Summersville Saturday: Blocks 29 - 32

When I started this project in 2012, it was with the intention of it being a long-term project.  One for 'sitting on the settee and watching telly with no prep required' sewing, but now I've embroidered all the blocks (although I'm behind with blogging about them), I really miss it and am going to have to start thinking about and preparing another long-term hand stitching project to replace it.  I'm slowly catching up with blogging about the squares in this series of weekly posts - I do hope you're not sick to the back teeth of them!

You can find the other posts in the series here: blocks 1 - 4; blocks 5 - 8; blocks 9 - 12; blocks 13 - 16; blocks 17 - 20; blocks 21- 24; blocks 25 - 28.

The squares currently measure 7" square, but will be trimmed to 6.5" square before they're pieced into the quilt top.  I did this so that any ragged edges/fraying could be removed, rather than being in the seam allowance.  As last week's post, all the blocks this week have been embroidered with back stitch which, along with split stitch, seems to work best on these small houses.

When starting block 29, I chose two shades of three colours and embroidered one house in each of those threads (two strands).  I chose two shades of brown and two shades of green for the trees and used one set for the conifers and the other for the deciduous trees.

All the houses in block 30 are in a conservation zone (with its own (small) ancient woodland) and so have to use approved colours for their external paint - the owners clubbed together a bought a job lot of three colours so that costs were reduced and so their houses are identical.

The owners of the houses in block 31 know the owners of the houses in block 30 and thought their 'all in it together' approach to external paint was a good one, so they copied (albeit with brighter paint).  They've also managed to get protection orders for their trees:

The owner of the house in block 32 liked the colours of the houses in block 31, but couldn't find the exact colours they used.  Nor could she afford enough paint to do the whole house, so she just did the roof:

Here's all this week's blocks together:

It's been a week of intermittent sun and Archie was reunited with his favourite wall during one of the longer sunny spells:

I've missed you, Wall.

And on an evening he's been on high alert in case food is going begging:

Did I hear the rustle of a packet of biscuits being opened?  Next door but two, I think you'll find...

Thanks for popping in!