I have had this house concept in my head for a while now and the paper piecing I did for my last swap encouraged me to give it a try and see how well it would work.
I started with the house rectangle and then found a triangle which would work for the roof. Next I found some blue pieces that I could use for the sky and the floral greenery fabric for the background landscape around the house. I found a pieced length of browns for the foreground. It was a bit short so I added another length of brown brick looking fabric. I started by stitching the sides (greenery to blue sky) to each other and then I stitched them to the house. I positioned the roof over the large sky rectangle and stitch it to the house with the sides. Next, I stitched the brown piece to the pieced one and then stitched this large piece to the bottom of the house rectangle I had just created. I ironed all my seams and then trimmed the whole thing to 6" x 4". I added iron fusible webbing to the back of the roof and ironed it into place added hand stitching to it afterwards. I found a small dark red scrap to use as my front door, added fusible webbing to the back and ironed it into place. I stitched all the way around using black floss, added a yellow half moon window and hand stitch around it with yellow floss. I added a small gold sequin with a large french knot to create the doorknob. I added some hand stitched flowers on either side of the house as well. I stitched batting to my white backer, layered on my front and then stitched all the way around to attached all the layers to each other. I created a chain of single crochet stitches using textured dark green yarn and stitched to the each of my postcard using dark green floss in an over hand stitch. To finish off my postcard I used a small piece of fusible fabric, added my handwritten message using a permanent marker and ironed it into place above the door. Pretty happy with how this one worked out!! Looking forward to trying this design out again with different colours. Therese
