I might be interested in doing the house block exchange that Rita mentioned. Edyta Sitar has some strip houses in her book Friendship Strips & Scraps that I have been considering for a long time. However, the Kaffe houses look even easier.

http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.co.uk/ here is an alternative for little houses blocks...

Great quilts Margo & Rita. Just back from a weekend of camping & canoeing and am absolutely knackered! will try & do an update tomorrow... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Annis, I love your quilts and was just about to say "I recognize that quilt hanger" when I saw Marilyn's remark. Marilyn, my brother made it. Annis met him in Houston. You can google their web site http://www.summerskycreations.com He does custom hangers and also has some premade, as you will see on the site.

Annis..Quilts are wonderful, but I want to know about the hanger holding the Log Cabin???? :shock:

Robin, the economy block is a free pattern on Craftsy - 5 1/2 inch block. There's also a paper-pieced download for the same block.

I hung 2 quilts today after sewing on hanging sleeves. The sunflower quilt was started at a quilt guild meeting and finished in 2006 and is at the back door in the laundry room. The twisted log cabin was made in 2008 and is hanging above a desk in my soon to be classroom. I hope to find homes for more quilts soon.



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A house block swap sounds great to me, too! No ideas on how to set it up, though!

Good to "see" you, Geneva, and I'm happy to hear you are moved and somewhat settled. The Venus de Hilo swap sounds quite fun. It would be fun to do something like that. I've been wanted to become involved in some sort of round-robin swap, and I like the idea of fewer rules and more freedom to play, and the mystery of not knowing what's going to come back. A really fun way to use up scraps! I think I missed something, however—what is the economy block?

What beautiful quilts, Margo and Rita! You have both been very productive!

A house block swap would be a lot of fun! Perhaps it could be run like the mug rug exchange? People could just be responsible for arranging their own exchanges. It would be more expensive for postage, but would require no central organization and each individual could decide how many blocks they want to exchange. But we might also need to add deadlines or people might never have their blocks so they can make their quilts.

I'm looking forward to the next Chinese Whispers challenge!!

Wow! What fun to see what everyone is working on! I don't know if you remember but last January I started cutting 8"x8" and 6" x 9" pieces of every batik I had. I sub cut them into squares and triangles to make the economy block. I knew this would take awhile.... about 3 months! Ritzy was right. It hurt my neck and shoulder to do too much. But at least I was playing with fabric. And "packing" it as I went along. There turned out to be over 360 fabrics and I have 2 sets now. So, for a reward for unpacking I sew a couple blocks. It is fun to put the different fabrics together and watch the squares turn out. So far I have around 120 blocks done. They are 5" square. As soon as I get a design wall up, I'll take a picture and post it.

Sherry, yes I have been to the quilt shop in Prosser. It is amazing! That woman is a quilt fabric hoarder, much to our benefit! She has over 10,000 bolts. Fabric is crammed in every nook and cranny. The front part is an old house. There is fabric in the bathroom, kitchen, hallways, everywhere. She built a back building which is crammed with fabric also. I love it!

I love everyone's quilts! They inspire me!

Rita, I like your idea of a swap or something with the house blocks. What size are they?

I am reading the August issue of The Quilt Life. There is an interesting article about Stephanie Serrano who lives in Hilo, Hawaii. http://www.venusdehilo.com. She has a unique Round Robin thing going on. http://www.venusdehilo.com/improvi-robin/ . We could do something similar. But it would cost money for mailing.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I love chatting with you all and enjoy so much hearing/seeing what you are up too!

Take care,

Geneva

It's humbling to see how productive Margo are Rita are with turning out quilts! I think Anne is right, spending time on the computer is a time-eater.

I love all the quilts shown, Rita and Margo what gorgeous quilts, I'm afraid I WASTE too much time playing with the computer.
I must organise spend more time at the sewing machine.
Anne

Wendy, looking forward to the wedding blog and the challenge.

Annis that's massive. I can't quite see your vision but feel your excitement. You must show us this picture again when the features are there.

I think you've all been beavering away enough to make up for me I love your idea Rita those houses can be made as we work on other things, I'm looking forward to how you'll make it work.

My son is now married it was an amazing happy day that went really smoothly I'll do a blog this week to share some pictures then post a challenge on the Chinese Whispers thread for anyone to join in if they want