Honest House Quilt and Pie

Hi Ya'll!
I attended Pepper Cory's lecture on Southern Scrap Quilts while at VQF and wow!  Was it a treat.  I have always admired Pepper for her kind and easy way of speaking about quilts.  And not only because she awarded me a judges choice once :)

 This is the quilt that decided I wanted to make for myself.  I adore all house quilts.

If you have seen my scrap lecture, you'll know that I love to study old scrap quilts.  This one is awesome.  Here is what I learned:

I suspect it was made by several people with some people making multiple matching blocks.

The blue and red all used the same fabric and substituted that blue where needed.

These green and brown print blocks are all sewn the same "different" (not wrong) way.  I guess they had a front stoop.

 The red and black & white stripe houses use the same fabric but 2 have extra large doors with extra red strips.  Maybe 2 people were sewing together and sharing fabrics?

 same fabrics.

 Same fabrics and same challenge with the triangle over the door, I can relate to her!

The piecer forgot the windows were to be the same as the sky and door.  Charming, if you ask me.

 These are all crazy town, so I don't know what's up with them, but maybe they came from different people who didn't live near the others?

As far as layout, they were paired to face each other in the center area.  The top and right row are all facing the same way except one which also had 'custom' windows.

So here are mine so far.  I usually call these kind of quilts "Really Nice Quilt" but Pepper referred to one as an "Honest Quilt"  and I LOVE that!  Do you like my setting plan? 

I drafted my own 10" finished block and I'm paper piecing the roof section because: angles. 

Well, something went wrong here......

Take that perfectionists.😜  I always like anomalies in old quilts, so I did the easiest and quickest fix I could think of. 

I'm trying to keep up with the Whig Rose project.  Only 1 block to go before the borders.

 While at the Pepper Lecture, I was working on this project and Wendy offered to send me some acid yellow.  Yay!!! She sent me loads and I'm using some of them for the houses that don't work for the Whig Rose.  Thank you Wendy!!!

By the way, if you have acid yellow and want to be part of my border plan, I'm taking all sizes from 3" - 10".

I made this Mixed Berry Pie for my visiting girlfriends and we all agreed it was delicious.  Click here for the recipe!  It called for three berries, but I added blackberries too.  No berry left behind.

Okay, I'll leave this post here and come back with sailing and other news next time.

All I can say is "what????" 

Hope you're having a happy summer!

xo