The Wonky House is Done!

I just could not put this project down last weekend!  I tell you, this hobby is addictive, but in a good way!  I took my little quilt outside when the sun was lower in the sky on Monday night...perfect lighting to see all of my hand quilting.

I started the house block at a workshop in September 2013 with Becky Goldsmith at Piece O' Cake. She was the guest speaker at our meeting and then 20 of us attended an applique workshop with her the next day.  I finished the applique within a couple of weeks of the workshop but did not get back to working on it until about a month ago when I started adding embroidery and buttons and then hand quilted it. The finished size is about 15.5" square. I plan on adding a hanging sleeve and displaying it somewhere in my house.

I even had Becky sign the label for me...

 This was a fun little project! 

My next handwork project will be a wool applique block started at a workshop earlier this year taught by Jill Buckley aka, The Quilt Rat.  (more embroidery and some beads this time instead of buttons!)



Wonky House Project continued...

This week, I finished off the embellishments on my wonky house applique project.  I added a few more flowers and some more grass.

The purple buttons are actually upside-down. I thought the back of the button looked more like a flower!

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you will know that I do not do hand quilting. I learned a long time ago how to hand quilt, but since I work full time, I have always chosen to pay someone else to quilt my bigger projects and machine quilt my smaller projects on my DSM. Since this project has been almost all done by hand, except the borders, I decided it needed hand quilting.

I used 1" green painters tape to do a 1" cross hatch on the house block. I also quilted in the ditch around the house and the tree.  Don't look too closely at the stitches... :-)

I have some more thread colours picked out and a design in mind for the orange and triangle borders.  With any luck, I might be able to finish this project this week.

Come back next week and maybe there will be a finished project to share!

Slow Sunday Embroidery, Part 2

I have made a bit of progress on my wonky house block that I showed you in last week's post.  I have added a few flowers...

and some muntins in the windows...

a door knob...

and some grass...

and a flagstone walkway.

Perhaps I will have some time to work on this project again this week.

BTW: The new picture I have posted as my header was taken in Iceland at Pingvellir National Park.