Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

 Lousy weather lately so I put the houses together in rows.  The strips are still loose but so far this placement is good. It went together very quickly because the blocks were all constructed and waiting. 

 I made blocks with people in the doorways, enough for another row if I had added them but I changed my mind on that so this measures eight squares by 8 rows. It won't be big and I will put a border on but that's another day.  I've seen so many variations of the house quilts.  Trees interspersed, sashing here and there, but I kept going back to just the houses.  If all the blocks were the same it would look like a condominium complex.  This looks more like Lowell.  All the houses are different.


I don't name my quilts.  I just say something like, "the pink one"  "the liberty one" " the round sheep" "the crows"   things like that.  I imagine this will be "the houses."

But I almost ALMOST put this one single person in and called the quilt "There's one in every neighborhood." 


But then I decided to be nice.  I put Mr. Rogers in as the one single person in the doorway.  He's on the top row in the center overlooking his neighborhood. 




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