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My Happy Little Village from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I continue to make great progress whittling down my UFO list. I have finally dropped below 20 projects and I have a number of quilts that are entering the final stages.

Today I get to share my Happy Village quilt.

I started this quilt almost a decade ago. I hade made all the string blocks and then set everything aside. This has always been a quilt I either wanted to write a pattern or structure a class for.

I used the sew, flip and trim method for my flying geese roofs. Then I kept all those trimmed triangles to use ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 2 years, 7 months ago. under finished quilt , happy village , house block , scrap quilts

Oh Scrap! : Progress from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I knew my little scrappy house project would be a fairly fast finish. I already have the center of the quilt top all sewn up.

I decide to keep the strips vertical and stagger the houses.

Now it is time to decide how to use the HSTs for a border. I have enough to create this pattern on two sides to make an asymmetrical design.

Or I could add this sawtooth design to two corners.

To make the quilt more of a rectangular shape, I could add this design to the top and bottom of the quilt.

Pinwheels are always ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 2 years, 7 months ago. under house block , oh scrap! , scrap quilting

On My Design Wall from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I found some time this morning to sew the blocks that have been taking up space on my design wall for a couple of months into a quilt top. That means I can start working on something new!

I decided to work on the string blocks I shared Sunday. I am making some fun scrappy houses out of them. I haven't decided if I am going to run the stripes vertically or horizontal.

But I kind of like them vertically!

On the "flying geese" roofs, I am using the bonus triangles to create a bunch of HSTs - which I ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 2 years, 7 months ago. under house block , scrap quilts

My Temperature House Quilt Blocks are Marching Along from Life in the Scrapatch