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The many snow days around these parts lately have made staying in to sew the obvious choice.  Perhaps it was the cozy indoor atmosphere, but I found that 3 of my recent projects involved houses.

First was this whimsical, fusible applique birdhouse designed by Amy Bradley.

 This project was started as a group project at my guild.  In the center of the room, we had a big pile of bright and colorful fabrics  that we could choose from to make our houses.  I decided to  throw caution to the wind and just pick out the craziest fabrics I could find.  Even so, you can see by the extra circles in the photo below, that I got picky with choosing just the right fabric for the birdhouse windows:

It still needs to have all the pieces outlined with a buttonhole stitch, but I think that will be good practice for me.  In the meantime, I liked it so much, I had to add a little homeowner bird coming in for a landing.

The second house project that I have been working on is quilting my Hillside Houses quilt.

Just have to do a little background stippling in the sky area at the top and this one is ready to add binding.

The third house project is much more traditional:

This block is the first block in a Mystery quilt-along designed by Kathleen Tracy for her "Small Quilt Lovers" Facebook group.  It was quite a contrast to work with Civil War repros after all the bright colors of the first two quilts, but I do love 'em.