I Guess I'm Not a Manor House Kind of Gal After All

I have been so focused in the office, you wouldn't even believe it.  Quarterly reports, end of the year reports, w-2's etc. are slowly being chipped off of my list.  Freedom is almost in sight.  Late yesterday afternoon, I decided that what I really needed was a quick little pick-me-up to help me survive the last couple of days in the office.  Something fun could be very, very good.

The manor house minus one chimney!

I was two blocks behind with the Random Sampler QAL and so I decided to try that.  First of all, I quickly vetoed the 16 patch blocks from the previous month.  Nah.  Not doing that right now.  Maybe at the end of the QAL for fill-ins or something.  I wanted FUN.

So, the manor house it was.  Only, somehow I couldn't get the roof to work out properly.  The directions called for laying a shorter rectangle on the corner of the long roof rectangle, sewing on a diagonal and then ironing it back.  I was getting all kinds of funky shaped roofs, but nothing looked remotely right until I came up with this.  Only problem was, I could only fit one chimney on my roof instead of the two the directions called for!

So this is what I have to work with so far....

I think my mind was tweaked from too much paperwork.  Whatever.  I finally just re-worked the top row of piecing to make one chimney look okay.  No way was I going to try the roof thing again!  My block will be a humble abode with cheery lights in the window instead of a fancy lah-de-dah house.  I guess nobody will ever accuse me of trying to be pretentious even with my quilts.*wink

And a few more stray blocks to help round things out.

I also have these larger orphaned half square triangle blocks to work with if I decide they have a place in the final quilt top.  I'm starting to get ideas about what other blocks I'd like to sew too.  Maybe some liberated star blocks and some ocean wave type blocks?  We'll see.  Lots of time left on this project....