the inspiration and motivation!!!!!!

rw--love all three of your cute houses!! ;)

We're up to 17 one from Germany. If you want to see the list it's on my blog.

I am off to Road to California Quilter's convention tomorrow but I did start another set of three funky house blocks. I am planning to read up on Gwen Marston Liberated Quiltmaking (the first book) http://gwenmarston.com/index.htm to get some further tips. I love the funky houses posted by rwquilts.

Are we supposed to put borders on these blocks? Confused about this when reading some of the posts.

Just make a block anyway you want. The one that's quilted is one Dotty made and I wanted to show it for inspiration. If you notice rw doesn't have a border on hers. If you want it to have a border then you can. Hope that makes sense.

I was very interested on how that question was going to be answered. A lot of people don't need borders. Because the seam to be able to have their finished block the correct size. I have a hugh problem with my blocks coming out the correct size. So a lot of times I have to use borders to even things out. I know, I'm practing on the cutting and 1/4 inch seams. I'm pretty sure that's where my problem is. Thank goodness these are wonky. Went on a shop hop yesterday and will finish it up tomorrow. Have seen lots of inspirational regular houses. Will start constructing mine this weekend.

Hey Judith 1005, a tip that I learned from a book from Mary Sue Collins who does minatures a lot, is that when you cut be sure to put the line on the full side of the fabric and not to edge, that sliver can make or break an accurate block, especially in minatures. You can tell on an Omni Grid ruler, the yellow lines and black lines for measuring. Try on a yellow line setting the full yellow on the side of the main piece of fabric and then cut. This does help. I also watched this on the old H&G quilt show with Alex Anderson.

Thank you. I will definitely try that. And this weekend I will go to the web site and see if the video is on there. What great tips I get from everyone here.

I've made 3 3inch bird houses and one 9 inch lighthouse so far. Are they all okay?

There great I love them.

Those are awesome. I love them both.

Anyhow, I'm in and will post some blocks as soon as I get some done.

Great look forward to seeing them.

You got my vote to include embroidery too!

Hi,
Well, I told myself I was going to finish a lot of my other things before I join anything else...but, I have been wanting to make a house quilt for a while...So, count me in!! I love the outhouse idea...I also have a quilt I made, a sampler that includes an old time red schoolhouse, I put a cobblestone roof on it, would 1 block like that be ok? I can post a pic of it if anyone isn't sure... I also am fine with embroidery/applique, and a doghouse, too...I love the quilt shop idea! I would like to kind of make mine into an around the neighborhood quilt...wonky or not! :)
Can't wait to see all the blocks!!
Kif

We love pictures. I got some great house block patterns in a book I'm looking forward to doing them.

I love the idea of a neighborhood quilt - with an outhouse and lighthouse and stores! Sifting through my patterns and will come up with something so put me down too! Embroidery is ok - but I am more of traditional rather than funky/wonky

Great to have you and I will mark down your preferences.

Went looking and found patterns for our town:
row houses: http://www.quilterscache.com/R/RowHousesBlock.html
farmhouse: http://www.quilterscache.com/F/FarmhouseBlock.html
log house: http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LogHouseBlock.html
church: http://www.quilterscache.com/C/ChurchBlock.html
barn: http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TheOldRedBarnBlock.html
school: http://www.quilterscache.com/O/OhioS...ouseBlock.html
another school: http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SchoolhouseBlock.html

I am getting confused! Are we doing 'funky' as in bright colors and fanciful or are we doing a regular town kind of thing?

Love these!

FYI
These are some great blocks, but most of them are 10 inch blocks so they will have to be modified for our 3,6, 9, 12, inch block sizes.

Yeah, I'm confused too. We're talking apples and oranges here. I wouldn't want to mix a contemporary "funky" with a country-styled schoolhouse.

Most are doing funky there are enough in the swap that I can fulfill both. Most have said they want either. I marked who don't want funky so make what you want and have fun. I have kept track of who wants what so you will get what your heart desires.