Building Houses

Here is the design for my latest quilt project, as illustrated using Electric Quilt software. 

This will be my version of Carrie Nelson's pattern "Come On-a My House" from Miss Rosie's Farmhouse Favorites. Here is her original from the book:

I don't want a full size quilt, so I redrafted the house blocks to a smaller size, and edited out the larger stars. In my last post I showed the tree units I had made so far, and this week I started building the houses.  

Each house consists of 36 pieces.  In a weeks time, I have only completed the sewing on 2 houses:

But, I have cut out all the pieces for 3 more:

They only look wonky because they are not yet sewn

 

UPDATE:  Monday.  I finished sewing the 3 houses I had cut out:

I realized it's not the sewing that takes the most time, its the choosing of 6 fabrics that will work together and yet still have enough contrast, and then cutting those fabrics, keeping in mind any directional prints.

 I'm going to take a short break from building houses, and start working on the Sawtooth Stars.

By the way, Carrie Nelson came up with the name of her quilt  (Come On-a My House)  from the song made famous by Rosemary Clooney, but I'm going to call mine just "Saltbox" which is what the style of the  houses remind me of.

Linking to Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts