Another Housing Development

It seems that I am not the only one building houses these days. Recently I was making arrangements to drop a couple of flimsies off to Roberta to quilt and innocently asked what she had been up to. This beautiful winter quilt showed up in my IN box. Called Winter Village, it is made from a pattern by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. Unlike some of her patterns, there are no templates for this one.

Roberta has long wanted a peaceful, wintery quilt to hang for the months of January and February and landed on this pattern, which she thinks suits perfectly. Her goal was to make it in a variety of greys with just a touch of colour, but nothing that would overpower the quiet winter feeling that she was looking for. I think she aced it!

Blue was a natural choice for her touch of colour so she made one blue house, blue birds and added a few blue berries. She chose fabrics from two Primitive Gatherings lines, Urban Gatherings and Indigo Gatherings. Says Roberta, "The little prints worked so well for the little houses and, other than stitching around the applique, it came together quite quickly."

The applique was done by machine with a blanket stitch. Apparently stitching around the snowflakes was tedious, but not hard - a test of patience, but worth it in the end. And she used the wonderful Let It Snow panto that she used on Jane's Little Trees quilt to quilt it, adding to its soft, snowy feel.

Her goal was have it ready for January 1 and she was delighted to meet it. (A deadline - now there's an idea! I could learn from this girl 😉).

I think that it would make a great square quilt as well.

Her only regret is that because it hangs on the wall there is no opportunity for Miss Ivy to photo bomb it. Not to be put off, Miss Ivy smartly found herself a warm quilt to cuddle into during these cold months. Smart cookie. Apparently she doesn't yet know how to use the TV remote, but she has staff for that....M