Some little houses fun....

I recently got sidetracked with trying out a pattern I bought a year and a half ago.  I had done Cluck Cluck Sew's Suburbs pattern as a lap quilt in 2016.  I spotted the mini pattern on a quilt trip and always wanted to make it.  Our small guild is doing a house challenge to make 100 houses, so I thought I'd try this pattern out to see if I liked the size.  I couldn't decide on the cool or warm colour version so since it was a small quilt, I made both 😀.  Love how they turned out.  They are the perfect size to fit into my little seasonal stand....bonus!

The cool colour version with snow on the ground

This house print has been in my stash for years waiting for the right project.

The warm version which reminded me of a sunset

I tried some straight line quilting that I learned in Jacquie Gering's class last fall.

Suburbs

"Suburbs", a layer cake quilt by Cluck Cluck Sew patterns, finally got a label today and it's all finished!  I took this project along with me when we rented a trailer up north for a week.  This was probably three, maybe four, years ago already.  I got all the blocks done while on holidays and did assemble them into a top somewhere along the line :-).  It was waiting to be quilted, but I finally decided to send it off to a local long arm quilter who was looking for some quilts to work on.  It is a fairly large lap quilt and I have lots of smaller projects to work on.  Very happy that it's now all finished!  I have started to set aside lap quilts to give to my grand kids when they graduate from grade 12.  My oldest grandson starts High School this year, so I feel really organized to have four quilts finished for that purpose! (Click on the photo for a larger view.)

The beautiful quilting done by Julie Cassidy.

The quilting was done with a variegated King Tut thread.

The finished quilt (my apologies for the crooked photo...I'm a quilter, not a photographer LOL).

I found this backing in a sale bin for $4.99 a yard!  Love it when you find backings for such a good deal :-).  The binding was from my stash as well and happens to be from the same designer as the layer cake.

I love house quilts!