What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Lovely fresh green! That is something we haven’t seen a lot of in the past year, but some parts of the country had rain overnight … probably the clouds which passed over us yesterday and dropped nothing!

My farmer father told me his favourite colour was green … it meant that the crops were growing and there was feed for the sheep. Made sense to me!

The blocks in these designs are all based on the same rather intricate Star block, but with lot of the contrast colours removed or bleached.

In these two designs the outer blocks are similar, but ...

In this project file i am playing with light, medium and dark shades of purple on a white background. he purple could be any other colour, providing they have the contrast in the same places. The lightest of the colour is used in the corners of every block to create a repeat design when the blocks are put together.

With a slight modification the corners become a frame around the medium and dark versions of the colour, as shown in the second design. The second design is my favourite of these two.

The colours used in this series reflects the colours of autumn in central Australia. So far summer has been hot and humid, but after a few days of hot, we are having a couple of days of autumn, no rain over most of the country, but cool breezes and partly cloudy.

My favourite today is the first one, though the second one is rather interesting.

Very neat and tidy design.

In case you are wondering, these block designs, and yesterday’s designs too, are 4 patch blocks, drafted on a 16×16 grid.

The second design is maybe a little too busy.