The Love of A Family Makes a House a Home

Recently when my Uncle Wayne was having some health problems, I thought it would be nice to send him a quilt.  After much conspiring with my mom, I picked out a pattern I thought he would like and some fabrics I thought he might appreciate.

He's color blind, so I wanted to stick mostly to grays to force myself to really concentrate on contrast, texture, and pattern more than color. I thought I'd make some little houses.

Little rows of houses.

The piecing was pretty straight forward, but I wanted to do some really special quilting for this project.

I did some pretty basic stuff on the houses themselves.

But then I added a sunrise.

Then I used these sparkle stickers to trace a special message.

Then I used my very fancy free motion sewing machine foot for the very first time to quilt the letters into the border.

Here's the finished quilt!

The back:

And the front:

The love of a family makes a house a home!