My FAVORITE House Blocks! Let's See Yours!!

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01-10-2012, 09:25 AM

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4EVERquilt

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OMG!! I love em all!! I want to make a quilt someday with birdhouses and human houses. I absolutely enjoyed looking at all your work. Spectacular!!

01-10-2012, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by oksewglad

Hey n2, I just scrolled through all these pages, and didn't see any postings from me. Boy did I miss this one! FYI, I started making little houses-one a day-- course mine are all straight (well I try to make them) and simple, but love the wonky ones too. No pics yet. Here's the link I started with:

http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/

Since I don't like to PP (still!) I made my own little block in EQ to sew; just a simple 3 inch block to piece. I've been going through my 1 and 1 1/4" strips to get the pieces for them and have enough for about 50 blocks, but one a day that's only 6 weeks of blocks. lol I am planning to make like 7 a day once a week instead of the "one a day" plan. Here's my EQ block

Thank you for sharing your block! Many others may want to use it too! It's a nice little salt box type, country style, typical Americana. You might want to applique doors and windows as I think it's much faster than piecing them together. Also, since PP is so time-consuming, the houses can be made strip-piecing and assembly style.

I'll post a pic of a simpler house to piece if you want. Let me hunt the pic and post here if I can find it. It's great if you want a really fast made house!

Also, thanks for the link. Hey, G, I posted a pic of a wonky house a few posts down for you to see how simply one can be made without trying! You might want to do something like this as it is much faster! n2

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01-10-2012, 10:14 AM

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Excuse all the threads on this pic, but I wanted to show you a wonky house I made some time ago that is just adorable. I had no idea it was a house until I looked at it!! I was randomly sewing pieces together and look what happened!! The Lord made this house for me as a surprise to lift me up when I was feeling blue! Voila! a darling little house!

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01-10-2012, 10:18 AM

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cowgirlquilter

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Those are ALL absolutely adorable!!

01-10-2012, 10:19 AM

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n2scraplvr

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Originally Posted by 4EVERquilt

OMG!! I love em all!! I want to make a quilt someday with birdhouses and human houses. I absolutely enjoyed looking at all your work. Spectacular!!

Thank you so much 4EVERquilt! You might like this pic of some birdhouses I found not long ago -- it's so cute. You might want to try these! Also, my house pic collection is just that -- none made by me -- just pics collected for great inspiration!

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01-10-2012, 01:42 PM

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That is a awesome collection.

01-10-2012, 05:19 PM

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I just found 18 more pics I was missing. If some are repeats, just ignore. Crafty3790, this is for you! Thanks for linking to my thread! Here are the pics:

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