Forgotten Houses

Rummaging through an un-finished project drawer

I came across 13 house blocks, these were

part of the RSC 2016 challenge

I have 13 blocks and the original plan was to

make considerably more than that over the year

but I found it difficult keeping to one colour

theme each month, project stalled!
A mix of Kaffe Fassett, Philip Jacobs, Jinny Beyer
fabrics with a few very old florals thrown in.

So, back to the machine yesterday with 12 of them

and here they are.
I decided not to add sashing,

 when they were up on the wall

I had a flash back to my childhood in Lancashire UK.

 We lived in terraced houses, 'though I was lucky

enough to be a few strides away from fields and a farm.

 These are not truly representative of rows of terraced rows

 but to me they say home, friends and family and surroundings

of childhood.

My next decision is whether to border or just bind - my gut

feeling is to leave this just as is and bind, it will hang on one of walls

in my sewing room to take me back to the wonderful times of

childhood.

What do you think?

Just having gone along to the mail box I feel that yes, Spring

is truly here, even though we're having a lot of rain. My tulips

from last year are all up and just about to open

only nine up this year.

On my mind at the moment are all who are

suffering from the devastation

in various parts of the USA.

Visiting
Julie
and
Linda
for sew stitch snap SHARE #12,
lots more goodies to see!

Also linking up with 

Scraptastic Tuesday - September

Stars on Saturday and Organisation

I should have Stars on Sunday as we're late afternoon presently

in New Zealand. It's always difficult to time a post just after Angela has

held the Link-up.

Three stars this week because I've been busy basting the quilt

for my grand-daughter and developed a tendon issue again

so it's been a case of basting for 15 mins at a time then resting the offending hand - which doesn't

actually get you very far!

However

one more light blue star

then on to  dark stars

the next one is a good example of working when extremely tired and sore

and below we have it with pieces correctly placed

that will be all my sewing for today - a new day tomorrow.

Plans for this week include beginning the quilting for afore mentioned

basted quilt, choosing fabric for and sewing another house block -

I'm thinking I may make a 16 block wall quilt rather than a full sized quilt with the houses.

Also project planning needs to be cleared up.

I would be interested to know how many of you out there have your computer separate

from your quilting studio. I have a very small room and struggle for space, I am overflowing

with stacked bins full of projects, scraps, strips etc. I have two machines, one

set in a cabinet for sewing and one in a largish table for quilting, I have stacked cubbies
holding yardage of my KF fabrics plus a closet minus doors
which holds my wire mesh baskets - with yet more fabric.
 I've been thinking

how workable it would be to move out my computer and printer but then

I figure I could be running from one room to another checking photos of

works in progress and settings which will probably become increasingly

annoying and  then involve time and effort in moving

it back again, also where is the best place for my blog reading and
creating. Any suggestions welcomed.

I'm off to link up now with all the super projects at

RSC 2016

and
Oh Scrap!

Have a happy week
Maureen

Blue Saturday

This post was meant to go out last night but

we had grandchildren staying so it shifted to this morning.

I am working on two projects for RSC 2016 with another in the process of

being worked out, anyway so far:

my house does have blue with accents of purple and a few

other colours in the mix there, as usual! I've made the chimneys taller rather

than the square ones I used many years ago on a quilt,

I rather like this version. 12" finished so definitely need two each month

to make a decent sized quilt. 

I love stars so this will be my second RSC project

6" and haven't decided on how many will be needed as yet.

You al know I love my flowers so as it's a blue month 

one of my blue hydrangeas

Lots of quilters have linked with 

Angela and RSC 2016

and

Cynthia at Oh Scrap!

so I'm off to have breakfast then have a look at the posts,

see you there!

Maureen