From the Vault - House Quilt (Summer Blocks)

"From the Vault" is a series in which I show older quilts I've made.  The House Quilt was made in 2003 and has four rows - one for each season.  That wasn't the intention when I started, but I made so many house blocks that I had to organize them somehow.  We've already looked at the winter blocks and the spring blocks.  Today we'll look at the summer row.

Going from left to right, the swirly black print is the outer border, and the fish in the lake is the first block.   I quilted fish shapes in the water.

Camping in a tent.  There's a "Gone Fishin'" button stuck in the ground in front of the tent entrance.  Two canoe buttons float on the lake.

Kind of a weird, me-not-getting-it-right flying geese block for the pine tree.

Summer means the barn doors are open.  Button cows walk out the door; chicken buttons roost in the open cavities above.

Barns draw insects, and they're flocking around this tree next to the barn.

Fourth of July sky with loop-de-loop quilting.  Large feathers flank the sliding doors, for no logical reason.

This is the bird house.  Maybe that's why the feathers are next door - they flew the coop.  Three bird buttons (purple, pink, green) sit on the house, and quilted birds fly by.  

Outer border on the right means this is the end of the row.

Three seasons, one to go.