This totally fun house quilt is one I recently realized I had never featured or shared the pattern with you.

Why? I suppose because I was limiting myself in sharing it until I had the pattern written and I hadn’t finished it yet.

So, it’s time to share.

I worked on using as many 2.5” strips as I could in this house block. My goal was really as many of them to be 2.5” strips, so I could almost exclusively pull from those bags.

This top is a 50”x77” top, so a longer, skinnier top than I really wanted.

I actually really like what I did with this one.

I went to town on these beautiful houses. I used lace on the windows just like here in Poland. I also used yellow in some of the windows as if someone was home with the lights on.

I just looked around my sewing room for things to use to doctor this one up.

Naturally when I quilted it, all that lace gave me fits, but I just had to be very careful!

In the end, I’m very pleased. I am so happy with it, I may try it again - maybe a different color scheme.

This puzzle may have been part of my inspiration for the houses in this one. I might try a quilt with these colors - maybe a townhouse quilt? Might be kind of fun to make a larger one with those colors as shown below. I had noticed this puzzle because I watched the International Jigsaw puzzle contest - and this puzzle was part of that - and I thought it would be a fun puzzle to do.

This quilt is part of 2.5” series and I did write up the pattern and get it uploaded. It is here! This is the thing that has been the holdup in my sharing this quilt with you!

And just a reminder, here is my 2.5” strips series so far - These are quilts made from my bags of 2.5” strips primarily - or at least that was the reason I started working on these quilts. Besides using my 2.5” strips for bindings for all those charity quilts, I am trying to make nice quilts with some of them. This is one of my bigger successes, IMO.