KalamaQuilts

I'm making little 3" improv houses out of my Kaffe scraps, so Cute but they are busy and with my bent vision I'd like some suggestions about layout, because when I walk across the room to judge they pile up or disappear entirely or move into waves. do any of these layout do anything for anyone. I have very little yardage if it needs a background, what you see is basically my options.

And Rob knows I'm distressed about world events and this showed up in my happy space this morning Life is good. In my Kintsugi mug

crzypatcher

Love the one on the dark background!! The houses really pop!

zennia

They are cute. I like the light background.l

bearisgray

Maybe alternate each house with a solid color fabric - like a checkerboard -or a comparatively wide sashing between them

Houses are really cute - but the details get lost when they are next to each other

KalamaQuilts

Thank you, I've added some kaffecrazy trees
I've looked at so many images over the years
https://www.google.com/search?sca_es...ih=440&dpr=1.7
and I like them all ways, but I'm not a fan of sashing so if I use some it would be cut at 1". Back to play.

I'm just quilting my Temprature quilt this week, these would be so cute for one of those

WesternWilson

That is a beautiful mug!! Sharing your distress, sending a bigggg hug to a fellow quilter : )

As for the busy....yes the blocks end up super busy. I would suggest a very "solid or reads as solid" sashing to calm things down. For my money even the dark background you have up is too busy and adds more visual confusion.

You could also consider alternating the house blocks with blocks that a complementary ie. what our guild did was a block lotto where you make one house block and one tree block. Putting them together breaks up the repetition and busy-ness in a pleasant way.

Your alternate blocks could also be a simple traditional block in reads as solids...ie a simple nine patch, wonky star. Nothing too complex.

KalamaQuilts

I think I have a suitcase full of leader ender 3" 9 patches but they are really scrappy too. I'll look at them tomorrow
this is how I last left it with a few trees added and 3 layout options.

I also have a little box full of kaffe 1.5" squares, good to the last drop ya know... I could set those in dark strips. Not too sure how much black I have, I used most of it in my dementia III quilt

grma33

how about putting trees in between like one i did
cute houses

QuiltingPandaBear

An observation (that doesn’t answer the question at all, I’m sorry): I think choosing one best background is hard because the house tops aren’t consistent in where the light/dark values are. Sometimes the housetop is dark with light sky, and sometimes the housetop is light with a dark sky.

By contrast, it looks like the house bottoms are consistently dark house on light background. For me, this leads to some visual confusion on reading the houses against the background.

RedGarnet222

My mind keeps seeing them on a hill or ledge. If you think about them like that, I think it would become a little easier to set them. A design wall would help. Maybe a seashore off to the side? With little boats? It just looks so tropical in my mind's eye.