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 I'm happy to finally be sharing my scrappy Snow Village quilt today!

Be prepared for lots of photos!

The timeline for this project was:

I started this project last January, made most of the house blocks at a Christmas in July party last summer, finished the quilt top at a retreat I went to in August, and finally bound it (and added the rest of the embellishments) in December.

The original Snow Village pattern is really simple so I thought it would be nice to add a little pizazz to the blocks with some embellishments!  The above block was ...

 This is my Snow Village quilt pattern.  It's very simple.  All the houses are the same.  And that is not like me.  I usually like scrappy quilts! The whole pattern had been screaming at me for a while to make it scrappy and add some embellishments.

So one day last January I finally tested my idea.  I embroidered some little wreaths on pieces of wool and top-stitched them to the front of a house for "windows".  I added in some little pom poms under the roof and planned on adding a button for a "door knob" on the front ...