Houses and Trees and Stars - Oh, My!

I came across a photo of a quilt I made in 2000 and had published in Quilt Magazine in 2001. It's the result of an AOL quilt bulletin board block swap! Do you remember those? I participated in several.

House Sampler from 2001

You can see my house block in the center, 3 blocks down (it has my old address on it). I made 12 of these for the swap! I can hardly believe I did that! I think they were a uniform 12" x 12", though I have no way to know - I can't find the directions.

I wanted something more than just setting the blocks in a 3 x 4 assembly. I had fun with that border, for sure!

Stars at the top; trees on the sides (with some checkerboards); and mountains on the bottom (sort of hard to see in the photo). I gave this away LONG ago and  can't even remember to who; but I hope it is still bringing joy to them!

My upcoming calendar has a lot of star blocks and a few tree blocks. One of the quilts a calendar owner made with my first perpetual calendar was made with 8" blocks. Simple 6" blocks.

February blocks quilt made by Mary G.

And here's one more quilt made with simple houses and alternate pieced blocks. This was an older Benartex collection that had those words printed on the fabric, so I cut them out and appliquéd them at the top of the quilt. I gave this quilt to my youngest sister when she became a grandmother for the first time 18 years ago.

Sometimes it's just fun to revisit older quilts and try to think: "Now, why did I do that?!"