Scandi Village Wall Hanging, 23 1/2 x 36.5 inches

Last November I took a zoom class, officially known as a Playdate, given by Cheryl Arkison as part of hert Quilter’s Playcation series. In the class Cheryl taught us how to make these simple house and tree blocks.

It took me a long time to decide how big to make this project. These blocks are little, about 5 inches tall and varying widths. It would take a whole lot of them to make even a throw and I wasn’t sure I wanted to make dozens of them.

As the Christmas season ended, I realized I had a perfect place to hang it. I had a quilted Advent calendar hanging in my hallway. I used a small wooden dowel threaded through a small sleeve (cloth channel) to display it. The wooden dowel rested on 2 thumbtacks in the wall. Last year I just left the thumbtacks there. Sort of silly to have 2 green thumbtacks in the wall doing nothing for 11 months of the year!

Ah-ha! That was the answer—I decided to give those 2 thumbtacks something to do! They were just calling out for a Scandi-Village wall hanging!

This wall hanging is just the right sized village for me!

We got at least 12 inches of snow last week and a blast of arctic cold this week, so this is the perfect time of year to be enjoying this snowy scene!

Here it is, in situ, keeping those 2 green thumbtacks occupied!