February - Twice as Nice bee - houses

For my 'Twice as Nice bee' the February Assignment was Houses.  Not any ol' house but assigned houses.  Oh this stretched my skills by - a TON.

First was the design.  Oh the things that people came up with before was . . . amazing!  Then trying to execute this was something else.

First I thought that paper piecing was the perfect way to go. . so I attempted to make the circular flying geese pattern found at   The Sometimes Crafter blog.  I think this quarter of a block was pretty successful.  Phew.  The thinking involved was a stretch for sure.

So then I thought.. yep this is what I'll do for the post office assignment.

Thankfully I'm smart enough to test this theory.  It just wasn't working out.

Talking with my 11-year old step-daughter she said.. ohhh it's easy just do .. a square and add a triangle and viola.  Okay big sigh - and gotta move on.  Especially with ra-ra's from an 11-year old non-sewer with lots of cool ideas in her head.

Here is what I finally came up with.

The second block - more learning. This one was to complete a car wash block.  Constantly learning - apparently.  I wasn't that keen on hand-stitching the name.  So let's machine stitch it.. well I like it.  So here's what I did for the Car Wash.

So these were for February.  I already have my fabric for the next assignment.  I was good. . I haven't touched a thing until I got these bad boys done.  SOOOOO happy these are done.   Go check out what the other gals came up with .. so much talent in this group.