Tiny Houses

Last week my daughter was home on break from college and feeling crafty, so I taught her to paper piece.  It’s my latest attempt to turn her into a quilter and I think it’s working!

We made tiny houses, and I mean TINY, and my daughter handled the bits and pieces like a pro.

Here’s my house pre-embellishment:

The colors for my little house were inspired by this beautiful house in Providence:

 

I just love this house.  Definitely going to have a yellow house someday!

Here’s my daughter’s house:

This color palette is so her.  She loves Halloween and all things spooky.  I never would have thought of making the sky black and the grass burgundy, but I just love it!

After we paper pieced our tiny houses, we embellished them with a bit of simple stitching and popped them into 3″ frames.

Here’s my finished house with window boxes, flowers, and a few seagulls—in my mind this house is on the coast, hence the seagulls.

1. After you piece all of the units, stitch together units E and D (these are the two sections of the first floor of the house) 
2. Stitch unit C to the top of the E/D unit
3. Join a 3/4″ x 1 3/4″ strip of background fabric to either side of the C/E/D unit
4. Stitch unit B to the top of the above unit.
5. Join a 1 1/4″ x 2 3/8″ strip of background fabric to either side of the above unit.
6. Stitch unit A to the top of the above unit.
7. Finally, join a 1 1/4″ x 4 1/8″ grass fabric strip to the bottom of the above unit.