Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Come Trick Or Treat At My Halloween House!

My very latest finish
Come, my pretties, and trick or treat at my Halloween House during the Wicked Blog Hop!  (insert cackling laugh here!)  This is my day to show you into the Wicked Realm of Howl-o-ween ..... Hound Style!

We love Halloween at my house.  And now that we have no daughter at home, we just decorate the porch. This year I will be in Houston at the International Quilt Festival on Halloween.  So Frank will be giving out candy, so don't think you can do tricks at my house and steal my vicious guard hound......

For my Wicked block I thought I would give you a Halloween House.  I love to do paperpiecing and found this wonderful house at FaveQuilts . Wouldn't it be fun to do houses for every holiday?  Hmmm.  You need to print the four pattern pieces before you begin.  If you know how to change the size of the printed pieces you can change the size of the house.  I printed my pieces to end up 8.5 x 8.5 inches unfinished.  



Choose your fabrics to bring out the scariest emotions in your house.  I found this perfect sky in my stash.  




Cut the fabric to cover the area of the sky making sure the fabric extends over the paper by more than a quarter of an inch.  I have an Add A Quarter ruler that helps make sure I have enough seam allowance on my pieces.


Here is the sky and the roof and a chimney.  Deep in my stash, I found bricks for the chimney (she says proudly).

Iron all your seams each time you sew.  This makes it lie flat.  This is what the back looks like, simple seams.

And this is the front side.  Nice and precise.


Here are the window and the door.  I choose some fabrics that I could fussy cut and have this very surprised looking cat.  I guess he is amazed to find that he is sharing his house with bats and a crazy pumpkin man.


Tear the paper off the back and put the roof on the house.  A house needs a roof!  Even the Halloween House!

See how the waxing moon is in the starry sky over the house?  Will you come trick or treating at my Halloween House this year?

McGee the Howl-o-Ween Hound
Watch out for that vicious guard Hound!

Check out the rest of my cronies at the Wicked Blog Hop!


Tuesday, October 30th














66 comments:

  1. Your house is fabulous. I love the fabrics and the cute windows.

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  2. What a great Halloween house, love the spooky occupants!

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  3. Great house! (Love the puppy too!) Thanks for sharing.

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  4. That's a great house! Perfect for Halloween!

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  5. Oooh I love your house that cat fits in the doorway just perfectly doesnt he. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Love your house. I think you're on to something. A christmas house, a spring one, a summer one, a winter one, a fall one.....a Mardi Grass house, an Easter home......I could keep going here! New bloghop?????

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  7. Very nice. I love the way you did the windows and the door.

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  8. Maybe we could have a house exchange or exchange houses. Mmmmm your three hounds and my three high class mutts make perfect Halloween guards!

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  9. Wow, really cute, thanks for sharing!

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  10. That`s just wonderful house!!

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  11. and we like to see your blocks..well done...

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  12. Such a cute house! I can see that being used for a block of the month for each month! Cute!
    hulseybg@gmail.com

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  13. Love that idea - a house for every holiday! blessings, marlene

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  14. A wickedly nice house! It looks haunted inside, or is it the reflections in de windows... creepy! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. Yes, that's such a wicked little house - and cute, too!

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  16. Wicked! I love how your lil goblins are peeking out the windows and door! Great use of fabric!! Barbie in NC B-)

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  17. very cute block...it's always so neat with the windows and doors to peek through,eh...love it

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  18. Wonderfully wicked house! Love the fussy cut cat, pumpkin and bat in the door and windows!

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  19. Your block is fantastic but McGee.. now he is just too darn precious!!

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  20. just printed off the info for the haunted houses
    thankssew much for share & I love how your jack o lanterns are glowing
    in stitches

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  21. I love your scary house!
    Thank you for sharing!

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  22. We love to dress up the house for trick or treat too. The dogs don't love it so much. We finally decided to deck out the garage big time and sit out there and hand out treats and let the dogs hang out in the house so that they don't get all out of sorts and we can all enjoy the holiday. The kids in the neighborhood really enjoy the garage all spooky and flashing with strobe lights the house is all flashing inside with strobe lights and spooky. We have a great time. Your quilty house is fantastic too!

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  23. Love the idea of a house for all seasons. :-) What a fun project to start...

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  24. I love your little haunted house! It's adorable!

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  25. Your haunted house is sew awesome. Thanks for sharing your project
    Britt-Inger in Sweden

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  26. Hi!!! Wonderfully wicked!!! It is too cute!!! Thanks for the fun!!!

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  27. What a great idea--houses for the seasons. Thank you so much for sharing your block!

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  28. Love your Halloween house. That scary cat fabric is perfect too.

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  29. Love the fabric you used for the sky! The moon is in just the right place!

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  30. Scary (happy), no wicked halloween house. .-)
    Thanks for sharing.

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  31. So awesome, I am going to do the house, jumped over to Fav Quilts

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  32. Your house, well, just all of it is so cute. Thank you for sharing and Happy Halloween.

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  33. Thank you for sharing your incredible talent. Wonderful and scary!

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  34. Pumpkin quilt is really cute, love the candy corn border. Cute house!

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  35. Love you darling Halloween house! Thank you for sharing. Sweet guard dog.

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  36. You had the perfect fabrics. Your house came out really cute. I like the idea of a house for every holiday!

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  37. I love your block!! It looks wonderful!!!

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  38. Rosemary B here: fabulous house block. I have never made one of these , I should try it. Yours came out perfect. love your choices of fabrics, just lovely
    Thank you so much for sharing your wicked creativity

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  39. Good tutorial on the house block! Thanks for sharing.

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  40. Love the idea of houses for the season.

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  41. Great idea of a house for every holiday. Your fussy cuts really made this block a winner.

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  42. I don't do paper piecing, but I really like that pattern. It's fun how you could get the cat,bat,and pumpkin in the windows and door. Thanks for sharing and for being in the blog.

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  43. Hahaha!!! I don't think I've ever been referred to as a "crony" before!!! Your block is marvelous -- you did a great job with it!!! :)

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  44. Lovely wicked house project :)
    Good work!

    Take care!

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  45. I love House blocks and yours is great!! Happy Halloween!

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  46. wow thanks, love your wicked house and the quilt too, gorgeous!
    Liebe Grüße
    Bente

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  47. What an adorable but wicked house, thanks for showing us how you put it together.

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  48. Silly me, I thought you wrote Gourd hound! :) Love your little house. The fussy cut pieces add so much.

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  49. Great job! Thanks for sharing!

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  50. Terrific little house. Love the look on the cats face.Thanks for sharing the link. It would be fun to make houses for every holiday/season.

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  51. Simply wonderful house though I'm not too fond of bats, either!! McGee sitting on the porch almost looks like he's stuffed and part of the decorations.

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  52. What a fun block...love your fussy cut pieces...so cute!! TFS

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  53. Awesome house block! Thanks for sharing the link and how you made yours! I love the fabric you selected! Excited to see pic's from quilt market!

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  54. Your house block and fabric choices are wonderful!

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  55. Really great wicked house , love your choice of fabrics!

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  56. Love you Wicked little house block! Too cute!

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  57. Really nice block. Thanks for sharing.

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  58. Very cute house! Thanks for sharing.

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