House Blocks Catch Up

I had a crazy February that resulted in me falling behind in a lot of my quilting projects. I am starting to get back into the swing of sewing again.

I am part of a 6.5 inch house block swap in a Facebook group. These are my blocks for February and March.

For the February block, my inspiration came from a baby quilt that was a single house made of scrappy blocks, and a roof made of long strips of fabric. So I replicated it in miniature. They are calling them the Minecraft House now.

For the March Block, I had the idea to use a sheer fabric to make a physical representation of the phrase "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." So I free-motioned a pile of stones, and then appliqued the sheer fabric to the block. I'm quite pleased with the end result (even if it doesn't show up well in pictures).

Modern HST Sampler: Blocks 1-6

I have been following along on Blossom Heart Quilts' Modern HST Sampler. I'm loving these. She gave some good instructions on several ways to make the HSTs (Half Square Triangles).  We get a block every other Monday. We are up to 6 blocks right now. I chose to grab fabrics as needed with the idea of trying to see what I could get out of the ones I pulled. I had to make block #3 twice because the first one I made didn't really have much definition because of the fabrics I used. I am really loving these blocks. They have not been too difficult which has made it really easy to keep up.

Go check out all the other fun variations on this over at her linky. My link should be around #66.