This was one of those happy accidents that spring up from time to time. I had been feeling pretty quilted out, so I definitely hadn't been considering making yet another quilt for Dylan's birthday this year. I was actually going to make a Liberty fabric wallet (maybe not the most suitable weight, but we wanted to give it a try), but matters were complicated by the Canada Post strike, which prevented me from being able to order the fabric I needed online. Eventually, I got to thinking about the printable fabric I had, and I wanted to make sort of a gag gift that had printed pictures of his face incorporated into it. I was really into the idea of making patchwork slippers, but my "eureka!" moment came when I thought of pieced houses with photos of him/his family/us in the doors and windows. His sister snuck me these photos, and I had a lot of fun cutting into many precious, previously unused fabrics in order to make this. (Some lovelies I used up big-time include Daiwabo/Junko Matsuda's Brioche Perdue print, which became the sashing; Windham's Storybook VIII pink/blue flowers, which are the small squares between the sashing; Paige Stanley Miller's Bon Vivant map print for the border; and a lovely scrap of Hello Kitty fabric that I received from Ayumi last year. The Hello Kitty fabric is especially awesome since Dylan's birthday quilt from last year is directly themed around Hello Kitty!) My piecing is nowhere near perfect...but I'm over it!