Japanese houses, houses from scraps and Rosa

I finished the first block of the Yoko Saito Quilt mystery. This was the first time I used Japanese woven fabric. I was afraid that applique wasn't easy because of the fraying.

But I found a very good tutorial about applique. (here is the tutorial) You iron the freezer templates on the right sight of your fabric and than you glue the seam allowance to the wrong site. It worked perfect even with difficult forms as the bird and the dog(I forgot to pin the dog because I am not quite satisfied with the lower part of this blog.)

And here are my 12 scraphouses, and because we finally had some snow i show them in the snow...

And yes i know there is one door missing I'll repair that, be sure.....

 Here is Rosa, she LOVES snow.