Monday 15 October 2012

Scrap Happy Saturday and playing with Brown

The colour theme for October for the Rainbow Scrappy challenge  is Brown.
I don’t have a lot of brown but I did find enough to cut my 5 inch squares for my D4Ps.. but I haven’t sewn them yet.
However, I did a little catching up on my building houses and made a Teal one and an Orange one.  Here they are followed by a picture of them all together so far.
Orange building houseTeal building house
Building houses_Oct_12
I apologize for the quality of the lighting in the last picture, I took it late in the evening and from this distance it isn’t good.  
Now you may be thinking I’ve already done the brown.. but I haven’t.  That house on the bottom is the one that I did first to try out the pattern.  I still have a proper brown house to do.  And I’ve just noticed that the teal house looks a bit wonky!  Oh well it will do.
Now while I was going through my small selection of brown scraps, I got the idea to play with the 1.5 inch (or there abouts) squares of browns and tans I found in with the brown box.  Most are from those samples you used to get from shops.
Anyhow, I started to like the way they were looking.  I’m not sure what I’ll do with them but they will be there when inspiration strikes.  Here’s a little mock arangement… not quite complete:
Playing with browns_fourpatches
Let’s just call it an idea in progress.  The piece of brown in the middle was a piece I had cut earlier in the day to make my Dear Jane block with.  It was laying around on my table when I was putting up the 4patches onto my small design wall. Hmmm..    That leads us on to my final brown bit.  My Dear Jane block.  H-1 Peek A Boo.
h-1
If you’d like to see what everyone else has been doing with their browns this week then take a look here

9 comments:

  1. Good day! I love brown - one of my favorite quilting colors. What fun your mock arrangement. Fun to design like that, yes? Your houses are just fantastic. And H-1 Peek a Boo is superb!!!

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  2. So cute! I would love to make a house block quilt some day. There are far too many wonderful quilts to ever finish them all. :)

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  3. I like your houses, and as I saw your checkers I thought a house framed in a checkered border would look nice also.
    KATRIN W.

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  4. I love your scrap houses, Elly! So colorful and happy. How large are those blocks?

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  5. Such pretty projects in the makings! Those checkerboards and the chocolate strip would look great in a little pouch like Connie has been making. The houses are looking great. Hmmmm maybe that will be my project next year =).

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  6. Your houses are just darling. I like Katrin's suggestion of using the brown checkboard to frame them... just sounds so pretty.
    Your H-1 Block is fantastic! Your piecing is so precise. Impressive.

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  7. Your little houses are precious! I can't wait to see it finished. So cute!

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  8. I started making these Building Houses from Scrap earlier this year. I love them. Yours look really nice. I have put mine aside for awhile but I will get back to them.

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