The House quilt

 I finally completed my house quilt!

Over a year ago I was flying quickly through quilting blogs looking for ideas on a project I was working on.  After a couple of hours I had visited quilting blogs all across America, Australia, England and Norway.  I was just scrolling through looking at photos of quilts and dragging the photos that I liked to my desk top. After I was done wasting all that time, I looked over the photos I had selected and one by one deleted them for one reason or another until I came to this house quilt(photo below). I just LOVED it.  

The more I looked at it, the more I loved it. I decided that I needed to make one exactly like it. I emailed the photo to some friends just to see it and the next thing I knew all 6 of us decided to do it as an exchange.  I am really sick that I have no idea what blog this idea came from. I wish I could email her and tell her how much I love her wonderful original design and ask her forgiveness for completely copying her idea.  If I remember correctly she was American but living outside of the country. 

I think her wording was written with a pen, but I decided to embroider the words on my border. It says "A house divided against itself cannot stand A. Lincoln"

Of course my friend Jackie that did this exchange too, finished her quilt 1st.  She added her own super cool border and did amazing quilting that unfortunately you can't see in this photo. 

One of the other girls in the exchange Kira is living in Philadelphia and sent all of us this super cute label for the back of the liberty bell with all of our names. 

Although this quilt really doesn't go anywhere in our house, it has become one of my favorite quilts of all time.

FYI- The pattern we used for the foundation pieced houses we found here.