Home is where your family is :)

It feels so good to have another project finished!

You may remember that back in January

I joined the Tiny Houses from Scraps QAL.

The idea was to make 365 tiny houses from scraps

by hand, 

one each day.

Clearly that didn't happen.

I made 12.......

actually 14 but the first 2 were beyond wonky

so they didn't stand a chance of being on my quilt.

One night while I was trying to sleep

the idea for this design came to me.

I used one little house for each month of the year

and embroidered the names of each family member

and their birthdays in each month.

I couldn't resist using Christmas fabric for the December house :)

I used perle cotton floss to hand quilt around the blocks and 

I made hearts in each of the 4 corners.

I appliqued "Home" and "Family" using a blanket stitch 

around each letter

and giant red rick rack to frame it out.

(I'll admit I have a slight obsession with rick rack)

I backed it in soft yellow Kona 

because it's going to hang on the wall

and I didn't see the point in a snazzy backing.

Now that it's done

I'm trying to decide if I want to paint my living room walls

before I hang this above the couch..........

I'm sure my hubby will be THRILLED 

to hear about my plans!