Little Houses

Today I want to talk about this strange little obsession I have with little houses and buildings.  No I'm not into Doll houses, those are too large and most of the concern is the interior and decorating it.   I like mine with clean lines and simple.  Today Craftzine presented me with this image in my e.mail today and I just swooned.  My favorite is the full Cardboard one.

This is an installment of my favorite that I pulled from the Artist's website,  Nina Lindgren

This is a better view of another one by Ana Serrano and the close up below.

 

 This is a Plush representation of Paris and NYC I believe that I had been saving in my inspiration folder.  Unfortunately I don't remember the source for the original image.  One day I am going to make my own version of this for my guest room.

This little house ring has been on my Etsy Favorites forever from J Davis Studio.  It is just simple and modern.

 

Like I said before I'm not much for the interiors of doll houses but if I was this would be the perfect thing. Little cardboard furniture from a book on Etsy.  Which is also from Muiji.

I'm not sure what it is or why I am drawn to such architectural shapes. Even when I do my little personal water color projects I always seem to be enthralled with depicting a skyline or building features.  It is never based off a real city just my little imagination.

Finished Projects - Piecing

Many a turns ago I had a blog post about this pieced quilt type thing I was making to put in our bathroom to cover up the spaces that were our built in shelving spaces.  Very awkward little space directly across from the toilet.  Those were finished shorting after but I never did get the photo posted.  Finally with my new fangled camera I am going around and taking pictures of things to finally post.  It was a little tricky since it is directly across from the toilet in a small bathroom.

 This first one hides our spare toilet paper and trash can. very narrow space, you can probably guage it off the toilet paper roll peeking out.

 This is the full length of the Upper, it hides about 5 shelves of toiletries and random cleaning supplies

Close up of the Top half

 Middle portion of top hanging

*I noticed that I didn't actually talk about Piecing here or the other post.  It is an interesting process it's like knitting compared to crochet for people who sew garments instead of Quilts.  Same medium but different forms.  Piecing is about being exact, absolutely exact.  It's like a puzzle but a little more difficult as you don't have nice blobby shapes that fit perfectly together with their match.  You must be competatnt in keeping everything in order because 1/4" off and you are toast!  Also pressing is highly important to piecing.  Unlike a garment where you can fiddle and fudge some or press it all at the end for the most part (if you aren't tailor obsessed like me) you must press all seams as you are piecing.  I thought it would be easier to make things more random and skewed and work everything else around it, but nope.... would of been easier with a more simple pattern palette. 

One of my awesome books I got for Christmas!

I have several other projects lined up such as chiffon skirts, leather bags, more hand embroidery, exploring millinery techniques and editing some machine embroidery patterns.