#AloneTogether in Little Houses Made of Ticky Tacky

 It's a Finish!

60 x 81

540 little houses that finish at 3 inches. 

 I began making the houses back in July 2018. I was inspired by a Quiltmaker Itty Bitty block called Home Sweet Home.  I say inspired because I made my blocks in a different way but they finished at the same size.   I thought it would be a fun way to use some novelty scraps. Then later on it became a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project and I made houses with 2 inch scraps in the color of the month. 

 My working title for the quilt was always Little Houses Made of Ticky Tacky and that was inspired by Pete Seeger:

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes
Little boxes
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

--- Pete Seeger

I added #AloneTogether to the title after the social distancing campaign and mandate to shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.  (Ooops...I forgot to add a label to this quilt with the title. I wouldn't want to forget this time in my history. )

I'll probably put this quilt in my camper. We sometimes have large family reunion camp outs and there are times when there are lots of little kids around. I've found that sometimes an I Spy type quilt is a fun thing to pull out when the kids get restless. With this one I can ask which house they would like to live in and why or have them pick a house and tell me a story about who lives inside. 

 I quilted it on my DSM with little three petaled flowers. 

This is the pieced back. 

 I've had these house fabrics for ages. I've cut into some of them with smaller prints a few times but I never wanted to cut into the ones with the bigger prints. When I started making the Ticky Tacky Houses I put them aside for this backing.  

I even found a 6.5 house in some swapped I Spy Squares that I added in. 

And after I ran out of house fabrics I dug into the travel themed fabrics and pulled out a big print of buildings to fill in. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday