House-o-rama

I saw that some of you visited when I posted my neighborhood on my blog the other day--Thanks for the nice wishes. I am making more houses and having a great time. The repetition theme has been really helpful in getting me to feel more in control of what I am creating, but also feeling like I can let more of the "un-known" in because it is just a "study" for me. I am so excited about assembling more and more together and then attaching them all together to make something big, the middle part is probably 2ft by 3.5ft and it is so fun to see all the different pieces of fabric working together and playing off each other and sometimes just quarreling. I love it. I love seeing what everyone else is doing too. Keep posting!

house X5

Thanks for all of the great feedback the other day...I think that I am over the Grrr--argh part right now about the houses (my son is calling the big ones hotels)...I woke up at 5 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep---All I wanted to do was sew, sew, sew....

SO I did, and after listening to my husband go on about how he LOVES my larger quilts that we can actually use--I am going to try to make this one big!!! I am also flirting with the free-hand fans (we just got tivo and I am needing some hand work.)

BUT first things first--I am just sewing and cutting, cutting and sewing. I am leaving the "hotels" at the moment to work on a weird hill and a setting--maybe an inner border around the houses on the hill and then some trees around that---then some stars---WORDS-- the sky is the limit. Maybe my brain will let me sleep tonight???? Can you tell that I am excited??-- and the final project isn't that important to me at this point and that is refreshing--there are parts of what I have that I really like and others, not so much---BUT the "whole" I am quite satisfied with...hooray! (the other houses are not trashed, but I am not looking at them right now--maybe in a few days.) Have a fabulous weekend!!!

Starting...learning...

Not my finest photo--but whatever, I had to get a post up. The small houses were started a few weeks ago--they are OK to me, but REALLY need a larger setting to blend in somewhere. The yellow house was my attempt last week--I was trying to get rid of some scraps and now this house is teaching me all about color value---I don't think that there is enough of a difference between the background fabric and the yellow dotty fabric....but initially it looked fine to me.


I was very inspired by Kristin La Flamme's work on houses and made some taller houses this morning...I also found some blue background that reads as a medium and I like it a lot and I have an amount of it, so maybe I can make a few more and see where this goes... we will see. Glad to finally get a post in---I have been reading what people have been posting and it is just great!! Love all the quilting!

Hooray for SO many people!!!

Hi all,
I am Jessica from Oregon (jmbmommy.blogspot.com)...I am so thrilled to have so many people to quilt with. I just made my first wonky house for a little spring wall-hanging (I am keeping it for myself, I think.) and I am wanting to do some houses en masse...or some trees, which I am very partial to....or I could do that crazy star quilt that I have always wanted.

Well, let's just say I am going to be busy, busy, busy! I am very excited to see what people get going on!
JMB