My favourite project that I have made so far is a Scnibbles pattern from Miss Rosie's quilt company called Full House. It's neat little pattern that uses two charm packs to make a baby quilt. I've seen some traditional house blocks like schoolhouse and decided to have a go making my own on Threadbias.
On the Threadbias website there is a quilt design tool that you can use for free as long as you are happy with a 9" workspace. If you want to use the full tool and workspace you can by taking part in the design challenges Threadbias hosts or paying a monthly subscription. I played around with it and managed to come up with the house above using Cocquette Fabric by Chez Moi for Moda. It was great fun. I liked my house so much I made four of them and put them together to make a pieced front for a 24" cushion I want to cover.
To make this involves a bit of piecing so I worked out how to put it together and the fabric requirement to make this and had great fun playing with Maths. Adding borders would get me to my needed size
So far so good. Realising the roof of the house could be a bit tricky I decided to test my design yesterday evening. I now understand the importance of pattern testing. I'd forgotten there is a knack to Half Rectangle Triangles and that I would need a right one and a left one.
So this is where I am with this project, pattern mostly written, cutting and piecing all ok except the roof! Going to have another go at this again tonight!
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LOVE your houses!! They are so much fun! Stopping n from WiP Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteHi Amy thanks - houses really are addictive.! I love your village project!
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