Day 13 and 14, two views of a log cabin

Day 14

Day 15

Day 14, Inktense blocks and then quilted with a little applique house.

Day 15. Ok, this is a cheat but a very creative one. It's the same house but viewed for above. At last I'm getting the hang of doing these quickly!

Here is day 14 before quilting. Not a lot of planning went into this. Just quick scribbles.

Day 11, 12 and 13

I've decided that I'm going to make mini-series to speed up the process. These were all made with the same stencil.

Day 11

Day 12

Day 13

My stencil was a die-cut greeting card. Day 11 was made with glue and foil paper. Day 12 was made with an oil pastel. And then on day 13 I decided to go back to the glue idea since I liked that one and use gold leaf instead. My leaf is all different colours which looks like an explosion of fireworks, don't you think?

Stencil and metal leaf

Playing catch up - Day 6, 7, 8 ,9 and 10

Day 6 Birdcage

 This day was a cheat. I thought using a commercial fabric and a very loose interpretation of "house" would give me an easy day. All I had to do was embroider the birdcage! It still took me ages.

Day 7 - Farmyard

 Another cheat. I stuck to machine embroidery this time and it was quicker.

Day 8 - Tiny house

 Tiny house because there's not mushroom inside. Haha. This was a rubbing of a drawing I made on cardboard using hot glue. Imagine a whole village of them!

Day 9 - Foamy house

 This is made by stitching thin foam sheets on to the quilt. I had to handcrank most of it!

Day 10 - Tea bag house

At last, a nice simple house. Took a couple of tea bags and did rubbings of wax crayon on floral net and sequin waste and stitched to the background.

Day 5

Quilting with black thread seems to have become a theme. It wasn't intentional but I'll go with it for now.

I decided to use some fabric I created in a surface design class I ran. The roofs are made from a commercial fabric but all the little houses are made from the fabric on the left below. 

Day 3 and 4

Amatrice

Beach hut

Day 3, I finally managed to see the news and Amatrice was on my mind.

I'm trying to do these mini quilts with the minimum of sketching and editing. I'm finding it difficult to quieten that critical voice in my head and just accept what I produce. It's an interesting process.

OMG! I bought a house.

I went to an auction honestly believing that I didn't have a chance at this property. House prices have been going crazy here in Tauranga - but, after a little negotiating, it's mine!

And here is my Day 2 of the 100 days project. I should have put the sold sticker a bit further up but I'm challenging myself to just go for it and not endlessly plan. The idea is just to make something!

First house

My 100 day project.

... has started.

This is about 5cm squared. The background is a rubbing made with the tools below, then quilted and coloured in. Very simple but maybe I'll get more adventurous as time goes on.

100 days of houses

Yup, I've gone and done it - I've registered for the 100 days project.

http://100daysproject.co.nz/projects/100-days-2016/rona

It all kicks off on the 24th and you have 1 more day to register if you would like to join me. Please join me!!!